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The recovery of 44 Anglo-Saxon coins that were hawked on the international black market has helped reshape historians' understanding of English history. As two men are convicted of conspiring to ...
Test yourself on your knowledge of Anglo-Saxon coins. Find out more about Anglo-Saxon money by taking the Conquest of Wessex Kings History Trail. Search term: BBC ...
They are said to be the first coins made and used in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and predate the first gold coinage made in Anglo-Saxon England. The find is one of only eight hoards of ...
The new coins would carry a new design so there ... Born and educated in Manchester, Michael did postgraduate research on Anglo-Saxon history at Oxford. Since then he has made over 60 documentary ...
Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.
The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery ... Hannah holds a Master's degree in the history of art and archaeology from New York University's Institute of Fine ...
A hoard of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon coins discovered by two metal detectorists in a field near Braintree, Essex, is headed to auction at Noonans Mayfair on February 21. Believed to have been ...
Two metal detectorists have been found guilty of hatching an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon ... of English history. They included two extremely rare examples of two-headed coins, showing Alfred ...
This week, uncover a stash of gold with murky origins, witness a cosmic joust, see why ancient fish are to thank for our ...