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Colchester: From Bronze Age to Boudica

The Ancients

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Ancient Coins - A Look at Themselves

One of the artifacts at the museum which i love the most are those animal figurines from the lexton burial. They're just so stunning. It's quite hard to know what they would have represented to nage peoples, if you like. There was no indigenous kind of idea of that. But again, we don't know an awful lot about their liconography. For instance, there it was almost definitely in wood. There's very little surviving in stone or anything like that. So again,. we don't really know what symbols they look to. Agetting coins in britain from about 50 b c. And again, the conoblin coins, oh, everywhere where you

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