A hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies, whose owner may have ... It is thought the coins, discovered near Braintree in Essex, were buried in 1066, the year of the battle between English and Norman ...

A hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies that was found by two metal detectorists has sold at auction for £325,560. It is thought the coins, discovered near Braintree in Essex, were buried in 1066 ...

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

An armed robber forced his way in to the home of a man in Essex early on Wednesday and stole a collection of 170 Roman coins. The attack happened in Blenheim Close, Braintree, just after 04:05 BST ...

Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king.

"The hoard was found at the junction of two early medieval field boundary ditches, a location which hints at deliberate concealment," the organization described. "The coins were carefully placed ...

The hoard probably belonged to a member of York's powerful Viking elite. The dates of the later coins show that the hoard was buried after the Anglo Saxon king ... Some of our early discoveries ...

were each jailed for five years and two months after trying to sell 44 rare Anglo-Saxon coins worth £766,000. The coins were thought to be part of the hoard uncovered in Herefordshire by George ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort. The team unearthed 141 ...