The Anglo-Saxons' imitation "demonstrates a desire ... U.K. The pendant imitates a Roman coin called a solidus, a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered numerous gold and silver coins and bronze ... as well as a number of coins, of both Anglo-Saxon and continental currency, support the idea that Rendlesham was also ...

Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan, but after the conversion to Christianity in the AD600s astonishing artwork was made for churches.

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 ...