article_snippet.sent: It may look like a misshapen disk of metal, but Tiny copper coin is one of the oldest ever to be found in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: The tiny copper coin, which is smaller than a penny, dates from the Iron Age almost 2,300 years ago and suggests there were links between the south west of England and the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: The tiny copper coin, which is smaller than a penny, dates from the Iron Age almost 2,300 years ago and suggests there were links between the south west of England and the Mediterranean the south west of England and the Mediterranean England .
article_snippet.sent: Experts have dated Tiny copper coin to between 300 BC and 264 BC and say Tiny copper coin came from the Western Mediterranean - probably Sardinia or ancient Carthage.
article_snippet.sent: The find suggests that the village of Saltford, where Tiny copper coin was found, was on a major trade route long before Roman times.
article_snippet.sent: The find suggests that the village of Saltford (shown on the map with a red marker), where Tiny copper coin was found, was on a major trade route long before Roman times .
article_snippet.sent: Tiny copper coin is thought to be the oldest dateable evidence of human activity found in Saltford and the West of England.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Phil Harding of the Saltford Environment Group, said that Tiny copper coin significant because Tiny copper coin is one of the oldest coins ever to be found in England.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tiny copper coin is dated to the Iron Age, almost 2,300 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tiny copper coin was found in Saltford between Bristol and Bath in South West England .
  