Styca

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Sty´ca

An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Digging also began this week at Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland in the latest six-week excavation season by the Bamburgh Research project -- and an immediate find was an Anglo-Saxon styca coin likely to be mid-9th century.

Dig hopes to solve mystery of why Roman town was built in a corner of County Durham; Roman towns were usually attached to forts, but a settlement discovered near Sedgefield bucks the trend. A new dig hopes to find out why

Also in the coin collection are Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian styca coins, the best haul of which was the 8,000 coins of the Hexham hoard, found in 1832.

Historic treasures preserved over the past two centuries

The layers included an early 9th Century styca coin and the bones of ox, sheep, pig, deer, and the shells of oyster, mussel, limpet, and periwinkle which gives an insight into the diet of those who lived in the citadel at that time.