Just spotted this on BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-65243814
Good thing.
good.....!
And now convicted - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/two-men-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins-illegally
Good!!!!
BBC report on the story, with a couple of different photos and another attempt to explain historical significance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65401761
And now https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/alfred-the-average-court-case-coins-may-alter-the-view-of-a-king
Quote from: Erpingham on April 27, 2023, 05:35:43 PMBBC report on the story, with a couple of different photos and another attempt to explain historical significance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65401761
Quote from: Duncan Head on April 27, 2023, 08:44:45 PMAnd now https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/alfred-the-average-court-case-coins-may-alter-the-view-of-a-king
Thanks for posting those updates. Sounds like another case of the winners writing the history. The Guardian article comes close to what seems a modern habit of looking for a conspiracy in the evidence, when in truth the world was a dangerous place and so many more different things could have killed you quite randomly than we would not expect now.