the south-west of England found a great kolikkokätkö is the studies revealed that tax evasion not only this day of the crime. Silver hips is the age of almost a thousand years.

Last January, the metal detector beeped promising, when somersetiläinen the couple presented their devices to the use of their friends. Already one of the Chew’n the valley pastures found the silver coin got the seekers joys himself, but piippailu continue.

Five hours after excavation coins was found 2 528.

the Treasure ended up for examination in the British museum of (you move to another service), which stated that there were three “mules”. It means a coin, with heads and tails on the side are not the same pair. Mule it is in the same sense as a donkey and horse common descendants.

the Tax evaders used the old mold

the Cache is from the heart of the middle ages at the beginning, when the English had ended up in a norman power. Hastings, the famous year 1066 the battle had been only a few years earlier, the last anglosaksi the king had fallen, but the normans took another three years of power consolidation.

the foaming conditions of the property harboring was reasonable, said the British Museum curator Gareth Williams .

William the conqueror, i.e. William I deposed in Hastings Harold II . Two mules one side of the coin is Harold’s time and another Wilhelm. The third picture is Harold’s predecessor, Edward the Confessor , but tails is Wilhelm early.

the money hit the seller had to pay tax on the new coins from the molds. Scam, you the tax of the half, if used only as new molds and trusted that old to avoid that the coin on the reverse side.

the risk of getting caught is not likely to be enormous, not most contemporaries couldn’t read and barely were very well informed about either the current king of potretista. A few half-counterfeiting seems, therefore, slip also Chew’n the valley of the cache owner over the eyes.

caught is not worth the stay, as money forger was punished by chopping off his hand.

Such dream was always, and now here it is, described metal exploration 15 years indulged the couple to find their stash. Pippa Pearce / The Trustees of the British museum the norman conquest revolutionized the English

the English after the capture of the norman elite ousted anglosaksi elite, to take over the countries and build your own architecture under their own castles to safeguard their interests.

the New host has developed even further also the manor economy, which bound the peasantry to the nobility of the manor of serfs or rent farming. Cities, in turn, a strong increase of the trade in Mainland Europe. England began to be shipped to, inter alia, large amounts of wool.

Culturally English take the French seat of the country, which is still reflected in the English language, so in the structure than in the glossary. Although the transfer of population from the continent was not, the French influence was so strong that it began to show even an illiterate rural population in the language.

Williams told historians kiistelleen a long time about the extent to which English society changed as soon as the norman conquest after, and on the other hand, in the longer term.

– Preserved historical sources focus on general society to the upper floors, and the coins are also value – and political symbols of power. But they used so the rich than the poor, so they help to understand how norman power brought about by the changes influenced the whole society, Williams said.

Enemy William and Harold. Pippa Pearce / The Trustees of the British museum a spelling error is a sign of change

Chew’n valley coin stash a bit more than half is Wilhelm early money, less than half of Harold’s. Previously has been found in total only half of the same number of Harold’s early coins. Wilhelm the reign of the earlier number of coins as much as fivefold this discovery.

a Large part of Harold’s coins were minted Sussex county and in south-west England, suggesting that the area be prepared financially for the normans to attack.

his Own story to tell William-coins typos. Norman rahasepät do not seem yet to have been very knowledgeable about a conquered country’s language, from old English.

Kätkijä was likely a landowner and time of a small power elite member. For one reason or another he never picked up the property. Maybe he died, maybe not just anymore found the stash of.

the depths of the Earth remaining amount would be the researchers ‘ calculations, according to purchased for five hundred sheep, or a hired army, depending on the need.

Fixed 18.9. at 9.05: Cache found south-west of England, not kaakosya.

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