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A "one-of-a-kind" cache of 933 Iron Age gold coins whose finder was convicted of attempted theft is to go on permanent display close to where it was discovered. The Great Baddow Hoard, which was ...
Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country. The 15 coins ...
Iron Age coins are most commonly found in Britain, on pre-Roman settlement sites. Experts say that the staters were not used as currency, but were gifts exchanged between elite members of society.
Finding that coin was a magical moment. George Ridgway (inset) and some of the huge hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins he discovered while metal detecting at a site near his home in Suffolk ...
It is every metal dectorist’s dream – finding gold. That dream came true for a group who discovered a hoard of 15 Iron Age coins containing gold and silver in Wales. The coins were discovered ...
Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...
The 15 coins, known as staters, were found on the Welsh island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of the mainland by three metal detectorists between July 2021 and March 2022. Fifteen gold stater ...