A hoard of three Iron Age gold staters found in the Winchester area, by metal-detectorist Kevan Halls

Hoard of three gold staters

Iron Age, 75BC-45BC

Found, using a metal detector, in the Winchester area

These three uninscribed Iron Age coins of broadly similar date are of types produced or used in the south-east of Britain. They are likely to have been deposited for ritual or religious purposes, perhaps, on the site of a sacred grove or other feature in the landscape. Religious sites are common locations for coin deposits from the pre-Roman Iron Age.

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