Three Bronze Age arm rings have been discovered by metal detectorists at a site where a new electricity substation could be built, with archaeologists describing the find as "spectacular".

The gold artefacts were found on 23 May in the Blackford area north of Carlisle. Alan Daniels, one of the discoverers, said of the gold torcs: "This is like the holy grail of metal detecting finds."

Campaigners against National Grid's plans for the area say it should be designated a site of archaeologic significance.

Cumberland Council said that decision was up to Historic England, while National Grid said it would consider historical finds in its appraisal of the site.

The series of 10 red horizontal stripes was first found on the wall of a side chamber of Bacon Hole cave in Gower, Swansea, in 1912, before being dismissed years later as a natural phenomenon.

But archaeologists have now used scientific advances to date the rock art to at least 17,100 years ago - also making it the oldest in north-western Europe.

Archaeologist and prehistoric art specialist George Nash said the art could have been used as a "communication system" but that its meaning was something "way beyond our comprehension".

The bones of men, women and infants were uncovered on land at the old Cardigan Memorial Hospital site in Ceredigion, which is being developed by Wales and West Housing Association (WWHA).

According to an archaeological report made for WWHA, a total of 38 skeletons were excavated which are thought to date back to the 12th Century.

Historian Glen Johnson said the site was "large enough and old enough to have potential for further archaeological remains".

A World War Two soldier's silver cigarette case has been found by a metal detectorist 82 years and 370 miles away from where he died.

Stan Drew, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was killed on the Normandy beaches on 24 July 1944, in the months following D-Day.

Yet last month his case was discovered in a field by a metal detectorist in the municipality of Bergeijk in the Netherlands.

Now Filip Krapels hopes to unravel the story and return it to Stan's descendants in Wales.

A metal detecting trip led to the discovery of a Roman silver coin hoard.

Michael Eakers, from Plymouth, and his friend Brian Dixon made the find while searching pasture land at North Huish near South Brent in Devon.

In total, the pair uncovered 97 silver coins and six copper alloy coins, just a few inches below the surface. The coins span more than 200 years of Roman history, from the time of Mark Antony in 32BC to the joint rule of Septimius Severus and Caracalla in the early 3rd Century.

Experts say the hoard was probably buried after AD205 and is likely to be the largest hoard of Roman silver coinage known from Devon in recent times.

The remains of 66 people discovered during flood management work, including a woman whose face was digitally reconstructed, are to be reburied.