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Bill Wyman’s metal detecting hobby uncovered 200 Roman coins and a lost farmstead

Bill Wyman, best known as the original bassist of the Rolling Stones, turned an accidental discovery on his Suffolk property into a serious pursuit of archaeology. After workers digging at his country home unearthed a medieval jug, he took up metal detecting to explore the land further. Over time, his searches revealed more than 200 Roman coins and the remains of a previously unknown Roman farmstead, findings that were recorded with the Suffolk Heritage Explorer and documented on his own archaeology pages. Read on to know more about it here:

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