The list of hoards in Britain comprises the significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, metal objects, scrap metal and other valuable items that have been discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and the Isle of Man. 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.
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The table below lists hoards that are dated to the Neolithic period, approximately 4000 to 2000 BC.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Ayton East Field Hoard | 30th to 25th century BC | East Ayton North Yorkshire |
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] |
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York Hoard | 30th century BC | York North Yorkshire |
1868 | Yorkshire Museum | ~70 flint tools and weapons[2] |
The table below list hoards that are associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Auchnacree Hoard | 23rd to 21st century BC | Auchnacree Angus |
1921 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 2 bronze knives 3 bronze axeheads 1 bronze armlet[3] |
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Boughton Malherbe Hoard | 9th century BC | Boughton Malherbe Kent |
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.[4][5] | |
Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard | Bronze Age | Burnham-on-Crouch Essex |
2010 | Colchester and Ipswich Museums | Pottery vessel filled with bronze axes and other metalwork[6] | |
Burton Hoard | 13th to mid 12th century BC | Burton, Wrexham Clwyd |
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[7] |
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Collette Hoard[note 1] | 10th to 9th century BC | Berwick upon Tweed Northumberland |
2005 | Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne | 6 socketed axes, 6 gold lock rings, and various bracelets, rings and pins[9] | |
Corbridge Hoard (1835) | Middle Bronze Age | Corbridge Northumberland |
1835 | Blackgate Museum Bailiffgate Museum |
fragments of two spearheads pieces of dagger blades a flanged axe[10] |
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Crundale Hoard | 8th to 9th century BC | Crundale Kent |
2003 | 188 fragments (including axe, chisel, palstave, hammer, gouge, knife, sickle, sword, bracelet, ring, and ingots)[11] | ||
Hollingbourne Hoard | 10th to 9th century BC | Hollingbourne Kent |
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[12] |
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Husband's Bosworth Hoard | Late Bronze Age | Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire |
1801 | unknown | 4 looped and socketed celts 2 socketed celts 3 socketed gouges 2 spearheads 1 flat ferrule[13] |
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Isleham Hoard | 8th century BC | Isleham Cambridgeshire |
1959 | West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge |
6,500 pieces of worked and unworked bronze[14] | |
Lambourn Hoard | 14th to 12th century BC | Lambourn Berkshire |
2004 | West Berkshire Museum | 2 gold armlets 3 gold bracelets[15] |
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Langdon Bay Hoard | 13th century BC | In the English Channel at Langdon Bay Kent |
1974 | British Museum, London[note 2] | 360 items of scrap metal, including bronze axes of a French type[17] | |
Langton Matravers Hoard | 7th century BC | Langton Matravers, near Swanage Dorset |
2008 | Dorset County Museum, Dorchester | 276 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[18] | |
Lockington Hoard | 21st to 20th century BC | Lockington Leicestershire |
1994 | British Museum, London | Fragments of two Beaker style pots 1 copper alloy dagger 2 embossed gold-sheet armlets[19] |
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Manorbier Hoard | 10th to 9th century BC | Manorbier Dyfed |
2010 | 19 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[20] | ||
Mickleham Hoard | 10th to 11th century BC | Mickleham Surrey |
2003 | 2 socketed axes 1 chape[21] |
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Migdale Hoard | 23rd to 20th century BC | Bonar Bridge Sutherland |
1990 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 1 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[22] |
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Milton Keynes Hoard | mid 12th to late 9th century BC | Monkston, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire |
2000 | British Museum, London | 2 gold torcs 3 gold bracelets 1 bronze fragment 1 pottery vessel[23] |
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Moor Sand Hoard | 13th century BC | Off Prawle Point, near Salcombe Devon |
1977 | British Museum, London | six bronze swords or sword fragments and two bronze palstaves[17] | |
New Bradwell (or Wolverton) Hoard | mid 12th to late 9th century BC | New Bradwell, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire |
1879 | Buckinghamshire County Museum | 9 socketed axes 3 broken axes 1 palstave 2 spearheads a leaf-shaped sword (broken into 4 pieces)[24] |
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Parc-y-Meirch Hoard | 9th century BC | Dinorben hillfort, near Abergele Conwy |
pre-1868 | National Museum Cardiff | over 100 items items of bronze horse harness fittings[25] | |
Rossett Hoard | 10th to 9th century BC | Rossett Wrexham |
2002 | National Museum Wales | 1 faceted axe 1 tanged knife 4 pieces of gold bracelet stored inside the axe[26] |
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St Erth hoards | 8th to 9th century BC | St Erth Cornwall |
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[27] |
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St Mellons Hoard | Late Bronze Age | St Mellons, Cardiff Glamorgan |
1983 | National Museum Cardiff | 25 bronze socketed axes and one casting jet[28] | |
Stogursey Hoard (1870) | 8th century BC | Wick Farm, Stogursey Somerset |
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[29] |
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Towednack Hoard | 10th century BC | Towednack Cornwall |
1931 | British Museum, London | 2 twisted gold neckrings 4 gold bracelets 3 lengths of gold rod[30] |
The table below list hoards that are associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Alton hoards | mid 1st century AD | Alton Hampshire |
1996 | British Museum, London | 50 gold staters of Commios, Tincomarus and Epillus (A hoard) 206 gold staters of Tincomarus and Verica (B hoard) 1 Roman gold ring 1 Roman gold bracelet[31] |
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Aylesbury Hoard | mid 1st century BC | near Aylesbury Buckinghamshire |
1998–1999 | Buckinghamshire County Museum | 40 gold staters[32] | |
Beaminster Hoard | early 1st century | Beaminster Dorset |
2003 | Dorset County Museum | 160 silver staters[33] | |
Beverley Hoard (1999) | mid 1st century BC | Beverley East Yorkshire |
1999–2007 | Hull Museums Collections British Museum, London |
110 gold staters[34][35] | |
Climping Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Climping West Sussex |
2000 | British Museum (8) | 18 gold staters[note 3][37] | |
Farmborough Hoard | early 1st century | Farmborough Somerset |
1984 | British Museum, London | 61 gold staters[38] | |
Great Leighs Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Great Leighs Essex |
1998–1999 | Chelmsford Museums | 40 gold staters[39] | |
Hallaton Treasure | 1st century AD | Hallaton Leicestershire |
2000 | Harborough Museum | 5,000 silver and gold coins a silver gilt Roman parade helmet jewellery[40] |
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Honingham Hoard | mid 1st century AD | Honingham Norfolk |
1954 | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 341 Iceni silver coins[41] | |
Ipswich Hoard (1968-1969) | 1st century BC | Ipswich Suffolk |
1968–1969 | British Museum | 6 torcs | |
Kimbolton Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Kimbolton Cambridgeshire |
2010 | 67 gold staters and one gold quarter-stater[42] | ||
Little Horwood Hoard | 1st century BC | Little Horwood, Aylesbury Vale Buckinghamshire |
2006–2007 | Buckinghamshire County Museum | 75 staters found over an 11 month period which are said to be part of the Whaddon Chase Hoard[43][44][45] | |
Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard | 4th century BC to 1st century AD | Llyn Cerrig Bach, near Valley Anglesey |
1942 | National Museum Cardiff | Votive objects deposited over a period of several hundred years, comprising over 150 items of bronze and iron, including 7 swords, 6 spearheads, fragments of a shield, part of a bronze trumpet, 2 gang chains, fragments of iron wagon tyres and horse gear, blacksmith's tools, fragments of two cauldrons, and iron bars[46] | |
Llyn Fawr Hoard | 8th to 7th century BC | Llyn Fawr Lake, Rhigos Mid Glamorgan |
1909–1913 | National Museum Cardiff | Bronze cauldron, a number of chisels, sickles and socketed axes, a sword, a spearhead, a razor, and horse harness equipment[47] | |
North Foreland Hoard | early 1st century BC | North Foreland Kent |
1999 | Quex Park Museum, Birchington-on-Sea | 63 potin (a bronze alloy with high tin content) coins[48] | |
Salisbury Hoard | 3rd century BC[note 4] | Netherhampton, near Salisbury Wiltshire |
1988 | British Museum, London | over 600 objects, mostly miniature bronze versions of shields, tools, daggers and spearheads[49] | |
Scole Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Scole Norfolk |
1982–1983 | 202 Iceni silver coins and 87 Roman coins[50] | ||
Silsden Hoard | mid 1st century AD | Silsden West Yorkshire |
1998 | Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley | 27 gold coins and a finger ring[51] | |
Snettisham Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Ken Hill, near Snettisham Norfolk |
1948–1973 | British Museum, London Norwich Castle Museum |
over 150 gold torc fragments (over 70 of which form complete torcs), and various objects made of metal and jet[52] | |
Stirling Hoard | 3rd to 1st century BC | Near Blair Drummond Stirlingshire |
2009 | National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 4 gold torcs[53] | |
Syngenta Hoard[note 5] | mid 1st century BC | Jealott's Hill, near Bracknell Berkshire |
1998 | Reading Museum | 58 gold coins[54] | |
Tal-y-Llyn Hoard | 1st century AD | near Tal-y-llyn Lake, Cadair Idris Gwynedd |
1963 | National Museum Cardiff | 1 brass plaque, fragments from two brass shields, several decorated brass plates (possibly from a ceremonial cart), and part of a Roman lock[55] | |
Whaddon Chase Hoard | 1st century BC | near Whaddon, Aylesbury Vale Buckinghamshire |
1849 | between 450[56] and 800[57] and 2,000 gold staters[43] — see also Little Horwood Hoard | ||
Wickham Market Hoard (2008) | late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD | Wickham Market Suffolk |
2008 | Ipswich Museum | 840 gold staters[58][59] | |
Winchester Hoard | 1st century BC | near Winchester Hampshire |
2000 | British Museum | 4 gold brooches 1 gold chain 1 gold bracelet (complete) 2 gold bracelet halves 2 gold torcs[60] |
The table below list hoards that are associated with the period of Romano-British culture when 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. Most Roman hoards are comprised mostly or entirely of coins, and are relatively common in Britain, with over 1,200 known examples.[61]
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Agden Hoard | late 3rd century | Woolstencroft Farm, Agden Cheshire |
1957 | Grosvenor Museum, Chester | ~2,500 antoniniani and the lower half of jar[62] | |
Aldbury Hoard | late 3rd century | near Aldbury Hertfordshire |
1870 | 116 brass coins fragments of brass plate half a brass ring silver wire ring 2 brooches[63] |
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Alton Barnes Hoard | late 3rd century | Alton Barnes Wiltshire |
2005 | Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes | 3,854 silver and bronze Roman coins[64] | |
Backworth Hoard | late 2nd century | Backworth Tyne and Wear |
1811 | British Museum | silver skillet covered by silver mirror 5 gold rings 1 silver serpent ring 2 gold chains with wheel and crescent pendants 2 silver-gilt brooches 1 gold bracelet 3 silver spoons 280 denarii 2 brass coins 1 silver dish[65] |
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Baldock Hoard | 3rd to 4th century | near Baldock Hertfordshire |
2002 | British Museum, London | 26 gold and silver objects including gold jewellery, 7 gold votive plaques, 12 silver votive plaques, two silver model arms, and a silver figurine[66] | |
Barkway Hoard | early 3rd century | near Barkway Hertfordshire |
1743 | British Museum, London | 5 silver and bronze objects, including one silver-gilt votive plaque dedicated to Mars, and two silver votive plaques dedicated to Vulcan[67] | |
Beckfoot Hoard | unknown | Beckfoot, near Silloth Cumbria |
2010 | 308 Roman coins in a pot[68] | ||
Beech Bottom Dyke Hoard | early 2nd century | Beech Bottom Dyke, St Albans Hertfordshire |
1932 | dispersed | ~100 silver denarii[69] | |
Bishopswood Hoard | mid 4th century | Bishopswood, near Walford, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire |
1895 | Hereford Museum and Art Gallery | 17,548 coins[70] | |
Boothstown Hoard | late 3rd century | Boothstown Greater Manchester |
1947 | British Museum, London Manchester Museum |
550 bronze coins dated between 259 and 278 AD found in two pottery urns[71] | |
Braithwell Hoard | late 3rd century | Braithwell South Yorkshire |
2002 | British Museum (4) Doncaster Museum (1) |
1,331 base silver radiates 1 base metal denarius 13 sherds of greyware jar[72][73] |
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Breamore hoards | late 3rd century | Breamore Hampshire |
1998 (B) | returned to finder (B) | Hoard A: 1,782 base silver radiates Hoard B:398 base silver radiates and pot[74] |
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Bredon Hill Hoard | mid 4th century | Bredon Hill Worcestershire |
2011 | 3,784 debased silver coins in a clay pot[75] | ||
Capheaton Treasure | 2nd or 3rd century | Capheaton Northumberland |
1747 | British Museum, London | 5 silver vessel handles, and 1 fragment of a silver trulla base[76] | |
Chaddesley Corbett Hoard | early 4th century | Chaddesley Corbett Worcestershire |
1999 and 2003 | Worcs County Museum, Hartlebury Castle | 434 base silver nummi 38 sherds of pottery[77][78] |
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Chalgrove hoards | late 3rd century | Chalgrove Oxfordshire |
1989 (I) 2003 (II) |
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2003) | I: 4,145 coins ([79] II: 4,957 base silver coins[80] |
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Chells Manor Hoard | late 3rd century | Chells Manor Estate, Stevenage Hertfordshire |
1986 | 2,579 coins[81] | ||
Chorleywood Hoard | mid 4th century | Chorleywood Hertfordshire |
1977 | British Museum (244) Verulamium Museum, St Albans (446) |
4,358 coins[82] | |
Clapton Hoard | late 3rd century | Clapton in Gordano | 1922-1924 | Museum of Somerset (59) and Nicholson Museum, Australia (over 3400) | 3500 Roman bronze coins, (mainly Gallienus to Claudius II)[83] | |
Corbridge Hoard (1964) | mid 2nd century | Corbridge Northumberland |
1964 | Corbridge Roman Site Museum Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne |
various finished and unfinished iron products, including pieces of armour, a sword scabbard, javelinheads, spearheads, arrowheads, artillery bolts, and various knives, nails, spikes and cramps[84] | |
Corbridge Treasure | 4th century | Corbridge Northumberland |
1731–1760 | British Museum, London | 5 pieces of silverware, including a lanx[85] (serving platter), a bowl and a vase[86][87] | |
Cunetio Hoard | late 3rd century | Cunetio Roman town, Mildenhall Wiltshire |
1978 | 54,951 coins[88] | ||
Curridge Hoard | early 3rd century | Curridge Berkshire |
1998–1999 | West Berkshire Heritage | 425 bronze sestertius or dupondii/asses[89] | |
Didcot Hoard | late 2nd century | Didcot Oxfordshire |
1995 | British Museum, London | 126 gold coins[61] | |
Edge Hill Hoard (also known as the South Warwickshire Roman Hoard) | mid 1st century | Edge Hill Warwickshire |
2008 | Warwickshire Museum, Market Hall, Warwick | 1,146 silver denarii in a small pot, coins dating between 190 BC and AD 63–64[90] | |
Ethy Hoard | late 3rd century | Ethy, near Lerryn Cornwall |
2000 | Royal Cornwall Museum | 1,095 base silver radiates coarseware jar[91] |
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Eye Hoard | late 4th century | Near Eye, Suffolk Suffolk |
1781 | Largest number (600) of Roman gold coins[92] | ||
Frampton Hoard | late 3rd century | Frampton Dorset |
1998 | returned to finder | 511 base silver radiates and pot[93] | |
Frome Hoard | early 4th century | Near Frome Somerset |
2010 | British Museum, London | 52,503 coins (5 silver, the rest debased silver and bronze)[94] | |
Grassmoor Hoard | 4th century | Grassmoor Derbyshire |
2001 | Chesterfield Museum and British Museum | 1,421 silver coins[95] | |
Hickleton Hoard | late 2nd century | Hickleton South Yorkshire |
2001 | Doncaster Museum | 350 silver coins 36 copper-alloy coins[96] |
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High Green Hoard | late 3rd century | High Green South Yorkshire |
2001 | 738 base silver radiates[97] | ||
Hockwold Hoard (1962) | late 1st century | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk |
1962 | British Museum, London | 4 silver cups 4 silver handles 1 silver pedestal[98] |
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Hockwold Hoard (1999) | mid 4th century | Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk |
1999 | British Museum | 816 copper alloy coins[99][100] | |
Howe Hoard | late 1st century | Howe Norfolk |
1981–2002 | British Museum | 15 gold aurei 131 silver denarii[101] |
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Hoxne Hoard | early 5th century | Hoxne Suffolk |
1992 | British Museum, London | 14,865 coins (569 gold, 14,272 silver, 24 bronze) 29 items of gold jewellery 98 silver spoons and ladles 1 silver tigress 4 silver bowls 1 small dish 1 silver beaker 1 silver vase or juglet 4 pepper pots[102] |
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Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks Hoard | late 3rd century | Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks, Colchester Essex |
2011 | Colchester Museum (to be donated to) | two pots, one empty and one containing 1,247 coins[103] | |
Itteringham Hoard | late 2nd century | Itteringham Norfolk |
2000 | British Museum | 3 silver finger rings 2 copper-alloy cosmetic sets 1 bronze key 62 silver denarii 42 copper-alloy coins pot fragments[104] |
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Kingston Deverill Hoard | late 1st century | Kingston Deverill Wiltshire |
2005 | Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum | 3 bronze trullei or patera (shallow handled bowls) 2 bronze wine strainers[105] |
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Kirton in Lindsey hoards | late 3rd century | Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire |
1999 (1) 2001, 2004 (2) |
6 coins at British Museum | Hoard 1: 875 base silver radiates[106] Hoard 2: 111 base silver radiates (2001);[107] 85 base silver radiates (2004)[108] |
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Langley with Hardley Hoard | late 3rd century | Langley with Hardley Norfolk |
1997, 1999, 2001, 2004 | returned to finder | 2,044 base silver radiates[109][110][111][112] | |
Langtoft hoards | early 4th century | Langtoft East Yorkshire |
2000 | Yorkshire Museum British Museum |
Hoard A: 976 base silver coins and 21 sherds of a jar Hoard B: 924 base silver nummi and 9 sherds of a pot[113] |
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Lightwood Hoard | late 3rd century | Lightwood Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire |
1960 | Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | 2,461 coins and two silver bracelets in an earthenware pot[114] | |
Little Brickhill hoards (1962–1964) | 4th century | Little Brickhill, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire |
1962–1964 | Bletchley Archaeological Society | 1962 251 loose coins ~400 corroded mass of coins 1964 4th c. pottery and sherds 13th century jug (part) 11th–12th c. sherds 2nd c. Samian ware fragments glass and jet beads 43 coins[115] |
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Little Brickhill hoards (1967 & 1987) | late 2nd century | Little Brickhill, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire |
1967 1987 |
British Museum Buckinghamshire County Museum |
1967 296 silver denarii hearth tools pottery bronze brooch and terret ring 3rd to 4th c. sherds 1987 627 silver denarii[116] |
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Little Orme Hoard (1981) | late 3rd or early 4th century | Little Orme, near Llandudno Conwy |
1981 | National Museum Cardiff | 5 ox-head bucket-mounts 1 razor handle 1 knife or chisel handle 2 brooches 1 harness ring 68 coins[117] |
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Llanvaches Hoard | mid 2nd century | Llanvaches Monmouthshire |
2006 | National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon | 599 silver denarii[118] | |
M1 Motorway Hoard | late 3rd century | M1 motorway Leicestershire (see note) |
1980 (see note) | 207 silver denarii 228 base-silver radiates 2 grey ware pottery fragments[note 6][119] |
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Maundown Hoard | late 3rd century | Maundown, near Wiveliscombe Somerset |
2006 | Museum of Somerset, Taunton | 2,118 bronze coins[120] | |
Mildenhall Treasure | mid 4th century | Mildenhall Suffolk |
1942 | British Museum, London | 34 items of silver tableware[121] | |
Monknash Hoard | mid 2nd century | Monknash South Glamorgan |
2000 | National Museum Wales | 103 silver denarii grey ware pot[122] |
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Nether Compton Hoard | mid 4th century | Nether Compton Dorset |
1989 | 22,670 coins[123] | ||
Newport Pagnell Hoard | mid 4th century | near Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire |
2006 | over 1,400 bronze coins pottery[124] |
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Osgodby Hoard | 2nd century | Osgodby Lincolnshire |
1999 | British Museum | 44 silver denarii finger ring bronze brooch coarseware pottery vessel[125] |
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Patching Hoard | mid 5th century | Patching West Sussex |
1997 | Worthing Museum and Art Gallery | 13 Roman and 10 Visigothic gold solidi 21 Roman, 3 Visigothic, and 3 unidentified silver coins 2 gold rings 54 pieces of scrap silver, including a scabbard fitting[126] |
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Prestwood hoards | early 3rd to early 4th century | Prestwood Buckinghamshire |
1999 and 2005 | Buckinghamshire County Museum | Hoard A: 112 silver denarii and 1 radiate Hoard B: 735 base silver nummi and pot fragment[127][128] |
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Rhayader Treasure | 2nd to 3rd century | Rhayader Powys |
1899 | 1 gold ring with onyx stone; 11 pieces of gold necklet with 8 stones, 1 piece of scroll and a small embossed section; 4 pieces of gold armlet[129] | ||
Ribchester Hoard | late 1st to early 2nd century | Ribchester Lancashire |
1796 | British Museum, London | Bronze cavalry helmet, a number of patera, pieces of a vase, a bust of Minerva, fragments of two basins, and several plates.[130] | |
Rogiet Hoard | late 3rd century | Rogiet Monmouthshire |
1998 | National Museum of Wales, Cardiff | 3,778 silver coins[131] | |
Shapwick hoards (1936–1938) | early 4th to mid 5th century | Shapwick Somerset |
1936–1938 | Museum of Somerset, Taunton British Museum |
pewter cup, saucer, platter, jug, canister, bowl with pedestal pottery beaker 245 silver siliquae 1,170 bronze coins bronze cased wooden stave tankard bronze bowl[132] |
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Shapwick Hoard (1978) | 4th century | Shapwick Somerset |
1978 | over 1,000 copper coins pewter vessel[133] |
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Shapwick Hoard (1998) | mid 3rd century | Shapwick Somerset |
1998 | Somerset County Museum, Taunton | 9,262 coins[134][135] | |
Shillington Hoard | late 1st century | Shillington Bedfordshire |
1998–1999 | Luton Museum | Hoard A: 127 gold aurei Hoard B: 18 silver denarii[136] |
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Shiptonthorpe Hoard | early 4th century | Shiptonthorpe East Yorkshire |
2000 | Hull and East Riding Museum | 503 base silver coins pot fragments[137] |
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Shoreham Hoard | late 3rd century | Shoreham-by-Sea West Sussex |
1999 | 4,105 base silver denarii and radiates pottery vessel[106] |
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Shrewsbury Hoard | mid 4th century | near Shrewsbury Shropshire |
2009 | 9,315 bronze coins[138] | ||
Silchester Hoard (1893) | late 2nd century | Silchester Hampshire |
1893 | British Museum, London | 253 silver coins[139] | |
Silchester Hoard (1985–1987) | early 5th century | Silchester Hampshire |
1985–1987 | Reading Museum | about 39 silver and bronze coins 3 gold rings[140] |
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Snettisham Jeweller's Hoard | mid 2nd century | Snettisham Norfolk |
1985 | British Museum, London | 83 silver coins, 27 bronze coins, and quantities of gems, jewellery and scrap metal[141] | |
Snodland Hoard | mid 4th century | Snodland Kent |
2006 | more than 3,600 bronze coins[142] | ||
Stanchester Hoard | early 5th century | Wilcot, Vale of Pewsey Wiltshire |
2000 | Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes | 1,166 coins (3 gold, 1,162 silver, 1 bronze)[143] | |
Stogursey Hoard (1999) | late 3rd century | Stogursey Somerset |
1999 and 2002 | 3 coins at British Museum some others at Somerset |
1,097 base silver radiates pottery vessel remains[109][note 7] 50 copper alloy coins[145] |
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Stony Stratford Hoard | 3rd century | Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire |
1789 | British Museum | 2 chain headresses, 3 fibulae, various fragments of silver plaques with figures of, or inscriptions to, Roman gods, in an urn[146] | |
Sully Hoard (1899) | late 3rd century | Sully, Vale of Glamorgan South Glamorgan |
1899 | British Museum, London | 322 coins (7 gold, some silver, and rest bronze) 4 gold rings[147] |
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Sully Hoard (2008) | mid 4th century | Sully, Vale of Glamorgan South Glamorgan |
2008 | National Museum Wales | 2,366 bronze coins in one pot 3,547 bronze coins in another pot[148] |
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Thetford Hoard | mid 4th century | near Thetford Norfolk |
1979 | British Museum, London | 33 silver spoons 22 gold finger rings 4 pendants several necklaces a gold buckle[149] |
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Thornbury Hoard | mid 4th century | Thornbury Gloucestershire |
2004 | Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Thornbury Museum |
11,460 coins[150] | |
Tinwell Hoard | late 3rd century | Tinwell Rutland |
1999 | Rutland County Museum | 2,831 base-silver coins[151] | |
Traprain Treasure | early 5th century | Traprain Law, near Haddington East Lothian |
1919 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 53 pounds of sliced up silver tableware some Christian items a Roman officer's uniform 4 coins[152] |
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Upchurch Hoard | early 4th century | Upchurch Kent |
1950 | private collection | 37 bronze coins[153] | |
Walton (Milton Keynes) Hoard | early 4th century | Walton, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire |
1987 | 97 bronze coins[154] | ||
Water Newton Treasure | 4th century | Water Newton Cambridgeshire |
1975 | British Museum, London | 27 silver items, including jugs, hanging-bowls, bowls and votive plaques 1 gold votive plaque[155] |
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Welbourn Hoard | mid 4th century | Welbourn Lincolnshire |
1998 | 8 coins at British Museum | 436 base silver nummi Shelly Ware container[156] |
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West Bagborough Hoard | mid 4th century | West Bagborough Somerset |
2001 | Somerset County Museum, Taunton | 669 Roman coins and 64 pieces of hacksilver[157] | |
Westhall Hoard | mid 2nd century[note 8] | Westhall Suffolk |
British Museum, London Norwich Castle Museum |
9 bronze terrets and some Roman coins in a bronze bowl[158] | ||
Weston Underwood Hoard | 1st and 2nd century | Weston Underwood, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire |
1858 | Buckinghamshire County Museum | 166 silver denarii 10 other coins earthenware vessel Samian bowl various sherds and other pottery[159] |
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Wickham Market Hoard (1984) | late 3rd century | Wickham Market Suffolk |
1984 | pot containing 1,587 coins[160] |
The table below lists hoards that are associated with the Anglo-Saxon culture, from the 6th century to 1066.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Appledore Hoard | mid 11th century | Appledore Kent |
1997–1998 | British Museum | 490 pennies (1997) 12 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor (1998)[161] |
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Bamburgh Hoard | mid 9th century | Bamburgh Northumberland |
1999 and 2004 | Museum of Antiquities | 384 base metal stycas copper alloy fragments bronze folding balance[162][163] |
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Brantham Hoard | 10th century | Brantham Suffolk |
2003 | Fitzwilliam Museum | 90 silver pennies[164] | |
Canterbury-St Martin's hoard | late 6th or early 7th century | Canterbury Kent |
1840s | World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool | 8 items, including 3 gold coins, and two pieces of jewellery[165] | |
Crondall Hoard | mid 7th century | Crondall Hampshire |
1828 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 100 small gold coins and 2 cloisonné pins[166] | |
Harkirke (or Harkirk) Hoard | early 10th century | Sefton Borough Merseyside |
1611 | unknown[note 9] | ~300 Viking and Kufic coins[167] | |
Ipswich Hoard (1863) | 10th century | Ipswich Suffolk |
1863 | 150 coins (75 now known)[168] | ||
Pentney Treasure | early 9th century | Pentney Norfolk |
1978 | British Museum, London | 6 silver disc brooches[169] | |
Staffordshire Hoard | 7th or 8th century | Hammerwich Staffordshire |
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[170] | |
Trewhiddle Hoard | late 9th century | Trewhiddle Cornwall |
1774 | British Museum, London | 114 Anglo-Saxon coins, and various items of silverware, including a scourge, a chalice and a Celtic penannular brooch[171] | |
West Yorkshire Hoard | 11th century | Leeds West Yorkshire |
2008–2009 | 5 items of 7th to 11th century gold jewellery (a cabachon 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.[172] |
The table below lists hoards that are associated with Pictish culture in eastern and northern Scotland, from the end of Roman occupation in the 5th century until about the 10th century.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Broch of Burgar Hoard | late 8th century | Broch of Burgar, near Evie Orkney |
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[173] |
|
Gaulcross Hoard | 6th or early 7th century | Gaulcross, near Fordyce Aberdeenshire |
late 1830s | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | several silver hand pins (only one extant) 1 silver bracelet 1 silver chain several silver brooches (all lost)[174] |
|
Norrie's Law Hoard | late 7th century | Norrie's Law, Largo Fife |
1819 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | nearly 12.5 kg of silver objects, of which all but 750 g were melted down. The 153 surviving objects 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[175] |
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St Ninian's Isle Treasure | late 8th or early 9th century | St Ninian's Isle Shetland |
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[176] |
The table below lists hoards that are associated with the Viking culture in Britain.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Ainsbrook Hoard[note 10] | late 10th century | Thirsk North Yorkshire |
2003 | British Museum | ~130 objects of gold, silver (including 10 Anglo-Saxon coins), copper alloy, lead, iron, and stone[177][178] | |
Ballaquayle Hoard | late 10th century | Ballaquayle, Douglas Isle of Man |
1894 | Manx Museum, Douglas British Museum, London |
1 silver neck ring 1 gold arm ring 13 silver armlets 1 silver finger ring 2 silver thistle-headed brooch pins 78 Anglo-Saxon silver coins[179] |
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Bossall-Flaxton Hoard | early 10th century | between Bossall and Flaxton North Yorkshire |
1807 | coins, bullion, arm-ring in a leaden box[180] | ||
Bryn Maelgwyn Hoard | early 11th century | near Deganwy Castle, Llandudno Conwy |
1979 | National Museum Cardiff | 204 silver pennies of Cnut the Great[181] | |
Cuerdale Hoard | early 10th century | Cuerdale, near Preston Lancashire |
1840 | British Museum, London | 8,600 items including silver coins and bullion[182] | |
Furness Hoard | 10th century | Furness Cumbria |
2011 | Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness | 92 silver coins, including two Arabic dirhams, several silver ingots, and one silver bracelet.[183] | |
Glenfaba Hoard | early 11th century | Glenfaba Isle of Man |
2003 | Manx Museum, Douglas | 464 coins, 25 ingots and a broken armlet[184] | |
Goldsborough Hoard | early 10th century | Goldsborough North Yorkshire |
1859 | British Museum, London | Fragments of Viking brooches and arm-rings, together with thirty-nine coins[185] | |
Huxley Hoard | late 9th to 10th century | Huxley, Cheshire Cheshire |
2004 | National Museums Liverpool | 22 silver pieces (including 20 flattened bracelets)[186] | |
Penrith Hoard | early 10th century | Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith Cumbria |
1785–1989 | British Museum, London | a number of silver penannular brooches[187] | |
Silverdale Hoard | early 10th century | Silverdale Lancashire |
2011 | 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.[188] | ||
Skaill Hoard | mid 10th century | Bay of Skaill Orkney |
1858 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | over 100 items, including bracelets, brooches, hacksilver, and ingots[189] | |
Vale of York Hoard (Harrogate Hoard) |
early 10th century | near Harrogate North Yorkshire |
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[190] | |
Warton Hoard | early 10th century | Warton, near Carnforth Lancashire |
1997 | Lancaster City Museum | 3 silver dirhems of the Samanid dynasty 6 pieces of cut silver weighing 116.49 g (4.109 oz)[191] |
The table below lists hoards that date to the later medieval period, from 1066 to about 1500.
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Abergavenny Hoard | late 11th century | Abergavenny Monmouthshire |
2002 | National Museum Cardiff | 199 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror[192] | |
Ballaslig Coin Hoard | early 14th century | Ballaslig Isle of Man |
1978 | Manx Museum, Douglas | over 200 coins (mostly English sterling silver pennies)[193] | |
Baschurch Hoard | mid 13th century | Baschurch Shropshire |
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[194] | |
Beverley Hoard (2000) | mid 13th century | Beverley East Yorkshire |
2000 | British Museum (130) | 448 short cross pennies 27 cut half pennies[195] |
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Chesterton Lane Hoard | mid 14th century | Chesterton Lane, Cambridge Cambridgeshire |
2000 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 9 gold coins 1806 silver coins[196][197] |
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Colchester Hoard (1902) | mid 13th century | High Street, Colchester Essex |
1902 | British Museum, London | 11,000 – 12,0000 silver pennies in a lead canister[198] | |
Colchester Hoard (1969) | late 13th century | High Street, Colchester Essex |
1969 | British Museum, London | over 14,000 silver pennies of Henry III in a lead canister[198] | |
Cwm Nant Col Hoard | early 16th century | near Llanbedr Gwynedd |
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[199] | |
Fauld Hoard | early 15th century | Fauld Staffordshire |
2000 | Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | 114 silver groats[200] | |
Fishpool Hoard | mid 15th century | Ravenshead Nottinghamshire |
1966 | British Museum, London | 1,237 gold coins 8 pieces of jewellery 2 lengths of gold chain[201] |
|
Fillongley Hoard | early 13th century | Fillongley Warwickshire |
1997 | Warwickshire Museum | 2 silver brooches silver finger ring 127 short-cross pennies[202] |
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Gayton Hoard | late 12th century | Gayton Northamptonshire |
1998–1999 | Ashmolean Museum | 308 silver pennies 7 fragments[203] |
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Glenluce Hoard | late 15th century | Glenluce sand-dunes Wigtownshire |
1956 | 2 English silver coins 10 Scottish silver coins 99 Scottish billon coins 1 Scottish copper farthing[204] |
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Gorefield Hoard | early 14th century | Gorefield Cambridgeshire |
1998 | British Museum, Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum |
1,084 silver pennies, halfpennies and farthings[205] | |
Llanddona Hoard | early 14th century | Llanddona Anglesey |
1999, 2005–2006 | returned to finder | 970 silver pennies[206][207] | |
Reigate Hoard | mid 15th century | Reigate Surrey |
1990 | dispersed | 135 gold nobles, half nobles and quarters 6,566 silver groats[208] |
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Rhoneston Hoard | late 15th century | Rhoneston, near Dumfries Dumfriesshire |
1961 | 7 English silver coins 6 Scottish silver coins 70 Scottish billon coins[209] |
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Tutbury Hoard | early 14th century | Tutbury Staffordshire |
1831 | dispersed | 360,000 silver coins (the largest hoard of coins ever discovered in Britain)[210][211] | |
Wainfleet Hoard | late 12th century | Wainfleet Lincolnshire |
1990 | British Museum, London | 380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies in a green-glazed ceramic bottle[212] |
The table below lists hoards that date to later than 1500. Most of these hoards date to the period of the English Civil War (1642–1651) — over 200 hoards dating to the Civil War are known.[213]
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Abbotsham Hoard | mid 17th century | Abbotsham Devon |
2001 | Bideford Museum | 9 gold coins 425 silver coins[214] |
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Asthall Hoard | early 16th century | Asthall Oxfordshire |
2007 | Ashmolean Museum | 210 English gold angels and half-angel coins dating to the period 1470–1526[215] | |
Deal Hoard | mid 16th century | Deal Kent |
2000 | British Museum | 191 base silver coins within a linen bag inside a pot[216] | |
Hackney Hoard | mid 20th century (1940) | Hackney London |
2007 | British Museum | 80 American Double eagle gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913[217][218] | |
Haddiscoe Hoard | mid 17th century | Haddiscoe Norfolk |
2003 | Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth | 316 silver coins[219][220] | |
Hartford Hoard | early 16th century | Hartford Cambridgeshire |
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[221] | |
Lincoln Spanish-American gold hoards | early 19th century | Lincoln Lincolnshire |
1928 2010 |
24 Spanish-American gold 8-escudo coins minted between 1790 and 1801 (18 discovered in 1928, and 6 discovered in 2010)[222] | ||
Nether Stowey Hoard | mid 17th century | Nether Stowey Somerset |
2008 | Somerset County Museum | Silverware, including four spoons, a goblet and a bell salt, in an incomplete earthenware vessel[223] | |
Tidenham Hoard | mid 17th century | Tidenham Gloucestershire |
1999 | Chepstow Museum | 1 gold coin 117 silver coins[224] |
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Totnes Hoard | mid 17th century | Totnes Devon |
1930s | Totnes Museum | 176 silver coins of England, Scotland, Ireland and Spanish Netherlands[225] | |
Tregwynt Hoard | mid 17th century | Tregwynt Pembrokeshire |
1996 | British Museum, London | 33 gold coins 467 silver coins a gold ring[213] |
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Warmsworth Hoard | early 17th century | Warmsworth South Yorkshire |
1999 | Doncaster Museum | 122 silver coins pottery fragments bronze alloy spoon[226] |