Thanks for all the emails saying how fascinated you all were reading the story about the Burton Hoard. Over the years there have been many thousands of hoards found in the UK and I will endeavour to share some of the stories and pictures associated with them.
The next story refers to a hoard from by metal detectorists in 2003. In total the hoard contained no less than 464 silver coins, plus 24 ingots (whole and cut), a rounded globule of silver and a plaited arm ring. The coins are as follows: Anglo-Saxon pennies (Aethelred II and Cnut) = 80; Hiberno-Scandinavian pennies = 324, plus one cut halfpenny; 'Irish Sea' imitation pennies of Cnut's quatrefoil type = 11; Hiberno- Scandinavian/Manx transitional pennies = 30. Before the discovery of the Glenfaba hoard only about one dozen examples of the last type were known to exist.
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