Medieval History
Two friends who uncovered a huge haul of 14th century coins worth up to £50,000 in a farmer?s field in Corringham have promised to split their jackpot find.
Brian Smyth, 65, from Rayleigh, and Nick Rowntree, 57, from Rochford, have been metal detecting for a combined half a century but declared their most recent find as their biggest ever on Friday.
The pair discovered the medieval ?piggy bank? containing almost the whole range of English currency circulating in the late 1300?s, including a substantial number of large gold and silver coins, whilst out on their weekly Sunday morning treasure hunt.
Click here to read the article from The Enquirer
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Medieval History
Medieval coin haul worth thousands dug up in Corringham
Two friends who uncovered a huge haul of 14th century coins worth up to £50,000 in a farmer?s field in Corringham have promised to split their jackpot find.
Brian Smyth, 65, from Rayleigh, and Nick Rowntree, 57, from Rochford, have been metal detecting for a combined half a century but declared their most recent find as their biggest ever on Friday.
The pair discovered the medieval ?piggy bank? containing almost the whole range of English currency circulating in the late 1300?s, including a substantial number of large gold and silver coins, whilst out on their weekly Sunday morning treasure hunt.
Click here to read the article from The Enquirer
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A hoard of more than 300 medieval silver coins unearthed in a Maryport garden has been declared as treasure. The find was uncovered in the foundations of an old wall by workers using a digger at the property in Ellenborough. The bulk of them are silver...
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A metal detector enthusiast has found a major hoard of Viking silver in a field on the Cumbria-Lancashire border. Darren Webster, from Carnforth, uncovered more than 200 silver pieces including ornate bracelets, coins and ingots in a lead pot. He said...
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Britain?s Portable Antiquities Scheme announced this week details about two recent discoveries of Roman coin hoards. One involved the find of more than 9000 coins that was discovered in August 2009 by a novice metal detector user in the Shrewsbury area....
- Viking Silver Coin Hoard Discovered In Northern England
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