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Title: Rare 8th Century coin find in Faversham
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 14, 2017, 07:49:59 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4499350/Rare-Anglo-Saxon-penny-car-salesman.html

just to give Tim a giggle as my *favourite online resource comes up with another news story....

if nothing else, it has given me a prompt to look up the Battle of Otford and the period of Mercian expansion

(* not really ;))

Title: Re: Rare 8th Century coin find in Faversham
Post by: Tim on May 14, 2017, 08:02:34 AM

Holly

Thanks. Battle of Otford is a new one for me too.

However are you sure that this is the Mail site - could be the Grauniad give that it refers to Kent being ruled by 'two kinds'...?

Title: Re: Rare 8th Century coin find in Faversham
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 14, 2017, 08:27:42 AM

hmmm...much to ponder my padawan friend

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