[1] It was discovered by Mariusz Stepien, a 44-year-old hobby metal detectorist, and the find was announced on 10 August 2020.
[2][3][4] The hoard was discovered on 21 June 2020 by Mariusz Stepien, a 44-year-old metal detectorist, originally from Poland but resident in Edinburgh, who had been metal-detecting for nine years.
He was detecting with friends in a field near Peebles, Peeblesshire, when he found the first item at around 10am, 60 centimetres (24 in) below ground level.
[2][5] An in-situ Bronze Age hoard:[2][6] Professional archaeologists were contacted before the site had been disturbed, allowing the items to be investigated in context and details of the leatherwork to be recorded.
Bronze Age findings are rare in Scotland, and the artefacts establish a linkage between the people living there 3,000 years ago and tribes in Northern Germany.