Astonishing discovery as 3,000-year-old gold treasure unearthed in StaffordshireA £150,000 campaign has been launched to buy the treasure and display it at Hanley's Potteries Museum & Art GalleryView 2 Images The solid gold fastener has been valued at £150,000Rare 3,000-year-old Bronze Age treasure has been discovered in a field in Staffordshire - and now a £150,000 campaign has been launched to keep it in Stoke-on-Trent. ‌The solid gold dress fastener, unearthed by a metal detectorist near Ellastone, between Cheadle and Ashbourne, in 2023, has officially been declared treasure. ‌Now Hanley's Potteries Museum & Art Gallery has until spring 2026 to raise the funds needed to keep it in the area and place it in the public collection. If the appeal succeeds, the fastener will be displayed in the museum’s archaeology galleries and be available for research into prehistoric Staffordshire. If the object is of prehistoric date it will be Treasure provided any part of it is precious metal.