Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Iron Age Gold

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suffolk | Huge Iron Age haul of coins found: "One of the UK's largest hauls of Iron Age gold coins has been found in Suffolk.

The 824 so-called staters were found, using a metal detector, in a broken pottery jar buried in a field near Wickham Market.

Jude Plouviez, of the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, said the coins dated from 40BC to AD15."

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