The coins in the bundle were minted between 1036 and 1044, dating back to the reigns of Harold I, Harthacnut, and Edward the Confessor.

But when Harthacnut died after a short reign in 1042, the English selected Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother, Edward the Confessor, as king instead.

Emma was wife to two English kings – Aethelred and Cnut – and mother to two more, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor.

According to the report, the silver coins were made during the rule of three kings from the House of Wessex: Harold I (1036–1040), Harthacnut (1040–1042), and Edward the Confessor (1042–1066).

Archaeologists from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) have discovered a hoard of 321 mint-condition silver coins (319 full pennies plus two cut halfpence) dating to the 11th century CE near the ...

The coins were minted during the reigns of Harold I (1036–1040), Harthacnut (1040–1042), and Edward the Confessor (1042–1066), he added, and the latest date to 1044.

Archaeologists have found a historically significant hoard of 300-plus mint-condition silver coins near Suffolk's future Sizewell C nuclear site.

In 1035 Cnut died and the throne was once more contested. Only one of Cnut's three sons was legitimate - Harthacnut. His mother, Emma of Normandy and her adviser, Godwine, Earl of Wessex, thought ...

William, however, reckoned he totally had a legit claim to the throne, because of familial ties to the previous king, Edward the Confessor, who had become king following the death of his half-brother, ...

Emma of Normandy is best-known as being queen consort to two kings – Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great – and the mother of two more, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. She was the daughter of ...