{"id":1447,"date":"2024-04-23T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yacsomerset.co.uk\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:24:38","slug":"archaeology-and-coins-3rd-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yacsomerset.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/archaeology-and-coins-3rd-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeology and Coins &#8211; 3rd February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our February session we were visited by Laura Burnett from the Southwest Heritage Trust.\u00a0 Laura is a finds expert who specialises in coins and in this session we were looking at the ways coins can help archaeologists.\u00a0 After an introductory talk by Laura, we split up into three groups and took it in turns carrying out three different activities.<\/p>\n<p>One activity was to design our own coins.\u00a0 Laura provided photos of coins to give our MAYANS inspiration, e.g. Roman coins, trade tokens 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