A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot ...

Other insights included the revelation Iron Age craftsmen were capable of using techniques like mercury gilding and "we didn't know they could do this in Britain 2,000 years ago", she said.

In February, 70,000 coins from the Iron Age that were discovered in 2012, set a Guinness World Record for being the largest of its kind discovered in the British Isles.

A haul of Iron Age gold coins discovered in Wales, the first found in the country, has officially been declared treasure. The cache of 15 coins, also known as staters, was unearthed between July ...

But Richard Abdy, curator of Roman and Iron Age coins at the British Museum, did not mince words about his skepticism. “They’ve gone full fantasy,” he told the Guardian.

A "one-of-a-kind" cache of 933 Iron Age gold coins whose finder was convicted of attempted theft is to go on permanent display close to where it was discovered. The Great Baddow Hoard, which was ...

Through further excavation, "Iron Age gold coins of Cunobelin, the king of the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes started appearing," Ridgway said, per the press release.

The Iron Age coins—known as potins due to the copper, tin and lead alloy used to make them—each measure about 1.2 inches in diameter.

Archaeologists discovered 26 coins, including three Roman coins which pre-date the invasion of Britain in AD43, and 20 other gold and silver pieces which are Late Iron Age and thought to belong to ...

The astonishing hoard, which weighs 160 kg (xx lbs) -- as much as two grown men -- is the largest collection of Roman coins found in the UK in a single earthenware pot.