And while we were detecting I found a gold Iron Age coin. It was a gold stater of Cunobelin, a king in pre-Roman Britain who died in 41 AD, just before the Roman conquest, and it has a lovely ...

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 ...