The medieval Chinese coin discovered in England
Hello everyone in 2021 ! 😊I hope you are doing well and are ready for new archaeological curiosities! Today I’d like to finally leave 2020 behind and share with you a fresh discovery from the beginning of this year🎉 Just in early January, an English detectorist made a surprising discovery: he found an ancient Chinese coin on the territory of Hampshire . After careful examination of this 25mm copper alloy coin, archaeologists concluded that it dates back from the Northern Song Dynasty , that means from the early 11th century. Interestingly, this is not the first Chinese coin found in England. The first one was found in Cheshire in 2018, but according to archaeologists that one comes from a bit later period of the Chinese Empire. This discovery could be truly surprising given that the scientific evidence indicates that Chinese travelers didn’t reach Europe until the 13th / 14th century . However, as Dr. Caitlin Green (archaeologist, historian, author of many books and articles on Late ...