"The latest coins were minted in the autumn of 1642, the beginning of the English Civil War and just prior to the Battle of Aylesbury, which took place a few miles away at Holman's Bridge.

Coins found by a metal detectorist which were minted in Oxford during the English Civil War are now up for auction. Steve Hickman, 59, bought a secondhand metal detector from eBay after watching ...

The latest coins were minted in the autumn of 1642, the beginning of the English Civil War and just prior to the Battle of Aylesbury, which took place a few miles away at Holman's Bridge.

Why change it if it ain’t broke?” we often complain. Our banknotes are beginning to fall into an even more undesirable ...

READ MORE: Detectorist finds English Civil War coins from Oxford If they do, they are guaranteed a warm welcome in one of the city's oldest pubs, which is run by Nicholson's.

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'The latest coins were minted in the autumn of 1642, the beginning of the English Civil War and just prior to the Battle of Aylesbury, which took place a few miles away at Holman's Bridge.

In total, there were 1,064 coins spanning the reigns of Elizabeth I in the 1560s to Charles I in the 1640s. The latest coins had been minted a few months before the Battle of Aylesbury during the ...

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Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was repurposed in the 17th and 18th centuries as part of the Industrial ...

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...