Template:Did you know nominations/Hexham Hoard

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:30, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Hexham Hoard

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• ... that the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas was discovered in a bronze bucket (pictured) by grave-diggers in 1832? Source: Adamson, John (1844). "An Account of the Discovery, at Hexham, in Northumberland, of a Brass Vessel, containing a Number of Anglo-Saxon Coins, called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3.
  • ALT1:... that grave-diggers discovered the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas in a bronze bucket (pictured) in 1832? Source: Adamson, John (1844). "An Account of the Discovery, at Hexham, in Northumberland, of a Brass Vessel, containing a Number of Anglo-Saxon Coins, called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Odontotermes obesus
• Comment: I'm not sure if styca is too unusual, could be replaced with 'early medieval coins' or 'ninth-century coins'? Thanks

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Self-nominated at 21:02, 15 October 2020 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, within policy. Both hooks are good and supported by inline citations. The image license is good. QPQ has been done. No problems here, good to go. Nice article! Yakikaki (talk) 15:39, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks very much Yakikaki! (Lajmmoore (talk) 08:15, 19 October 2020 (UTC))