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716 Roman England; Ottoman Turkey; Crossing Boundaries

Travel with Rick Steves

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The History of Roman Britain

I live in the Cotswolds. Now that's Gloucestershire, isn't it? If you dig your back garden long enough, you will dig up some Roman remains. You can buy Roman pennies for a dollar or two each at flea markets. I understand when people were going to go into a town, they would bury their coins outside before they went in. And then if they did get knocked off, their coins would stay there for 2,000 years until somebody with a metal detector finds them. That seems to have happened through the ages, yes. Not just the Roman times, but the Anglo-Saxons did that as well. It's great to be

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