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Patterns of finds of continental coinage appear to vary considerably, related to fluctuations in trading relationships and economics, with finds of Venetian coinage and the Low Countries most common.[39] A mid-12th-century I petit denier i struck at Ypres (Belgium) from Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange (Lincolnshire; LIN-6D2321; Fig 2j) is of an earlier date than the main Low Countries incursions (mid-late 13th century) and the first PAS-recorded example from outside southern England. Evidence from graves shows that such copies were often pierced for suspension, playing the same role in burials as official coins - eg as pendants at Lechlade (Gloucestershire) and Ipswich (Suffolk), and unmodified at Carisbrooke Castle (Isle of Wight), where it was placed in the mouth of the deceased.[9] Other plated imitations with piercings have been recorded by the PAS.[10] PHOTO (COLOR): Fig 1 Early medieval coins. Two pennies of Offa of Mercia (757-96), non-portrait types belonging to the "Light Coinage" (c 784-92), extend the distribution of Mercian coinage into SW England with finds from Tarrant Hinton (Dorset; DOR-A6A573; Fig 1f) - the first from Dorset - and Chitterne (Wiltshire; SUR-7F7364; Fig 1g). I General Editor: i NEIL CHRISTIE I Portable Antiquities Scheme Report edited by: i JOHN NAYLOR[1] I Medieval Britain and Ireland compiled and edited by: i TIZIANA VITALI I and i PATRICK GLEESON I with i TOMÁS Ó CARRAGÁIN This section of the journal comprises two core sets of reports linked to work in 2021: finds and analyses relating to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and related research reports; and site-specific discoveries and reports in medieval Britain and Ireland (MB&I), with a selection of highlighted projects. [Extracted from the article]

This section of the journal comprises two core sets of reports linked to work in 2018: finds and analyses relating to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and site-specific discoveries and reports in medieval Britain and Ireland (MB&I), with a selection of highlighted projects. Over 1,900 coins recorded of "short cross" and '(voided) long cross' types of Henry II-Edward I (1180-1279) represent a marked increase in coin loss, and the period after Edward I's (1272-1307) recoinage of 1279 until Henry VII (1485-1509) accounted for almost 3,000 recorded coins last year. 12 Cook, B 1999, ' Foreign coins in medieval England ', in L Travaini (ed), Local Coins, Foreign Coins: Italy and Europe 11th-15th Centuries, Milan: Società Numismatica Italiana, 231 - 83. 18 Gannon, A 2013, British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I: Early Anglo-Saxon Gold and Anglo-Saxon and Continental Silver Coinage of the North Sea Area, c.600-760, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 63. [Extracted from the article]