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The Mildenhall Treasure

Good news was hard to come by during the Second World War, which makes ploughman Gordon Butcher’s 1942 discovery in a Suffolk field all the more remarkable. While working the winter soil of fields belonging to Sydney Ford, Butcher first caught a glimpse of one of the most unexpected hoards of

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