A hoard of gold coins has been unearthed in a Hackney garden (a month too late for Talk Like A Pirate Day, alas). There’s an unusual twist. The coins are not some Roman or Anglo Saxon treasure, but booty from the USA. The currency was …
125. Harassed by a ghost Richard Clarke was a farm worker in Northamptonshire. For several years, since living at the property he was pestered by a spook. Its demands, appearances and gestures tired the labourer, who, at the request of his wife, decided finally to …
97.The Thief Among The Dead Beneath the streets of London exist many corpse-inhabited pits in which thousands of victims of the plague were unceremoniously buried. One eerie incident connected with the coming of the plague took place during the extraordinarily hot June of 1665. As …
One of the greatest Roman hoards ever found in the city is revealed today. Archaeologists working on a site near Moorgate have unearthed 1100 objects of ‘international importance’. The haul includes copper tableware, the ‘large-scale remains of an entire Roman streetscape’ plus ‘the most complete …
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