Here are three highlights from a rare and vast hoard of Iron Age treasures that was recently discovered in England.

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain and demonstrates that the elites of northern Britain were just as powerful as their southern counterparts,” Tom Moore, an Iron Age archeologist at Durham University, said in a statement.

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said.