A hoard of early medieval gold coins discovered by two people with metal detectors is the largest of its kind ever found in England, reports Nadia Khomami for the Guardian. Buried in what is now West ...

The coins are currently being analyzed by experts at the British Museum Pippa Pearce/© The Trustees of the British Museum Shortly after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, a wealthy local buried a trove ...

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, a hoard of coins was discovered in eastern England during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project by Andrew Pegg of Oxford Cotswold ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

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New quarantine hobbies have unearthed new passions, some bringing with them a literal silver lining. This year, backyard archaeologists in the United Kingdom have recorded discoveries of more than ...