List of Bronze Age hoards in Great Britain

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The list of Bronze Age hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC. It includes both hoards that were buried with the intention of retrieval at a later date (personal hoards, founder's hoards, merchant's hoards, and hoards of loot), and also hoards of votive offerings which were not intended to be recovered at a later date, but excludes grave goods and single items found in isolation.

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HoardImageDatePlace of discoveryYear of discoveryCurrent LocationContents
Adabrock Hoard A collection of items from the Adabrock hoard, Isle of Lewis.jpg 1000-800BC Adabroc,

Isle of Lewis

1910 National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh2 bronze socketed axeheads, 1 spearhead, 1 gouge, 1 hammer, 3 razors, fragments of decorated bronze vessel, two whetstones and beads of glass, amber and gold. [1]
Arreton Down Hoard1700-1500 BC Arreton Down,
Isle of Wight
50°40′55″N1°14′13″W / 50.68196°N 1.23703°W / 50.68196; -1.23703 (Arreton Down Hoard)
1735 British Museum, London7 bronze spear-heads, 4 axes, 1 dagger, 1 halberd [2]
Auchnacree Hoard23rd to 21st century BC Auchnacree
Angus
56°45′N2°53′W / 56.75°N 2.88°W / 56.75; -2.88 (Auchnacree Hoard)
1921 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh2 bronze knives
3 bronze axeheads
1 bronze armlet [3]
Beachy Head Hoard1400-750 BC Beachy Head,
East Sussex
50°44′37″N0°13′58″E / 50.7436494°N 0.2327261°E / 50.7436494; 0.2327261 (Beachy Head Hoard)
1824 British Museum, London4 gold penannular bracelets [4]
Beaumaris Hoard1400-1100 BC Beaumaris,
Anglesey
53°16′02″N4°05′35″W / 53.267093°N 4.093126°W / 53.267093; -4.093126 (Beaumaris Hoard)
1849 British Museum, London2 gold penannular bracelets [5]
Bexley Hoard1000-750 BC Bexley,
London
51°27′36″N0°06′29″E / 51.45996°N 0.108089°E / 51.45996; 0.108089 (Bexley Hoard)
1906 British Museum, London17 gold penannular bracelets (one broken in half) [6]
Boughton Malherbe Hoard9th century BC Boughton Malherbe
Kent
51°13′N0°41′E / 51.21°N 0.69°E / 51.21; 0.69 (Boughton Malherbe Hoard)
2011 Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery 352 bronze objects of types commonly found in northern France, comprising 75 bronze weapon fragments, 136 bronze tools and tool fragments, 42 bronze ornaments, and about 71 bronze ingots, moulds and miscellaneous objects. [7] [8]
Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard Burnham Hoard bronze axes.jpg Bronze Age Burnham-on-Crouch
Essex
51°37′41″N0°48′54″E / 51.628°N 0.815°E / 51.628; 0.815 (Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard)
2010Colchester and Ipswich Museumspottery vessel filled with bronze axes and other metalwork [9]
Burton Hoard Burton Hoard.jpg 13th to mid 12th century BC Burton, Wrexham
Clwyd
53°06′18″N2°57′54″W / 53.105°N 2.965°W / 53.105; -2.965 (Burton Hoard)
2004 National Museum Cardiff 2 bronze palstaves
1 bronze chisel
1 gold torc
1 gold twisted-wire bracelet
1 gold necklace pendant
4 gold beads
3 gold rings
1 pottery vessel [10]
Chrishall Hoard1300-800 BC Chrishall,
Essex
52°01′58″N0°06′26″E / 52.032798°N 0.107231°E / 52.032798; 0.107231 (Chrishall Hoard)
c. 1853 British Museum, London5 bronze axes, 3 swords, 1 ingot, 1 spear-head [11]
Collette Hoard [note 1] 10th to 9th century BC Berwick upon Tweed
Northumberland
55°46′16″N2°00′25″W / 55.771°N 2.007°W / 55.771; -2.007 (Collette Hoard)
2005 Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne 6 socketed axes, 6 gold lock rings, and various bracelets, rings and pins [13]
Corbridge HoardMiddle Bronze Age Corbridge
Northumberland
54°57′43″N1°59′46″W / 54.962°N 1.996°W / 54.962; -1.996 (Corbridge Hoard (1835))
1835Blackgate Museum
Bailiffgate Museum
fragments of two spearheads
pieces of dagger blades
a flanged axe [14]
Crundale Hoard8th to 9th century BC Crundale
Kent
51°12′07″N0°58′26″E / 51.202°N 0.974°E / 51.202; 0.974 (Crundale Hoard)
2003 Museum of Canterbury 188 fragments (including axe, chisel, palstave, hammer, gouge, knife, sickle, sword, bracelet, ring, and ingots) [15]
Driffield Hoard I Driffield Hoard axes.jpg Late Bronze Age Driffield,
East Riding of Yorkshire
54°00′00″N0°26′42″W / 54.000°N 0.445°W / 54.000; -0.445 (Driffield Hoard I)
201614 bronze socketed axes and 13 bronze ingot fragments. [16]
Driffield Hoard IILate Bronze Age Driffield,
East Riding of Yorkshire
54°00′00″N0°26′42″W / 54.000°N 0.445°W / 54.000; -0.445 (Driffield Hoard II)
201636 complete and 23 broken or fragmented socketed bronze axes, two nearly complete bun-shaped bronze ingots, and 91 bronze ingot fragments. [17]
Duddingston Loch Hoard950–750 BC Duddingston Loch
Edinburgh
55°56′N3°09′W / 55.94°N 3.15°W / 55.94; -3.15 (Duddingston Loch Hoard)
1778 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh44 bronze items consisting of the ring of a large cauldron and fragments of spearheads, swords and dagger blades; point of a bronze spearhead; contorted bronze sword, broken in two, with three rivet holes and a slot in the hilt plate; contorted point of a bronze sword; blade of a bronze sword broken off under the hilt and bent back at the point. [18] [19]
Eggleston Hoard1000-750 BC Eggleston,
County Durham
54°36′00″N2°00′00″W / 54.600°N 2.000°W / 54.600; -2.000 (Gaerwen Hoard)
2019Several bronze spearheads and knives, as well as some amber and jet beads [20]
Fittleworth Hoard1400-1100 BC Fittleworth,
West Sussex
50°57′56″N0°33′50″W / 50.965636°N 0.563789°W / 50.965636; -0.563789 (Fittleworth Hoard)
1995 British Museum, London2 gold penannular bracelets, 35 gold bars, 2 fragments of a torc, 2 rings [21]
Gaerwen Hoard1000-750 BC Gaerwen,
Anglesey
53°15′15″N4°18′09″W / 53.254243°N 4.302382°W / 53.254243; -4.302382 (Gaerwen Hoard)
1852 British Museum, London2 gold lock rings, 2 gold penannular bracelets [22]
Havering hoard 900-800 BCE Rainham, London
(undisclosed site)
2018Unknown (exhibited at Museum of London Docklands from 3 April to 25 October 2020 and subsequently at Havering Museum)Swords, socketed axe heads, spear heads, knives, daggers, woodwork tools, bracelets, ingots, and other items, weighing more than 45 kg in total
Heathery Burn Cave Hoard1000-750 BC Heathery Burn Cave,
County Durham
54°45′56″N2°01′15″W / 54.765549°N 2.020794°W / 54.765549; -2.020794 (Heathery Burn Cave Hoard)
1866 British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Yorkshire Museum, York1 gold penannular bracelet, 1 gold lock-ring, 36 bronze awls, 20 pins, 14 axes, 11 rings, 11 cheek-pieces, 10 bracelets, 10 spear-heads, 8 pendants, 7 vessels, 6 wheels, 6 spatulas, 2 toggles, 2 knives, 2 swords, 4 scoops or chisels, 4 phaleras, casting moulds, fittings, a bowl and a bucket plus other miscellaneous items [23]
Heights of Brae Hoard 8th to 7th century BCHeights of Brae
Dingwall, Highland
57°36′58″N4°28′34″W / 57.616°N 4.476°W / 57.616; -4.476 (Heights of Brae Hoard)
1967 and 1979 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh3 gold cup-ended ornaments, 5 gold penannular armlets, and 1 corrugated gold band (a cup-ended ornament, a pennanular armlet and two additional items that are now lost were found during ploughing in 1967; the remaining seven items were found during archaeological investigation in 1979). [24]
Hollingbourne Hoard Treasure Annual Report 2003 fig 19a.jpg 10th to 9th century BC Hollingbourne
Kent
51°16′01″N0°38′28″E / 51.267°N 0.641°E / 51.267; 0.641 (Hollingbourne Hoard)
2003 Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery 12 bronze axes and axe fragments
2 bronze sword hilt fragments
6 bronze sword blade fragments
2 bronze spearhead fragments
14 bronze ingots [25]
Hollingbury Hoard1400-1250 BC Hollingbury,
East Sussex
50°51′32″N0°08′42″W / 50.8589774°N 0.145044°W / 50.8589774; -0.145044 (Hollingbury Hill Hoard)
1825 British Museum, London4 bronze armlets, 3 rings, 1 palstave, 1 torc [26]
Horsehope Craig Hoard 7th to 6th century BCnear Peebles,
Peeblesshire
55°34′38″N3°15′40″W / 55.577200°N 3.261175°W / 55.577200; -3.261175 (Horsehope Craig Hoard)
1865 Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Peebles and National Museum of Scotland 15 bronze rings, 2 socketed axes, 1 rapier, 28 objects in all, thought to be elements of horse harness and cart mountings [27]
Husband's Bosworth HoardLate Bronze Age Husbands Bosworth
Leicestershire
52°27′11″N1°03′22″W / 52.453°N 1.056°W / 52.453; -1.056 (Husband's Bosworth Hoard)
1801unknown4 looped and socketed celts
2 socketed celts
3 socketed gouges
2 spearheads
1 flat ferrule [28]
Isleham Hoard 8th century BC Isleham
Cambridgeshire
52°20′35″N0°26′28″E / 52.343°N 0.441°E / 52.343; 0.441 (Isleham Hoard)
1959 West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
6,500 pieces of worked and unworked bronze [29]
Lambourn Hoard Lambourne Hoard.jpg 14th to 12th century BC Lambourn
Berkshire
51°30′32″N1°31′52″W / 51.509°N 1.531°W / 51.509; -1.531 (Lambourn Hoard)
2004 West Berkshire Museum 2 gold armlets
3 gold bracelets [30]
Langdon Bay Hoard13th century BCIn the English Channel at Langdon Bay
Kent
51°07′48″N1°21′04″E / 51.13°N 1.351°E / 51.13; 1.351 (Langdon Bay Hoard)
1974 British Museum, London [note 2] 360 items of scrap metal, including bronze axes of a French type [32]
Langton Matravers Hoard7th century BC Langton Matravers, near Swanage
Dorset
50°36′32″N2°00′22″W / 50.609°N 2.006°W / 50.609; -2.006 (Langton Matravers Hoard)
2008 Dorset Museum, Dorchester276 complete socketed bronze axes, 107 halves of socketed bronze axes and 117 fragments of socketed bronze axes in three adjacent pits and one pit further away [33]
Lewes Hoard Near Lewes Hoard.jpg 16th to 12th century BCnear Lewes
East Sussex
51°04′N2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.08°W / 51.06; -2.08 (Near Lewes Hoard)
201179 objects in a pottery vessel, including 3 bronze palstaves, 5 bronze bracelets, 8 bronze finger rings, 4 bronze tutuli (also known as Monkswood ornaments), 4 gold discs, 1 bronze pin, 19 amber beads and 4 bronze torcs [34]
Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Hoard16th to mid 8th century BC Llanarmon-yn-Iâl
Denbighshire
53°06′00″N3°12′36″W / 53.100°N 3.210°W / 53.100; -3.210 (Near Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Hoard)
1982 Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales 1 socketed bronze axe, 2 gold bracelets, a broken gold link, and a gold ingot [35]
Lockington Hoard21st to 20th century BC Lockington
Leicestershire
52°50′53″N1°18′29″W / 52.848°N 1.308°W / 52.848; -1.308 (Lockington Hoard)
1994 British Museum, Londonfragments of 2 Beaker style pots
1 copper alloy dagger
2 embossed gold-sheet armlets [36]
Manorbier Hoard10th to 9th century BC Manorbier
Dyfed
51°39′N4°48′W / 51.65°N 4.80°W / 51.65; -4.80 (Manorbier Hoard)
201019 bronze and copper artefacts, including socketed axes, a gouge, a piece of a sword blade, a circular dish-headed pin, ingots and bronze casting bi-products [37]
Marston St. Lawrence Hoard1300-800 BC Marston St. Lawrence,
Northamptonshire
52°04′42″N1°13′15″W / 52.078284°N 1.220759°W / 52.078284; -1.220759 (Marston St. Lawrence Hoard)
c.1897 British Museum, London4 bronze spear-heads, 2 swords, 2 stone whetstones, 1 bracelet, 1 ferrule [38]
Meldreth Hoard1300-800 BC Meldreth,
Cambridgeshire
52°06′04″N0°00′24″E / 52.101092°N 0.006779°E / 52.101092; 0.006779 (Meldreth Hoard)
1880 British Museum, London25 bronze axes, 15 ingots, 5 spear-heads, 4 swords, 2 bucket handles, 1 gouge, 1 razor, 1 finger ring, 1 chisel [39]
Mickleham Hoard10th to 11th century BC Mickleham
Surrey
51°16′05″N0°19′16″W / 51.268°N 0.321°W / 51.268; -0.321 (Mickleham Hoard)
20032 socketed axes
1 chape [40]
Migdale Hoard 23rd to 20th century BC Bonar Bridge
Sutherland
57°54′14″N4°19′37″W / 57.904°N 4.327°W / 57.904; -4.327 (Migdale Hoard)
1900 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh1 bronze axe head
sets of bronze bangles and anklets
a set of jet and cannel coal buttons
bronze hair ornaments
fragments of a bronze headdress [41]
Milton Keynes Hoard MiltonKeynesHoard.JPG mid 12th to late 9th century BC Monkston, Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
52°02′10″N0°42′00″W / 52.036°N 0.700°W / 52.036; -0.700 (Milton Keynes Hoard)
2000 British Museum, London2 gold torcs
3 gold bracelets
1 bronze fragment
1 pottery vessel [42]
Moor Sand Hoard13th century BCOff Prawle Point, near Salcombe
Devon
50°12′00″N3°43′30″W / 50.200°N 3.725°W / 50.200; -3.725 (Moor Sand Hoard)
1977 British Museum, Londonsix bronze swords or sword fragments and two bronze palstaves [32]
Morvah Hoard1000-750 BC Morvah,
Cornwall
50°09′40″N5°38′18″W / 50.161148°N 5.638244°W / 50.161148; -5.638244 (Morvah Hoard)
1884 British Museum, London6 gold penannular bracelets [43]
New Bradwell (or Wolverton) Hoardmid 12th to late 9th century BC New Bradwell, Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
52°03′54″N0°47′53″W / 52.065°N 0.798°W / 52.065; -0.798 (New Bradwell Hoard)
1879 Buckinghamshire County Museum 9 bronze socketed axes
3 broken axes
1 palstave
2 spearheads
a leaf-shaped sword (broken into 4 pieces) [44]
Ockham Hoard Middle Bronze Age Ockham, Surrey 2013 Guildford Museum six unlooped palstave axes of which four are ribbed examples, and two plain; two Sussex loop bracelets; and two spiral finger rings [45]
Peebles Hoard (unofficial name as of 10 August 2020)9th century BC ??(undisclosed site) near Peebles 2020 National Museums Scotland bronze horse harness fittings [46]
Plymstock Hoard2150-1600 BC Plymstock,
Devon
50°21′25″N4°05′24″W / 50.356944°N 4.09°W / 50.356944; -4.09 (Plymstock Hoard)
1869 British Museum, London12 bronze axes, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, 1 chisel [47]
Rossett Hoard Early Bronze Age hoard.jpg 10th to 9th century BC Rossett
Wrexham
53°06′32″N2°56′42″W / 53.109°N 2.945°W / 53.109; -2.945 (Rossett Hoard)
2002 National Museum Cardiff 1 faceted axe
1 tanged knife
4 pieces of gold bracelet stored inside the axe [48]
Selborne Hoard1400-1250 BC Woolmer Forest near Selborne,
Hampshire
51°05′02″N0°51′31″W / 51.083993°N 0.858523°W / 51.083993; -0.858523 (Selbourne Hoard)
1840 British Museum, London3 bronze armlets, 2 rings, 1 bracelet, 1 spear-head, 1 palstave [49]
St Erth hoards Bronze Age axe head from St Erth hoard.jpg 8th to 9th century BC St Erth
Cornwall
50°09′58″N5°26′13″W / 50.166°N 5.437°W / 50.166; -5.437 (St Erth hoards)
2002–2003 Royal Cornwall Museum 2 gold ornament fragments
Bronze/copper hoard 1: 5 sword pieces, 3 socketed axe pieces, 1 socketed gouge piece, 1 knife fragment, 1 plate-like fragment, 16 ingot fragments or amorphous lumps
Bronze/copper hoard 2: 1 winged axe, 1 plate-like spill, 15 ingot fragments [50]
St Mellons HoardLate Bronze Age St Mellons, Cardiff
Glamorgan
51°31′08″N3°06′50″W / 51.519°N 3.114°W / 51.519; -3.114 (St Mellons Hoard)
1983 National Museum Cardiff 25 bronze socketed axes and one casting jet [51]
Stogursey Hoard (1870)8th century BCWick Farm, Stogursey
Somerset
51°11′20″N3°06′40″W / 51.189°N 3.111°W / 51.189; -3.111 (Stogursey Hoard)
1870 Museum of Somerset 20 sword fragments
29 socketed axes
37 socketed axe fragments
2 palstaves
2 gouges
2 knives or daggers
1 chape
20 spearheads
34 other bronze fragments [52]
Stonnall Hoard Sketches of Stonnall Hoard by Samuel Meyrick.jpg Bronze AgeGainsborough Hill Farm, Stonnall
Staffordshire
52°37′19″N1°53′28″W / 52.622°N 1.891°W / 52.622; -1.891 (Stonnall Hoard)
1824Unknown2 swords
1 spearhead and 2 fragments of same
4 ferrules
2 cylinders
3 rings
2 pommels
3 celts
1 lump of copper
1 lump of lead [53]
Stretham Hoard1300-1000 BC Stretham,
Cambridgeshire
52°21′00″N0°13′14″E / 52.349933°N 0.220663°E / 52.349933; 0.220663 (Stretham Hoard)
1850 British Museum, London, Hunt Museum, Limerick1 gold torc, 1 gold bracelet, 6 ribbed rings, 1 bronze rapier [54]
Tarves Hoard1000-850 BC Tarves,
Aberdeenshire
57°21′26″N2°13′24″W / 57.3570858°N 2.2234368°W / 57.3570858; -2.2234368 (Tarves Hoard)
1858 British Museum, London3 bronze swords, 1 pommel, 1 chape and 2 pins [55]
Tisbury Hoard Tisbury Hoard.jpg 9th to 8th century BC Tisbury
Wiltshire
51°04′N2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.09°W / 51.06; -2.09 (Tisbury Hoard)
2011114 bronze items, including weapons and tools (sword hilts, sword blades, spearheads, axeheads, gouges, chisels, sickles and knives), pieces of jewellery, razors and other miscellaneous items [56]
Tisbury Treasure1100-750 BC Tisbury,
Wiltshire
51°04′N2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.09°W / 51.06; -2.09 (Tisbury Treasure)
Before 1897 British Museum, London6 gold penannular bracelets [57]
Towednack Hoard10th century BC Towednack
Cornwall
50°11′28″N5°31′12″W / 50.191°N 5.520°W / 50.191; -5.520 (Towednack Hoard)
1931 British Museum, London2 twisted gold neckrings
4 gold bracelets
3 lengths of gold rod [58]
Urquhart Hoard1400-1100 BC Urquhart,
Moray
57°39′07″N3°11′46″W / 57.651853°N 3.19608°W / 57.651853; -3.19608 (Urquhart Hoard)
1857 British Museum, London, Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh36 or 37 originally, 7 gold ribbon torcs in BM, 3 in NMS and 1 in MM [59] [60] [61]
Walderslade Hoard1000-750 BC Walderslade,
Kent
51°20′06″N0°31′07″E / 51.33494°N 0.5187°E / 51.33494; 0.5187 (Walderslade Hoard)
1965 British Museum, London2 gold penannular bracelets [62]
Wanlass Hoard1100-750 BCWanlass,
North Yorkshire
54°18′03″N1°54′12″W / 54.300885°N 1.9032°W / 54.300885; -1.9032 (Wanlass Hoard)
1862 British Museum, London4 gold penannular bracelets [63]
Whalley Hoard1000-750 BC Whalley,
Lancashire
53°49′28″N2°24′12″W / 53.82454°N 2.403295°W / 53.82454; -2.403295 (Wanlass Hoard)
1966 British Museum, London1 gold penannular bracelet, 1 gold lock-ring, 2 axes, 1 knife, 1 sword blade, 1 socketed gouge and 1 lead stud [64]

See also

Notes

  1. The Collette Hoard is named after Collette Minns, the eight-year-old daughter of the hoard's finder, John Minns. [12]
  2. The Langdon Bay Hoard is currently on loan to the Dover Museum. [31]

Footnotes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Portable Antiquities Scheme</span>

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme began in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Treasure trove</span> Hidden store of valuables

A treasure trove is an amount of money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion found hidden underground or in places such as cellars or attics, where the treasure seems old enough for it to be presumed that the true owner is dead and the heirs undiscoverable. An archaeological find of treasure trove is known as a hoard. The legal definition of what constitutes treasure trove and its treatment under law vary considerably from country to country, and from era to era.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hoxne Hoard</span> Roman hoard found in England

The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. It was found by Eric Lawes, a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England in 1992. The hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver, and bronze coins and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery. The objects are now in the British Museum in London, where the most important pieces and a selection of the rest are on permanent display. In 1993, the Treasure Valuation Committee valued the hoard at £1.75 million.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vale of York Hoard</span> Viking hoard found in North Yorkshire, England

The Vale of York Hoard, also known as the Harrogate Hoard and the Vale of York Viking Hoard, is a 10th-century Viking hoard of 617 silver coins and 65 other items. It was found undisturbed in 2007 near the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The hoard was the largest Viking one discovered in Britain since 1840, when the Cuerdale hoard was found in Lancashire, though the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard, found in 2009, is larger.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Staffordshire Hoard</span> Anglo-Saxon hoard discovered in 2009

The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It consists of almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, amounting to a total of 5.1 kg (11 lb) of gold, 1.4 kg (3 lb) of silver and some 3,500 pieces of garnet cloisonné jewellery. It is described by the historian Cat Jarman as "possibly the finest collection of early medieval artefacts ever discovered".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milton Keynes Hoard</span> Bronze age hoards found in and around Milton Keynes, England

The Milton Keynes Hoard is a hoard of Bronze Age gold found in September 2000 in a field at Monkston Park in Milton Keynes, England. The hoard consisted of two torcs, three bracelets, and a fragment of bronze rod contained in a pottery vessel. The inclusion of pottery in the find enabled it to be dated to around 1150–800 BC.

The Treasure Valuation Committee (TVC) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) based in London, which offers expert advice to the government on items of declared treasure in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland that museums there may wish to acquire from the Crown.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frome Hoard</span> Hoard of Roman coins found in Somerset, UK

The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010 by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. The coins were contained in a ceramic pot 45 cm (18 in) in diameter, and date from AD 253 to 305. Most of the coins are made from debased silver or bronze. The hoard is one of the largest ever found in Britain, and is also important as it contains the largest group ever found of coins issued during the reign of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from 286 to 293 and was the first Roman Emperor to strike coins in Britain. The Museum of Somerset in Taunton, using a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), acquired the hoard in 2011 for a value of £320,250.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shrewsbury Hoard</span> Hoard of Roman coins found in England

The Shrewsbury Hoard is a hoard of 9,315 bronze Roman coins discovered by a metal detectorist in a field near Shrewsbury, Shropshire in August 2009. The coins were found in a large pottery storage jar that was buried in about AD 335.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Winchester Hoard</span> Iron Age gold hoard

The Winchester Hoard is a hoard of Iron Age gold found in a field in the Winchester area of Hampshire, England, in 2000, by a retired florist and amateur metal detectorist, Kevan Halls. It was declared treasure and valued at £350,000—the highest reward granted under the Treasure Act 1996 at that time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silverdale Hoard</span> Silver hoard discovered in Lancashire, England

The Silverdale Hoard is a collection of over 200 pieces of silver jewellery and coins discovered near Silverdale, Lancashire, England, in September 2011. The items were deposited together in and under a lead container buried about 16 inches (41 cm) underground which was found in a field by a metal detectorist. It is believed to date to around AD 900, a time of intense conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish settlers of northern England. The hoard is one of the largest Viking hoards ever discovered in the UK. It has been purchased by Lancashire Museums Service and has been displayed at Lancaster City Museum and the Museum of Lancashire in Preston. It is particularly significant for its inclusion of a coin stamped with the name of a previously unknown Viking ruler.

<i>Britains Secret Treasures</i> British documentary on ITV

Britain's Secret Treasures is a British documentary shown on ITV hosted by Michael Buerk and Bettany Hughes. The programme features fifty archaeological discoveries that have been made in England, Wales and Scotland by members of the public. With the exception of a single find made in Scotland, all the objects featured were recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). Since the PAS was set up in 1997, some 800,000 objects have been registered with the scheme, many of them discovered by amateur metal detectorists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Seaton Down Hoard</span> Roman hoard from Devon

The Seaton Down Hoard is a hoard of 22,888 Roman coins found in November 2013 by metal detectorist Laurence Egerton near Seaton Down in Devon, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger Bland</span> British curator and numismatist

Roger Farrant Bland, is a British curator and numismatist. At the British Museum, he served as Keeper of the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure from 2005 to 2013, Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Europe from 2012 to 2013, and Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory from 2013 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Leicester and a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horncastle boar's head</span> 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ornament depicting a boar

The Horncastle boar's head is an early seventh-century Anglo-Saxon ornament depicting a boar that probably was once part of the crest of a helmet. It was discovered in 2002 by a metal detectorist searching in the town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. It was reported as found treasure and acquired for £15,000 by the Lincoln City and County Museum, where it is on permanent display.

The Cridling Stubbs hoard is a Romano-British hoard of more than 3,300 coins in a large, ceramic jar.

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