Experts previously thought the first Scottish coins were minted in England, but this penny came from Edinburgh. National ...

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A metal detectorist uncovered Scotland’s earliest known coin, shedding light on 12th-century minting during King David I’s ...

The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.

But the coin found by the metal detectorist bears an inscription showing it was minted in Edinburgh. Alice Blackwell, senior ...

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An almost complete battle trumpet dating back around 2,000 years to the Iron Age has been unearthed by in England.

University of Aberdeen excavations in the hills of Bennachie are revealing the daily struggles of an unusual 19th-century peasant community.(Jeff Oliver, University of Aberdeen) It had to have been ...