The beeping sounds of a metal detector in a quiet English field led seven hobbyists to a discovery that would change their ...

According to South West Heritage Trust, the body that acquired them, the coins date from around 1066-1068, spanning one of ...

The treasure was purchased for a whopping $5.6 million. The coins feature depictions of rulers from the time, split nearly ...

British Museum In early 2019, seven metal detectorists found a cache of 2,584 coins dating to the Norman Conquest in southern England. Now, the nearly 1,000-year-old silver pennies have sold for $ ...

A group of metal detectorists uncovered an extraordinary hoard of 2,584 ancient coins in a Somerset field valued at ...

Valued at 4.3 million pounds ($5.6 million) and now bound for a museum, they will help shed light on the turbulent aftermath ...

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 ...

French artist Hélène Delprat has been selected to create an addition to the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman ...

This is known as the Norman Conquest. The Normans, or 'North-men', were originally Vikings who settled in northern France in AD900. Edward 'the Confessor' was an important Anglo-Saxon king.

spanning one of the most turbulent periods in English history as the country was successfully invaded for the last time during the Norman Conquest. One coin, the oldest in the hoard, depicts King ...