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A hoard of coins dating back to the 11th century has been found at the site of a future nuclear power station. ... Damian Leydon, site delivery director at Sizewell C, said the find was ...
A hoard of early medieval coins, dating back to the 11th century, were recently found at a nuclear construction site called Sizewell C in Suffolk, England. ... The coins were found at the Sizewell ...
A large number of hoards associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC, have been found in Great Britain.Most of these hoards comprise bronze tools and weapons such as axeheads, chisels, spearheads and knives, and in many cases may be founder's hoards buried with the intention of recovery at a later date for use in casting new bronze items.
Sizewell C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Suffolk, England. [3] The project was proposed by a consortium of EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Group, who at the time owned 80% and 20% of the project respectively.
The hoard consists of 1368 gold and silver coins dated to the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. [1] The earliest coin in the hoard is a silver Roman Republican denarius minted in 157 BC, while the latest is an early imperia l denarius of Nero minted in AD 55.
The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now England’s most valuable treasure find, revealing new information about the historical transition following the Norman Conquest.
SP 1: James D.A. Thompson, Inventory of British Coin Hoards A.D. 600-1500 (1956), 165 pp., 24 plates. SP 2: G. Kenneth Jenkins and Richard W.B. Lewis, Carthaginian ...
A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($5.6 million) by ...