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The lure of the hoard

The name of Commios was already known to us from Julius Caesar’s . The Belgic king of the Atrebates, a Gaulish tribe, was busy making his new home in southern England in the couple of decades following Caesar’s raid on Britain in 55BC. What we didn’t know until March last year was the name of Commios’s neighbour. His name was Esunertos. That we now know the name of this British king, who may have even ruled from the Iron Age hillfort of Danebury, in Hampshire, is thanks to a

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