In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard of Iron Age Celtic coins, and which may be worth up to £ 10 M, after a search spanning 30 years.

* 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1, 500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

* Anglo-Saxon gold hoard September 2009: largest ever hoard officially declared treasure

The estimates are tied directly to Smaug's size and the assumption that he lies directly on the largest part of his hoard.

This hoard is the largest Viking treasure trove found so far in Scotland.

In April 2010 a large hoard of coins was unearthed near Frome, Somerset, United Kingdom, which includes the largest group of coins issued during Carausius ' reign ever found ; 760 coins from his reign were found in a group of 52, 500 Roman coins that also included 5 rare silver denarii.

This was the largest hoard of Roman gold coins ever discovered in Britain.

In 2009 the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found south west of Lichfield.

There may have been a pre-Roman coin mint here, since the largest hoard of coin pellet moulds ever found in Europe was excavated here.

Known as the Staffordshire Hoard, it is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold yet found.

They were originally best known for minor contributions to early fictional narrative film and Boer War dramatisation films, but the discovery in 1994 of a hoard of film negatives led to restoration of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection, the largest surviving collection of early non-fiction actuality films in the world.

The hoard was thought to have been stored in a wooden box and consisted of the corroded remains of a number of items but the largest was this helmet.

In 1998 a hoard of 9, 238 silver denarii ( the second largest hoard ever found from the Roman Empire, and the largest in the United Kingdom ) was discovered in the remains of a previously unknown Roman villa near Shapwick.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Morita's family invested in Sony during the early period and was the largest shareholder.

Ulu Cami is the largest mosque in Bursa and a landmark of early Ottoman architecture, which carried many elements from the Seljuk architecture.

The Makgadikgadi has been established as an early habitation area for primitive man ; This large seasonal wetland is composed of several large component pans, the largest being Nwetwe Pan, Sua Pan and Nxai Pan.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.

During the early 20th century, comic strips were widely associated with publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers had the largest circulation of strips in the United States.

This plant, with 15 independent anaerobic digestors will be the world's largest composting facility once fully operational in early 2011 and forms part of the Qatar Domestic Solid Waste Management Center, the largest integrated waste management complex in the Middle East.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

The site is publicly accessible. Alos known as Although one of the largest kofun monuments in Japan, archaeological investigations in 1962 – 1963 indicate that it was constructed in the early 5th century, and that portions of it were destroyed during the construction of Heijo-kyō, calling into question the designation by the Imperial Household Agency.

* 1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history ; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25, 1942.

These largest lakes resemble the others in shape, which collectively reminded early map-makers of human fingers.

The largest other cities are Kalisz to the south-east ( population c. 108, 000 ), Konin to the east ( c. 80, 000 ), Piła to the north ( c. 75, 000 ), Ostrów Wielkopolski to the south-east ( c. 72, 000 ), Gniezno ( an early capital of Poland ) to the north-east ( c. 70, 000 ), and Leszno to the south ( c. 64, 000 ).

Hilter was well known for the " Hilter Gold " ( oranga ) as well as its big margarine factory which owned one of the largest whaling navy in the early 20th century.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

In early 1995, Askar Akayev, the then President of Kyrgyzstan, attempted to sell Russian companies controlling shares in the republic's twenty-nine largest industrial plants, an offer that Russia refused.

Baldwin Locomotive Works became the world's largest by the early 1900s and built the most powerful steam locos in history.

Mustelids are diverse and the largest family in the order Carnivora, at least partly because in the past it has been a catch-all category for many early or poorly differentiated taxa.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

It is a reworking of an unfinished novel he tried writing twice in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and at 1, 074 pages, it is the largest novel he has written since 1986's It.

The largest Shia sect in the early 21st century is the Ithna ashariyya, commonly referred to in English as the Twelvers, while smaller branches include the Ismaili (" Seveners ") and Zaidi (" Fivers ").

Pictish sculptured stones at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum | Meigle MuseumPictish remains are in abundance in this part of Scotland and one of the largest collections of Pictish sculptured stones is housed 5 miles to the East of the town at the Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum.

Portmahomack is the site of the first confirmed Pictish monastery and the subject between 1994 and 2007 of one of the largest archaeological investigations in Scotland ( see link to Tarbat Discovery Programme ) directed by Martin Carver ( 1941-).

It is the largest surviving Pictish stone of its type in Scotland.

The Ethnographic Museum hosts the largest collection of ethnographic artifacts in the country which includes costumes, pottery, lace, metalwork, woodcarving and paintings.

The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the British Museum, Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, is amongst the largest in the Western world.