Archaeologist Stunned to Unearth Anglo-Saxon Coin Hoard in Mint Condition From a Construction Site England's history is marked by countless conflicts and a succession of rulers from various lineages.

His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian emperor. Yet the pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a clearly Christian coin. Related: Roman coin trove discovered on Mediterranean island may have been hidden ...

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This beautiful copper alloy scales set was found in an Anglo Saxon grave of a young man who died around AD 520 - 70, and was buried in Watchfield, Oxfordshire. The weights are made from old coins ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England. Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

Coins, silver objects cut up for scrap metal ... or Viking times—have been found in the soil. In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed a dragon guarding "dazzling spoils ...

The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert. Archaeologists found the remains of a ditch, indicating where Oxford's defences originally stood.

One of the most famous Anglo-Saxon kings was Alfred, one of the only kings in British history to be called 'Great'. His father was king of Wessex, but by the end of Alfred's reign his coins ...