Archaeologists say that the 63 coins, most of which bear the name of King Burgred of Mercia, might have been hidden in the ninth century to keep them safe at a time of unrest Metal detectorists uncovered 25 of the coins in the summer of 2022. Archaeologists later unearthed an additional 38. Worcestershire Archaeology / Worcestershire County Council On a summer morning in 2022, dozens of people gathered in a field in the English village of Bickmarsh , many with metal detectors in hand. Around 9 a.m., one of the attendees discovered a silver coin buried in the dirt. Soon after, another individual stumbled onto a cache of five or six more. “We cordoned off an area of the field, and slowly but surely, the coins kept popping up,” dig coordinator Simon Hall told the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald ’s Lise Evens in August 2022. “The guys were literally shaking every time a new coin was found. They were spellbound.…