Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History. This is a very exciting podcast because I went

out into the real world and hashtag IRL Experience in real life. Me and Hannah and Yana, my

intrepid podcasting team, we went down to the south coast of England, a place between

the low-lying Heathland of the New Forest and the glistening Sea of the Chang'our, a place

called Limington.

Daniel DeFoe visited in the early 18th century and he wrote about it smuggling and rogging

as the reigning commas all this part of the English coast, rogging, what a great verb,

love that.

And perhaps rogging had something to do with the topic of this podcast because we dashed

down to the coast, team history hit did, to respond to an emergency, a heritage emergency,

a fantastic coin-horde has recently been found very near Limington. It belongs to quote

Indiana Jones in a museum. It belongs in the local museum near to where it was found, near

to where it was buried. But the museum needs to read some money, to team history hit, went

down and kick-started those fundraising efforts.

We spoke in this podcast, in the museum, St Barb Museum in Limington, we spoke to the

three wonderful metal detectors who not only found the coins in a secret location in

the New Forest but behaved impeccably in accordance with the law and made sure the archaeologists

were present for their excavation.

We then talked to Professor Emeritus Tony King, who was a professor of Roman archaeology

at Winchester University. You'll hear from him after the ad break. And I also talked to

young kids from Prisland, the local secondary school who are young curators at the museum.

The coin-horde is particularly fascinating because it's a hoard of coins that were

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