Have you ever found any gold and if you have how much was it worth? Piper (12)

No, I have never found any gold myself – possibly something to do with spending a lot of time digging Neolithic sites (Stone Age – before any metals were used!) and I’ve only directed one site, an Iron Age settlement near Cirencester, where someone found a stater, a beautiful Iron Age gold coin. As far as how much something is worth, archaeologists aren’t bothered about that, it’s more to do with the historical value rather than the money value – what an object can tell us rather than how much it would fetch if it was sold.