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Found a 2,000 year old coin spill under a car park in Chester
Last spring I helped on a dig under a old council car park near the Roman walls. We pulled up 47 bronze coins stuck together in a clay lump, likely a dropped pouch. Carbon dating on the leather bits put them around 90 AD, during Agricola's push north. What caught me was one coin had a countermark, a horse head stamp that I've only seen in textbooks. Anyone else stumble on small finds that rewrite what you thought about local trade routes?
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