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Norman coin hoard becomes England’s most valuable treasure – it could have been worth a lot more

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par Chloe Duckworth, Reader in Archaeological Science & Public Engagement, Newcastle University

There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England. A close-up shot captures someone pulling silver coin after silver coin from the churned earth as a woman laughs “there’s pennies everywhere.” The video accompanied news reports in 2019 of the monumental find by seven detectorists of a hoard of silver coins dating from the time of the Norman conquest in the 11th century.

The hoard has just been purchased for a…

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