Ken Wallace, an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, discovered in Leiecester, England what is now known as the Leicester Hoards. He found in an open field near his house in Leicestershire more than three thousand coins that date to the times between 700 BC and 50 AD, a time which is also known as the Iron Age. This is the largest amount of coins recorded, ever, from one single location in Great Britain. Many archaeological remains have been found in this area, set in amongst the rural communities as well as in the urban areas amongst the homes and businesses and Leicester hotels.

Scientists have traveled the world over to come to these locations and to have the opportunity to make discoveries such as the one Wallace found, basically in his own back yard. Many other discoveries have included a large amount of the bones of pigs, covering the ground like a side walk or a paved area. As well as a helmet of a Roman Calvary guard. The coins that Wallace found were located close to these finds, in the bottom of a pit. The pit’s entrance was elaborately decorated and it is believed that it has religious significance, perhaps a place of offering for an unknown god of the Celtic tradition.

The coins are believed to be from the tribe of Corieltauvi, a tribe which had control over a large part of the Midlands, as well as all of Lincolnshire. They had this control late into the years of the Iron Age. They are made of silver which tends over time to corrode. They were, and are still, housed at the British Museum, where the expert conservationists ensured their stability and studied their origins. This land is rich with evidence of the past history of not only the United Kingdom, but of the rest of humanity as well.

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