Arthur Shippee forwarded this article found via The Explorator newsletter last week. It's about a coin hoard found by metal detectorists in Scotland.
-Editor
Two men have uncovered what is believed to be the biggest collection of medieval silver coins ever found using metal detectors in Scotland.
Gus Paterson and Derek McLennan, from Ayrshire, made the find in a field at Twynholm, near Kirkcudbright, shortly before Christmas.
After several return visits, their haul now tops 300 coins.
They will show them to local residents before handing them over to the Crown as treasure-trove.
Mr McLennan said they suspected the field would yield something interesting, but were on the verge of giving up when they first made the discovery.
"We had done quite a lot of research and had targeted that particular area and we had searched several fields around it before we stumbled across it," he said.
To read the complete article, see:
Ayrshire treasure hunters uncover Twynholm silver coins
(www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-26030715)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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