An old coin found during a gardening project has taken Robert Falconer back to the Battle of Chesterfield nearly 750 years earlier!
I HAVE always had an interest in our past, the way our ancestors lived and how life used to be where we live. I would look on with amazement, watching archaeologists on TV unearthing items that had not seen daylight for centuries. I would think what a great feeling it would be to hold something for the first time in maybe hundreds of years. Last summer, while working close to Chesterfield town centre, I had my own experience from the past. Just under the ground I unearthed a small metal object…