December
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/ 2020
Around 47,000 historical finds have been recorded with the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) scheme in 2020. According to finds.org, 6,251 of the lost artifacts were reported during the full lockdown from March to May, at a time when metal detecting was prohibited. Amongst the discoveries is the one in a million newly unearthed hoard of Tudor coins discovered in the garden of a New Forest home in England. Some of the coins feature the initials of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. This, say British Museum coin specialists, raises questions about the marriages of Henry VIII. A Shocking and Very Interesting Hoard The once great British Empire is now a forgotten dream, but the Brits still
