Ancient Gold Coin May Have Fallen From a Lord's Pocket ; Historian Maxwell Craven Sheds Light On a Gold Coin Found by Tv's Time Team at Codnor Castle. Delighted Archaeologists Declined to Give Away Any Details About It - Saving It for Their Tv Audience - but Admitted That It Was Their Best-Ever Find. However, Thanks to Our Photo, Maxwell Can Reveal All and Ponders On Who Could Have Mislaid What Was, in Its Day, Worth Pounds500.

Derby Evening Telegraph › June 27, 2007

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Historian Maxwell Craven sheds light on a gold coin found by TV's Time Team at Codnor Castle. Delighted archaeologists declined to give away any details about it - saving it for their TV audience - but admitted that it was their best-ever find. However, thanks to our photo, Maxwell can reveal all and ponders on who could have mislaid what was, in its day, worth pounds500.

It was fascinating to discover that TV's Time Team had turned up their biggest-ever find at an historical dig in Derbyshire - but disappointing not to discover more about it straight away.

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Ancient Gold Coin May Have Fallen From a Lord's Pocket ; Historian Maxwell Craven Sheds Light On a Gold Coin Found by Tv's Time Team at Codnor Castle. Delighted Archaeologists Declined to Give Away Any Details About It - Saving It for Their Tv Audience - but Admitted That It Was Their Best-Ever Find. However, Thanks to Our Photo, Maxwell Can Reveal All and Ponders On Who Could Have Mislaid What Was, in Its Day, Worth Pounds500.

As the Evening Telegraph reported on June 15, Time Team, led by the ever-eager Tony Robinson, were in Derbyshire excavating at poor, neglected Codnor Castle.

To their delight, they discovered a rare gold coin and the ac...

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