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Digging up the past
Wounded service personnel have helped archaeologists make a historical discovery in a British cave.
An excavation at Reynard’s Kitchen Cave in Derbyshire has unearthed a puzzling discovery. A team of archaeologists, which included injured service personnel, have discovered a hoard of Late Iron Age and Roman Republican coins. This is the first time these 2 origins have been found buried together in a cave in Britain.
Coin hoards of this era have previously been found in other locations in Britain, but never before in caves, which adds to the mystery of the discovery.
People hoarded objects they felt were of great value and coins tended to be symbols of power and status in the Late Iron Age. The cave may have been seen as a safe place to temporarily hide the coins so that the hoarder could come back and reclaim them.
