Treasure hunters unearth 1000-year-old silver coins from Norman Conquest | BBC News

A hoard of 2,584 silver pennies from the time of the Norman Conquest has been bought for £4.3m - making it the highest-value treasure ever found in the UK.

The South West Heritage Trust has bought the "unprecedented" hoard of coins from the Crown.

The metal detectorists who found the coins will split the proceeds with the landowner.

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