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List of hoards in Great Britain
The list of hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). 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. The list is subdivided into sections according to archaeological and historical periods.
Neolithic hoards edit
Hoards dating to the Neolithic period, approximately 4000 to 2000 BC, comprise stone weapons and tools such as axeheads and arrowheads. Such hoards are very rare, and only a few are known from Britain.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayton East Field Hoard | 30th to 25th century BC | East Ayton North Yorkshire 54°15′18″N 0°28′26″W / 54.255°N 0.474°W | 1848 | British Museum, London | 3 flint axes 1 flint adze 5 arrowheads 1 polished flint knife 2 flint flakes 1 antler macehead 2 boar-tusk blades[1] | |
| York Hoard | 30th century BC | York North Yorkshire 53°57′29″N 1°04′48″W / 53.958°N 1.080°W | 1868 | Yorkshire Museum | ~70 flint tools and weapons[2] |
Bronze Age hoards edit
A large number of hoards associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC, have been found in Great Britain. Most of these hoards comprise bronze tools and weapons such as axeheads, chisels, spearheads and knives, and in many cases may be founder's hoards buried with the intention of recovery at a later date for use in casting new bronze items. A smaller number of hoards include gold torcs and other items of jewellery. As coinage was not in use during the Bronze Age in Great Britain, there are no hoards of coins from this period.
Iron Age hoards edit
A large number of hoards associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD, have been found in Britain. Most of the hoards comprise silver or gold Celtic coins known as staters, usually numbered in the tens or hundreds of coins, although the Hallaton Treasure contained over 5,000 silver and gold coins. In addition to hoards of coins, a number of hoards of gold torcs and other items of jewellery have been found, including the Snettisham Hoard, the Ipswich Hoard and the Stirling Hoard.
In September 2020, 1,300 Celtic gold coins were discovered at a location in eastern England, dated back between 40 and 50 A.D.[3]
Romano-British hoards edit
Hoards associated with the period of Romano-British culture when part of Great Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent Sub-Roman period up to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are the most numerous type of hoard found in Great Britain, and Roman coin hoards are particularly well represented, with over 1,200 known examples. In addition to hoards composed largely or entirely of coins, a smaller number of hoards, such as the Mildenhall Treasure and the Hoxne Hoard, include items of silver or gold tableware such as dishes, bowls, jugs and spoons, or items of silver or gold jewellery.
Anglo-Saxon hoards edit
Hoards associated with the Anglo-Saxon culture, from the 6th century to 1066, are relatively uncommon. Those that have been found include both hoards of coins and hoards of jewellery and metalwork such as sword hilts and crosses. The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard to have been found, comprising over 1,500 items of gold and silver. More Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been found in the context of grave burials than hoards in England. These include major finds from Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, Taplow in Buckinghamshire, Prittlewell, Mucking and Broomfield in Essex, and Crundale and Sarre in Kent.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appledore Hoard | Mid 11th century | Appledore Kent 51°01′52″N 0°47′24″E / 51.031°N 0.790°E | 1997 | British Museum, London | 490 pennies (1997) 12 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor (1998)[4] | |
| Bamburgh Hoard | Mid 9th century | Bamburgh Northumberland 55°36′14″N 1°43′19″W / 55.604°N 1.722°W | 1999 and 2004 | Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle | 384 base metal stycas Copper alloy fragments Bronze folding balance[5][6] | |
| Beeston Tor Hoard | 9th century | Beeston Tor Staffordshire 53°04′59″N 1°50′41″W / 53.08312°N 1.84470°W | 1926 | British Museum, London | 49 pennies, two silver brooches, three finger rings and assorted fragments[7] | |
| Brantham Hoard | 10th century | Brantham Suffolk 51°58′08″N 1°03′47″E / 51.969°N 1.063°E | 2003 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 90 silver pennies[8] | |
| Bucklesham Hoard | 11th century | Bucklesham Suffolk | 2017 | The hoard fetched £90,000 at auction | A hoard of 99 silver pennies, dated back to the reign of Aethelred II (978–1016), was discovered under the remains of a Saxon church demolished shortly after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century.[9] | |
| Canterbury-St Martin's hoard | Late 6th or early 7th century | Canterbury Kent 51°16′41″N 1°05′38″E / 51.278°N 1.094°E | 1840s | World Museum, Liverpool | 8 items, including 3 gold coins, and two pieces of jewellery[10] | |
| Crondall Hoard | Mid 7th century | Crondall Hampshire 51°13′48″N 0°51′43″W / 51.230°N 0.862°W | 1828 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 100 small gold coins and 2 cloisonné pins[11] | |
| Harkirke (or Harkirk) Hoard | Early 10th century | Crosby Merseyside 53°30′07″N 3°01′12″W / 53.502°N 3.020°W | 1611 | unknown[note 1] | ~300 Viking and Kufic coins[12] | |
| Hexham Hoard | Ninth century | 1832 | The hoard was uncovered by the sexton and a grave-digger. | Approximately 8000 stycas in a bronze bucket. | ||
| Ipswich Hoard (1863) | 10th century | Ipswich Suffolk 52°03′32″N 1°09′22″E / 52.059°N 1.156°E | 1863 | 150 coins (75 now known)[13] | ||
| King's Lynn Hoard | early 7th century | King's Lynn, Norfolk | 2014 | 131 coins and four pieces of gold.[14] Ten coins were found by a serving police officer who tried to sell them and was jailed for 16 months.[15] | ||
| Kirkoswald Hoard | Mid 9th century | Kirkoswald, Cumbria | 1808 | 542 Northumbrian stycas and one silver trefoil ornament | ||
| Lenborough Hoard | Mid 11th century | Lenborough, near Padbury Buckinghamshire 51°58′37″N 0°58′52″W / 51.977°N 0.981°W | 2014 | 5,251½ coins in a lead bucket, including coins of Ethelred the Unready and Canute[16] | ||
| Pentney Hoard | Early 9th century | Pentney Norfolk 52°41′42″N 0°32′42″E / 52.695°N 0.545°E | 1978 | British Museum, London | 6 silver disc brooches[17] | |
| St Leonard's Place Hoard | Mid 9th century | York York 53°57′43″N 1°05′10″W / 53.962°N 1.086°W | 1842 | Yorkshire Museum | c.10,000 Northumbrian stycas | |
| Staffordshire Hoard | 7th or 8th century | Hammerwich Staffordshire 52°39′18″N 1°54′25″W / 52.655°N 1.907°W | 2009 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | More than 1,500 items (about 5 kg (11 lb) of gold and 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) of silver), mostly sword fittings and decorative parts of weaponry, but also two gold crosses and an inscribed gold strip[18] | |
| Trewhiddle Hoard | Late 9th century | Trewhiddle Cornwall 50°19′44″N 4°48′14″W / 50.329°N 4.804°W | 1774 | British Museum, London | 114 Anglo-Saxon coins, and various items of silverware, including a scourge, a chalice and a Celtic penannular brooch[19] | |
| West Yorkshire Hoard | 11th century | Leeds West Yorkshire 53°48′N 1°33′W / 53.8°N 1.55°W | 2008–2009 | Leeds City Museum | 5 items of 7th to 11th century gold jewellery (a cabochon ring, a filigree ring, a niello finger ring, a filigree and granular ring, and a piece of a cloisonné bracelet), an ingot of gold, and a lead spindle whorl.[20] |
Pictish hoards edit
Broch of Burgar Hoard
Gaulcross Hoard
Norrie's Law Hoard
St Ninian's Isle Treasure
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Pictish hoardsHoards associated with Pictish culture, dating from the end of Roman occupation in the 5th century until about the 10th century, have been found in eastern and northern Scotland. These hoards often contain silver brooches and other items of jewellery.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire hoard | 4th to 6th century | Undisclosed location Aberdeenshire | 2014 | 100 pieces of hacksilver, comprising late Roman coins and pieces of Roman and Pictish silver vessels, bracelets and brooches.[21] | ||
| Broch of Burgar Hoard | late 8th century | Broch of Burgar, near Evie Orkney 59°07′52″N 3°08′02″W / 59.131°N 3.134°W | 1840 | unknown | 8 silver vessels several silver combs 5 or 6 silver hair pins 2 or 3 silver brooches several fragments of silver chains a large number of amber beads[22] | |
| Gaulcross Hoard | 6th or early 7th century | Gaulcross, near Fordyce Aberdeenshire 57°39′47″N 2°46′44″W / 57.663°N 2.779°W | late 1830s | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | Several silver hand pins (only one extant) 1 silver bracelet 1 silver chain several silver brooches (all lost)[23] | |
| Norrie's Law hoard | late 7th century | Norrie's Law, Largo Fife 56°15′18″N 2°57′11″W / 56.255°N 2.953°W | 1819 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | Nearly 12.5 kg of silver objects, of which all but 750 g were melted down. The 170 surviving objects[24] include: 2 penannular brooches 2 oval plaques 3 or 4 hand-pins 2 spiral finger-rings 1 small vessel lid fragment of a 4th-century Roman spoon knife-handle mounts fragments of arm-bands various rod and chain fragments[25] | |
| St Ninian's Isle Treasure | late 8th or early 9th century | St Ninian's Isle Shetland 59°58′16″N 1°20′31″W / 59.971°N 1.342°W | 1958 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 8 silver bowls 12 silver penannular brooches 2 silver chapes (part of scabbard that protects the point) 1 silver communion spoon 1 silver knife 1 silver pommel 3 silver cones[26] |
Viking hoards edit
Hoards associated with the Viking culture in Great Britain, dating from the 9th to 11th centuries, are mostly found in northern England and Orkney, and frequently comprise a mixture of silver coins, silver jewellery and hacksilver that has been taken in loot, some coins originating from as far away as the Middle East.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ainsbrook Hoard[note 2] | late 10th century | Thirsk North Yorkshire 54°13′59″N 1°20′35″W / 54.233°N 1.343°W | 2003 | British Museum, London | ~130 objects of gold, silver (including 10 Anglo-Saxon coins), copper alloy, lead, iron, and stone[27][28] | |
| Ashdon Hoard | Late 9th century | Ashdon | 1984 | Fitzwilliam Museum | 71 silver pennies of Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and Carolingian origins[29] | |
| Bedale Hoard | early 10th century | Bedale North Yorkshire 54°17′N 1°35′W / 54.29°N 1.59°W | 2012 | Yorkshire Museum, York | 1 iron sword pommel with gold foil plaques, 4 gold hoops a sword hilt, 6 small gold rivets, 4 silver collars and neck-rings, 1 silver arm-ring, 1 fragment of a silver Permian ring, 1 silver penannular brooch, and 29 silver ingots.[30] | |
| Bossall-Flaxton Hoard | early 10th century | between Bossall and Flaxton North Yorkshire 54°03′00″N 0°56′42″W / 54.050°N 0.945°W | 1807 | Coins, bullion, arm-ring in a leaden box[31] | ||
| Bryn Maelgwyn Hoard | early 11th century | near Deganwy Castle, Llandudno Conwy 53°18′18″N 3°48′54″W / 53.305°N 3.815°W | 1979 | National Museum Cardiff | 204 silver pennies of Cnut the Great[32] | |
| Cuerdale Hoard | early 10th century | Cuerdale, near Preston Lancashire 53°45′18″N 2°38′24″W / 53.755°N 2.640°W | 1840 | British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 8,600 items including silver coins and bullion[33] | |
| Eye Hoard | late 9th century | Eye Herefordshire 52°16′14″N 2°44′27″W / 52.2705°N 2.7408°W | 2015 | Dispersed[note 3] | About 300 Anglo-Saxon silver and gold coins, some issued by Ceolwulf II of Mercia and some issued by Alfred of Wessex, together with one or more silver ingots, and some items of jewellery, including a late 6th-century crystal pendant, a gold arm-band and a gold finger ring[34][35] | |
| Furness Hoard | 10th century | Furness Cumbria 54°12′N 3°09′W / 54.20°N 3.15°W | 2011 | Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness | 92 silver coins, including two Arabic dirhams, several silver ingots, and one silver bracelet.[36] | |
| Galloway Hoard | early 10th century | Kirkcudbrightshire | 2014 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | over 100 gold and silver items, including armbands, a Christian cross, brooches, ingots and an exceptionally large Carolingian pot[37][38] | |
| Goldsborough Hoard | early 10th century | Goldsborough North Yorkshire 54°00′00″N 1°24′54″W / 54.000°N 1.415°W | 1859 | British Museum, London | Fragments of Viking brooches and arm-rings, together with thirty-nine coins[39] | |
| Huxley Hoard | late 9th to 10th century | Huxley, Cheshire Cheshire 53°08′49″N 2°43′59″W / 53.147°N 2.733°W | 2004 | World Museum, Liverpool | 22 silver pieces (including 20 flattened bracelets)[40] | |
| Leominster hoard | late 9th to 10th century | Eye, nearLeominster Herefordshire | 2015 | Over 300 coins, silver ingot, gold jewellery. The hoard was initially split and sold. Only 31 coins remain.[41] | ||
| Penrith Hoard | early 10th century | Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith Cumbria 54°39′00″N 2°34′41″W / 54.650°N 2.578°W | 1785–1989 | British Museum, London | A number of silver penannular brooches[42] | |
| Silverdale Hoard | early 10th century | Silverdale Lancashire 54°10′N 2°50′W / 54.17°N 2.83°W | 2011 | Museum of Lancashire, Preston, Lancaster City Museum | 201 silver objects inside a box made from a sheet of lead; comprising 27 coins (Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Viking, Frankish and Islamic), 10 arm rings, 2 finger rings, 14 ingots, 6 brooch fragments, 1 wire braid, and 141 pieces of hacksilver.[43] | |
| Skaill Hoard | mid 10th century | Bay of Skaill Orkney 59°03′00″N 3°20′13″W / 59.050°N 3.337°W | 1858 | National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | Over 100 items, including bracelets, brooches, hacksilver, and ingots[44] | |
| Storr Rock Hoard | 10th century | Isle of Skye | 1891 | National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | A collection of silver coins dating from the 10th century[45] | |
| Talnotrie Hoard | late 9th century | near Talntrie | 1912 | National Museums Scotland | Jewellery, metal-working material and coins | |
| Vale of York Hoard (Harrogate Hoard) | early 10th century | near Harrogate North Yorkshire 53°59′N 1°32′W / 53.99°N 1.54°W | 2007 | British Museum, London Yorkshire Museum, York | More than 617 silver coins, and 65 other items, including silver and gold armrings, neckrings and brooch fragments, as well as hacksilver, all placed inside a 9th-century gilt-silver vessel[46] | |
| Warton Hoard | early 10th century | Warton, near Carnforth Lancashire 54°08′49″N 2°45′58″W / 54.147°N 2.766°W | 1997 | Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster | 3 silver dirhems of the Samanid dynasty 6 pieces of cut silver weighing 116.49 g (4.109 oz)[47] | |
| Watlington Hoard | late 9th century | Watlington Oxfordshire 51°38′42″N 1°00′00″W / 51.645°N 1.000°W | 2015 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | About 210 silver coins from the reigns of Alfred the Great of Wessex and Ceolwulf II of Mercia, together with 15 silver ingots, 6 silver arm rings, 2 neck ring fragments, and one small piece of hack gold[48] |
Later Medieval hoards edit
Hoards dating to the later medieval period, from 1066 to about 1500, mostly comprise silver pennies, in some cases amounting to many thousands of coins, although the Fishpool Hoard contains over a thousand gold coins.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abergavenny Hoard | late 11th century | Abergavenny Monmouthshire 51°49′26″N 3°01′01″W / 51.824°N 3.017°W | 2002 | National Museum Cardiff | 199 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror[49] | |
| Baschurch Hoard | mid 13th century | Baschurch Shropshire 52°47′31″N 2°51′14″W / 52.792°N 2.854°W | 2007–2008 | Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery | 191 long cross pennies of Henry III of England, 1 penny of Alexander III of Scotland, and some coin fragments[50] | |
| Beverley Hoard | mid 13th century | Beverley East Yorkshire 53°50′42″N 0°25′37″W / 53.845°N 0.427°W | 2000 | British Museum, London | 448 short cross pennies 27 cut half pennies[51] | |
| Bootham Hoard | 15th century | York North Yorkshire 53°58′01″N 1°05′42″W / 53.967°N 1.095°W | 1953 | Yorkshire Museum, York | 908 silver coins of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.[52] | |
| Chesterton Lane Hoard | mid 14th century | Chesterton Lane, Cambridge Cambridgeshire 52°12′40″N 0°06′54″E / 52.211°N 0.115°E | 2000 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 9 gold coins 1806 silver coins[53][54] | |
| Chew Valley Hoard | mid 11th century | Chew Valley Somerset 51°21′00″N 2°36′00″W / 51.350°N 2.600°W | 2019 | 2,528 silver coins, including 1,236 coins of Harold II and 1,310 coins of William I[55] | ||
| Colchester Hoard (1902) | mid 13th century | High Street, Colchester Essex 51°53′24″N 0°54′11″E / 51.890°N 0.903°E | 1902 | British Museum, London | 11,000 – 12,000 silver pennies in a lead canister[56] | |
| Colchester Hoard (1969) | late 13th century | High Street, Colchester Essex 51°53′24″N 0°54′11″E / 51.890°N 0.903°E | 1969 | British Museum, London | over 14,000 silver pennies of Henry III in a lead canister[56] | |
| Cwm Nant Col Hoard | early 16th century | near Llanbedr Gwynedd 52°49′12″N 4°06′04″W / 52.820°N 4.101°W | 1918 | National Museum Cardiff | 1 late 13th or early 14th century copper alloy aquamanile in the shape of a stag, 1 5th century copper alloy ewer, 1 copper alloy tray, 1 bronze cauldron, 2 bronze skillets, 1 woodman's iron axe, and iron firedog fragments[57] | |
| Fauld Hoard | early 15th century | Fauld, Tutbury Staffordshire 52°50′N 1°44′W / 52.84°N 1.73°W | 2000 | Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | 114 silver groats[58] | |
| Fishpool Hoard | mid 15th century | Ravenshead Nottinghamshire 53°05′N 1°10′W / 53.08°N 1.17°W | 1966 | British Museum, London | 1,237 gold coins 8 pieces of jewellery 2 lengths of gold chain[59] | |
| Fillongley Hoard | early 13th century | Fillongley Warwickshire 52°28′55″N 1°35′17″W / 52.482°N 1.588°W | 1997 | Warwickshire Museum, Warwick | 2 silver brooches silver finger ring 127 short-cross pennies[60] | |
| Gayton Hoard | late 12th century | Gayton Northamptonshire 52°10′12″N 0°59′35″W / 52.170°N 0.993°W | 1998–1999 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 308 silver pennies 7 fragments[61] | |
| Glenluce Hoard | late 15th century | Glenluce sand-dunes Wigtownshire 54°51′00″N 4°52′59″W / 54.850°N 4.883°W | 1956 | 2 English silver coins 10 Scottish silver coins 99 Scottish billon coins 1 Scottish copper farthing[62] | ||
| Gorefield Hoard | early 14th century | Gorefield Cambridgeshire 52°40′59″N 0°05′31″E / 52.683°N 0.092°E | 1998 | British Museum, London Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 1,084 silver pennies, halfpennies and farthings[63] | |
| Llanddona Hoard | early 14th century | Llanddona Anglesey 53°17′38″N 4°08′20″W / 53.294°N 4.139°W | 1999, 2005–2006 | returned to finder | 970 silver pennies[64][65] | |
| Piddletrenthide Hoard (2008) | 1400–1412 | Piddletrenthide, Dorset 50°48′00″N 2°25′30″W / 50.800°N 2.425°W | 2008 | 293 Medieval silver coins, comprising 272 complete pennies, 2 broken pennies, 14 half groats, and 4 groats, found in a fragmentary pottery vessel.[66][67] | ||
| Reigate Hoard | mid 15th century | Reigate Surrey 51°13′48″N 0°11′17″W / 51.230°N 0.188°W | 1990 | dispersed | 135 gold nobles, half nobles and quarters 6,566 silver groats[68] | |
| Rhoneston Hoard | late 15th century | Rhoneston, near Dumfries Dumfriesshire 55°09′14″N 3°42′29″W / 55.154°N 3.708°W | 1961 | 7 English silver coins 6 Scottish silver coins 70 Scottish billon coins[69] | ||
| Roslin Hoard | late 13th/early 14th century | Roslin Midlothian | Spring Equinox of 2019 | National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh | Over 200 silver pennies mostly English of Edward I, some of Irish and Scottish from the reign of Alexander III with fragments of clay Jug in which they were deposited have been found on the day of Spring equinox in 2019 near the world famous Rosslyn Chapel by amateur historian Jaroslaw M. | |
| Rumney Castle Hoard | late 13th century | Rumney Castle Cardiff 51°30′12″N 3°08′23″W / 51.50342°N 3.13970°W | 1981 | 63 silver pennies from the reign of Edward I[70] | ||
| Ryther Hoard | late 15th century | Ryther North Yorkshire 53°50′42″N 1°10′05″W / 53.845°N 1.168°W | 1992 | Yorkshire Museum, York | 812 silver coins, mostly English groats, half-groats and pennies dating from the reigns of Edward I/II through Henry VII, in an unglazed drinking jug.[71] | |
| Tealby Hoard | late 12th century | Tealby Lincolnshire 53°24′00″N 0°15′54″W / 53.400°N 0.265°W | 1807 | 5,127 melted down at the Tower of London; rest dispersed. | 5,731 silver pennies of the reign of Henry II (dated 1158–1180), in a glazed earthenware pot.[72] | |
| Tutbury Hoard | early 14th century | Tutbury Staffordshire 52°51′N 1°41′W / 52.85°N 1.69°W | 1831 | dispersed | 360,000 silver coins (the largest hoard of coins ever discovered in Britain)[73][74] | |
| Twynholm Hoard | early 14th century | Twynholm Dumfries and Galloway 54°51′47″N 4°05′24″W / 54.863°N 4.090°W | 2013 | 322 silver coins dating from 1249 to 1325, including Scottish coins from the reigns of Alexander III and John Balliol, and English coins from the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III[75] | ||
| Wainfleet Hoard | late 12th century | Wainfleet Lincolnshire 53°06′29″N 0°14′13″E / 53.108°N 0.237°E | 1990 | British Museum, London | 380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies in a green-glazed ceramic bottle[76] |
Post-Medieval hoards edit
Most hoards from the post-medieval period, later than 1500, date to the period of the English Civil War (1642–1651), from which time over 200 hoards are known.[77]
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotsham Hoard | mid 17th century | Abbotsham Devon 51°00′58″N 4°15′00″W / 51.016°N 4.250°W | 2001 | Bideford Museum | 9 gold coins 425 silver coins[78] | |
| Ackworth Hoard | mid 17th century | High Ackworth West Yorkshire 53°39′18″N 1°20′06″W / 53.655°N 1.335°W | 2011 | Pontefract Museum | 52 gold coins, 539 silver coins, and a gold ring inscribed "When this you see, remember me", in a clay Wrenthorpe ware pot.[79] | |
| Alderwasley Hoard | mid 17th century | Alderwasley Derbyshire 53°04′23″N 1°31′26″W / 53.073°N 1.524°W | 1971 | Derby Museum and Art Gallery | 907g of silver clippings from coins issued by Philip and Mary (1553–1558), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), James I (1603–1625), and Charles I (1625–1649), stored in an earthenware jar.[80][note 4] | |
| Asthall Hoard | early 16th century | Asthall Oxfordshire 51°48′N 1°35′W / 51.80°N 1.58°W | 2007 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 210 English gold angels and half-angel coins dating to the period 1470–1526[81] | |
| Bishops Waltham Hoard | early 18th century | Bishops Waltham Hampshire 50°57′14″N 1°12′47″W / 50.954°N 1.213°W | ? | 7,083 forged French 30-denier coins dated 1711[82] | ||
| Bitterley Hoard | mid 17th century | Bitterley Shropshire 52°23′42″N 2°38′42″W / 52.395°N 2.645°W | 2011 | 1 gold coin and 137 silver coins (half crowns and shillings) with a leather purse in a tyg[83] | ||
| Breckenbrough Hoard | mid 17th century | Breckenbrough North Yorkshire 54°14′47″N 1°25′38″W / 54.246480°N 1.4271327°W | June 1985 | Yorkshire Museum | 30 gold and 1552 silver coins, within a ceramic Ryedale ware vessel, and two receipts for cheese.[84] | |
| Cheapside Hoard | late 16th to early 17th century | Cheapside, London | 1912 | Museum of London, British Museum, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Over 400 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery[85] | |
| Deal Hoard | mid 16th century | Deal Kent 51°13′23″N 1°24′04″E / 51.223°N 1.401°E | 2000 | British Museum, London | 191 base silver coins within a linen bag inside a pot[86] | |
| Ellerby Area Hoard | 18th century | Ellerby East Riding of Yorkshire 53°49′N 0°13′W / 53.82°N 0.22°W5 | 2020 | Dispersed into private collections | 266 gold coins within a stoneware vessel. | |
| Hackney Hoard | mid 20th century (1940) | Hackney London 51°34′16″N 0°04′52″W / 51.571°N 0.081°W | 2007 | British Museum, London | 80 American Double eagle gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913[87][88] | |
| Haddiscoe Hoard | mid 17th century | Haddiscoe Norfolk 52°31′30″N 1°37′12″E / 52.525°N 1.620°E | 2003 | Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth | 316 silver coins[89][90] | |
| Ham Green Hoard | mid 17th century | Ham Green Worcestershire 52°31′30″N 1°37′12″E / 52.525°N 1.620°E | 1981 | Museums Worcestershire | 86 silver coins (mostly shillings and sixpences) in a salt glazed stoneware bottle which was buried beneath the floor of the pantry in a cottage, the coins mostly dating to the Civil War period, but the latest coins minted 1661/1662.[91] | |
| Hartford Hoard | early 16th century | Hartford Cambridgeshire 52°20′13″N 0°09′32″W / 52.337°N 0.159°W | 1964 | British Museum, London | 1,108 silver groats from the reigns of Edward IV, Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VII, and double patards of Charles the Bold[92] | |
| Lincoln Spanish-American gold hoards | early 19th century | North Kesteven Lincolnshire 53°11′06″N 0°35′24″W / 53.185°N 0.59°W | 1928 2010 | 24 Spanish-American gold 8-escudo coins minted between 1790 and 1801 (18 discovered in 1928, and 6 discovered in 2010)[93] | ||
| Lindsey Hoard | 15th to 17th century | Lindsey Suffolk | 2020 | 1,061 silver coins were found on land belonging to the Lindsey Rose pub, dating back between the 15th to 17th centuries.[94] | ||
| Mason Hoard[note 5] | mid 16th century | Lindisfarne Northumberland 55°40′16″N 1°48′04″W / 55.671°N 1.801°W | 2003 | Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne | 10 gold and 7 silver coins, including 11 English coins dating from the reigns of Henry VI through Elizabeth I and 6 coins from France, Saxony, the Netherlands and the Papal States, in a mid-16th century German jug.[95] | |
| Middleham Hoard | mid 17th century | Middleham North Yorkshire 54°16′47″N 1°50′24″W / 54.2797°N 1.8399°W | 1993 | Dispersed amongst various museums and private collections, including Yorkshire Museum, York | 5,099 silver coins, comprising 4,772 English coins of Edward VI through Charles I, 31 Scottish coins, 10 Irish coins, 245 coins from the Spanish Netherlands, and 2 coins from the Spanish New World. The coins were found in three pots from two different pits, and were probably deposited at slightly different dates.[96] | |
| Mitton Hoard | 15th century | Great Mitton Lancashire 53°50′46″N 2°26′31″W / 53.846°N 2.442°W | 2009 | Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire | 11 silver coins or fragments, including one or two from France.[97] | |
| Nether Stowey Hoard | mid 17th century | Nether Stowey Somerset 51°09′07″N 3°09′11″W / 51.152°N 3.153°W | 2008 | Somerset County Museum,Taunton | Silverware, including four spoons, a goblet and a bell salt, in an incomplete earthenware vessel[98] | |
| Short Hoard[note 6] | mid 16th century | Lindisfarne Northumberland 55°40′16″N 1°48′04″W / 55.671°N 1.801°W | 1962 | 50 English silver sixpences and groats, the latest dating to 1562 during the reign of Elizabeth II, in a mid-16th century German jug.[95] | ||
| Tidenham Hoard | mid 17th century | Tidenham Gloucestershire 51°40′N 2°38′W / 51.66°N 2.64°W | 1999 | Chepstow Museum | 1 gold coin 117 silver coins[99] | |
| Totnes Hoard | mid 17th century | Totnes Devon 50°25′55″N 3°41′02″W / 50.432°N 3.684°W | 1930s | Totnes Museum | 176 silver coins of England, Scotland, Ireland and Spanish Netherlands[100] | |
| Tregwynt Hoard | mid 17th century | Tregwynt Pembrokeshire 51°58′12″N 5°04′23″W / 51.970°N 5.073°W | 1996 | National Museum Wales, Cardiff | 33 gold coins 467 silver coins a gold ring[77] | |
| Warkworth Hoard | early 16th century | Warkworth Northumberland 55°20′24″N 1°36′43″W / 55.340°N 1.6120°W | 2017 | Private ownership | 128 coins, comprising groat and half-groat coins from the reigns of Edward IV (r. 1461–1470 and 1471–1483) and Henry VII (r. 1485–1509), as well as nine coins issued by Charles the Bold when he was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477.[101] | |
| Warmsworth Hoard | early 17th century | Warmsworth South Yorkshire 53°29′53″N 1°10′55″W / 53.498°N 1.182°W | 1999 | Doncaster Museum | 122 silver coins pottery fragments bronze alloy spoon[102] | |
| Weston-sub-Edge Hoard | mid 17th century | Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucestershire 52°04′05″N 1°49′01″W / 52.068°N 1.817°W | 1981 | Corinium Museum, Cirencester | 307 silver and 2 gold coins.[103] |
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Notes edit
- ^ The hoard was uncovered when preparing a burial ground in an area called Harkirke, or Harkirk (meaning "hoary or grey church"), which is now park land. The only record of the coins was a copperplate engraving of thirty five of them which was reproduced in a book by John Spelman, published in 1678.
- ^ The Ainsbrook Hoard is named after the two men who discovered the hoard, Mark Ainsley and Geoffrey Bambrook; it was covered in a special episode of the Channel 4 programme Time Team, first broadcast 14 January 2008. The programme was sceptical about the Viking origins of the hoard, and the location of the find was initially kept secret "to avoid the location becoming known to unscrupulous 'nighthawk' detectorists".[27]
- ^ The Eye hoard was not declared to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but was illegally sold to dealers by the finders, who were convicted of theft and concealing the find in 2019. Only 31 of the coins, a silver ingot, and three pieces of jewellery have been recovered.[34]
- ^ The Alderwasley Hoard was found a few metres away from the site of another hoard of clippings in a ceramic jar, weighing 3.6kg, which was discovered in 1846, and subsequently melted down to make silver altarware for the Alderwasley church.[80]
- ^ The Mason Hoard is named after its discover, Richard Mason, a builder who found the jug when working on an extension to a modern house in Lindisfarne; he did not realize the jug contained any coins until 2011. The Mason hoard was found at exactly the same location that the 1962 Short Hoard had been found at.
- ^ The Short Hoard is named after its discover, Alan Short, a builder who found the jug when working on a modern house in Lindisfarne. The Mason Hoard was found at the same location in 2003.
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External links edit
- Checklist of Coin Hoards from the British Isles, c.450-1180