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Treasure trove

This remarkable collection of coins

and golden artefacts, found in an

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has been declared the largest hoard

of Anglo-Saxon gold coins unearthed

in England to date.

The hoard comprises 131 coins,

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artefacts thought to be fragments

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a period of almost

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items to be par t of the same hoard,

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the famous ship burial from Sutton

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of the Sutton Hoo burial, it contains

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it is the largest coin hoard of the

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to transform our understanding

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