Ancient and rare British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Dutch field
Ancient and rare British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Dutch field - The 44 gold coins were unearthed by ...
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Metal Detectorists Find Rare 1st Century Coins; First of Its Kind to Be Unearthed From the European Mainland
Metal Detectorists Find Rare 1st Century Coins; First of Its Kind to Be Unearthed From the European Mainland Two metal ...
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Two Metal Detectorists in the Netherlands Stumbled Onto Hundreds of Looted Coins From the Roman Conquest of Britain
The 404 coins, including 44 from Britain, are believed to be a mix of military pay and the spoils of war, stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent ...
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Roman Britain
An army of four legions and approximately 20,000 auxiliaries, commanded by senator Aulus Plautius, landed at Richborough, Kent. The Romans met a large army of Britons, under the Catuvellauni kings ...
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Thinking about the Roman Empire: Five things you may not know about the Roman conquest of Britain
So it was left to Claudius to finish the job, and a century later he sent an army of 40,000 professional soldiers under the command of Aulus Plautius back to British shores. This time the Romans ...
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Ancient and rare British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Dutch field
The “wide chronological range” of the coins suggest they were taken as spoils from the early Roman conquest of Britain under the general Aulus Plautius between AD43-47, the museum added.