Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring ...
"I then found a Roman coin and another with my pinpointer in the same hole." Dunn said that he was "so excited" that he immediately alerted the farmer who owned the land and started digging.
Many of these are featured in the Castleford Museum collection, which also includes Roman coins found in Castleford during excavations in the 1980s. Some of the earliest coins were made of bronze ...
Coin moulds which were used for counterfeiting money during Roman times are to go on display in a West Yorkshire museum. The moulds were discovered at Ackton Meadows in Castleford and are thought to ...
Roman coin moulds have been found in the area before, according to Wakefield Council. More than 300 moulds, dated to around AD238, were found at Lingwell near Wakefield between 1695 and 1830.
"Something told me to go to that field. I wasn't expecting much, but then it just snowballed." English contractor David Dunn ...
U sing his metal detector, he picked up a faint signal and uncovered two Roman coins. When the farmer who owned the land joined him to dig further, they found dozens more, all within a small 4m² ...
A Celtic gold coin discovered in a field in Berkshire is set to be auctioned with a start price of £70,000. Stanley Gibbons ...
A hoard of 1,368 coins ... Roman Empire, according to the statement. This raises a question of whether battles or conflicts in the area might have prompted its owner to hide it. The hoard was ...