Rare 8th Century coin find in Faversham

[Imperial Dave]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4499350/Rare-Anglo-Saxon-penny-car-salesman.html

just to give Tim a giggle as my *favourite online resource comes up with another news story....

if nothing else, it has given me a prompt to look up the Battle of Otford and the period of Mercian expansion

(* not really )

[Tim]

Holly

Thanks.  Battle of Otford is a new one for me too.

However are you sure that this is the Mail site - could be the Grauniad give that it refers to Kent being ruled by 'two kinds'...?

[Imperial Dave]

hmmm...much to ponder my padawan friend