British Iron Age coins were influenced by coins made by tribes on the continent which were themselves copies of Greek coins. The head of Apollo wearing a laurel wreath has become a stylised wreath ...

More than a decade ago, metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles unearthed what proved to be the world's largest Iron Age Celtic hoard. They found 70,000 silver coins, 11 gold torques (neck ...

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 ...

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 ...