A "very unusual" gold pendant made by an early Anglo-Saxon in imitation of a Roman coin has been discovered by a detectorist. The replica is a copy of a solidus coin showing the emperor Honorius ...

"We see Roman gold coins being repurposed as pendants ... Despite being pagans at the time, the Anglo-Saxons showed a keen interest in Roman imagery, including Christian symbols such as the ...

Gold jewellery, silver ingots and hundreds of coins were buried ... the duo put the multi-million-pound Anglo-Saxon treasure ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund ... whose later imperial currency had been based on the solidus, a solid gold coin. Imperial gold had fallen to the Germanic tribes as plunder ...

Experts from Littlehampton Museum believe the small gold plate may have been decoration on a sword. The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert.

both in the Anglo-Saxon era and in the modern world, with a hoard of hidden coins at the centre of the case. Valuable as those coins were at the time they were buried for safe keeping, possibly by ...

BBC Cymru Wales launches new eight-part podcast 10 years on from the Viking treasure hoard discovered in Herefordshire ...