It was a humbling moment. Another thought is that it might have been a communal burial of the coins by an Iron Age community, perhaps as an offering to the gods, or trying to ward off the Roman ...

Inscriptions on Iron Age coins are the first evidence of writing in Britain.This gold stater coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton ...

A hoard of Iron Age gold coins have been discovered for the first time in Wales. The fifteen coins, known as staters, were officially declared treasure this week by the senior coroner for north Wales.

helmets from Iron Age pre-Roman Britain ... you wear them on your body [while] coins are mutually indistinguishable. You can give them to lots of people and they can be scattered and brought ...

These inscriptions suggest a growing level of literacy and familiarity with Latin. No Iron Age coins were produced in northern England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland. The settlements known as 'oppida ...