The oldest gold coin in Britain ...

I was drawn to this particular walk because it passes the remains of a Roman fort named Magiovinium or Magiovinto, depending on who you read. The fort’s remains lay in a field just off Watling Street in Fenny Stratford. Magiovinium is the place where one of the oldest (if not the oldest) gold coins in Britain was found by an ordinary guy with a metal detector. Cool.  The coin is currently on display at the British museum in London. Magiovinium was apparently the site of a coin-making enterprise. Arguments continue as to whether this was legitimate enterprise or a counterfeiter at work.