A treasure hunter unearthed a silver coin minted during the reign of Guthrum, a Viking commander of eastern England.
The area where the coins were discovered was a site from which the Romans had prepared for first crossing to Britain. open image in gallery Last year, dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking silver ...
For Weale, finding the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain was the pinnacle of decades of hunting with his metal detector in the fields and forests near his home in eastern England.
An early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain, is ...
Last year, amateur archaeologists managed to find dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking silver coins, dating from AD 1000 to 1065, on the Isle of Man. The majority were minted during the reign of Edward ...
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With metal detectors and patience, amateur treasure hunters unearth pieces of British historyCopyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Malcolm Weale was in a farmer’s field with his metal detector when ...
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