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Iron Age coin depicting warlord Caratacus set to fetch £30,000 at auction

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A 2,000-year-old Iron Age coin depicting Britain’s first ever freedom fighter is set to become one of the most expensive ever sold. Described as the ‘most important single Iron Age coin ever found in this country’, the coin depicts the leader Caratacus, who resisted the Roman invasion in 43AD. It was minted in Hampshire shortly … Read more

Crucifix confirmed to be El Cid’s, the famous medieval warlord

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Crucifix carried into battle by Spain’s 11th century warlord hero El Cid is found hanging in Spanish cathedral Span’s national icon was famously depicted by Charlton Heston in the 1961 film El Cid is a ‘subject of a devotion that transcends that of an epic Hispanic hero’ His tomb was raided in 1800s, scattering his … Read more