List of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain
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The list of Iron Age 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) that are associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD. 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. Hoards of Celtic coins dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Britain are also included here.
List of hoards
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Alton Hoard | mid 1st century AD | Alton, Hampshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1996 | British Museum, London | 50 gold staters of Commios, Tincomarus and Epillus (Hoard A) 206 gold staters of Tincomarus and Verica (Hoard B) 1 Roman gold ring 1 Roman gold bracelet[1][2] |
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Beaminster Hoard | early 1st century | Beaminster, Dorset Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2003 | Dorset County Museum, Dorchester | 160 silver staters[3] | |
Beverley Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Beverley, East Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1999–2007 | Hull Museums Collections British Museum, London |
110 gold staters[4][5] | |
Cheriton Hoard | 80 to 60 BC | Cheriton, Hampshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1984 | British Museum, London | 50 gold staters[6] | |
Chute Forest Hoard | 80 to 60 BC | Chute Forest, Wiltshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1927 | British Museum, London | 36 gold staters[7] | |
Clacton Hoard | 80 to 60 BC | Clacton-on-Sea, Essex Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1898 | British Museum, London | 76 gold staters[8] | |
Climping Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Climping, West Sussex Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | British Museum, London | 18 gold staters[note 1][10] | |
Dovedale Hoard | 1st century BC | Reynard's Cave and Kitchen, Dovedale, Derbyshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2014 | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery | 26 gold and silver coins, including three pre-conquest Roman coins, and 20 Late Iron Age gold and silver coins belonging to the Corieltauvi tribe[11] | |
Essendon Hoard | 60 BC to 20 BC | Essendon, Hertfordshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1992 | British Museum, London | 257 gold coins, 7 swords, 4 spearheads, a dagger and a decorated sheet of bronze that may have faced a wooden shield, various ingots and segments of a gold torc[12] | |
Farmborough Hoard | Coins from the Farmborough Hoard | early 1st century | Farmborough, Somerset Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1984 | British Museum, London | 61 gold staters[13] |
Field Baulk Hoard | mid 1st century | Field Baulk, March, Cambridgeshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1982 | British Museum, London | 872 silver coins minted by the Iceni tribe, in a round pot[14] | |
Great Leighs Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Great Leighs, Essex Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1998–1999 | Chelmsford Museums | 40 gold staters[15] | |
Hallaton Treasure | Iron Age coins from the Hallaton Treasure | 1st century AD | Hallaton, Leicestershire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Harborough Museum | 5,000 silver and gold coins a silver gilt Roman parade helmet jewellery[16] |
Honingham Hoard | 100px | mid 1st century AD | Honingham, Norfolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1954 | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 341 Iceni silver coins[17] |
Ipswich Hoard | 1st century BC | Ipswich, Suffolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1968–1969 | British Museum, London | 6 gold twisted torcs[18] | |
Kimbolton Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2010 | 67 gold staters and one gold quarter-stater[19] | ||
Langstone Hoard | Two bronze bowls and wine strainer from the Langstone Hoard | mid 1st century AD | Ringland, Newport Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2007 | 2 bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer[20] | |
Little Horwood Hoard | 1st century BC | Little Horwood, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2006–2007 | Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury | 75 staters found over an 11-month period which are said to be part of the Whaddon Chase Hoard[21][22][23] | |
Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard | "Crescentic bronze plaque" in the shape of a gold lunula, with triskele-like decoration | 4th century BC to 1st century AD | Llyn Cerrig Bach, near Valley, Anglesey Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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[24] |
Llyn Fawr Hoard | 8th to 7th century BC | Llyn Fawr Lake, Rhigos, Glamorgan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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[25] | |
Lochar Moss Hoard | 50 to 200 AD | Lochar Moss, near Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1840s | British Museum, London | brass torc and bronze bowl[26] | |
North Foreland Hoard | early 1st century BC | North Foreland, Kent Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1999 | Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington-on-Sea | 63 potin (a bronze alloy with high tin content) coins[27] | |
Peatling Magna Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Peatling Magna, near Market Harborough Leicestershire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2012 | Harborough Museum | 10 gold staters minted in northern France or the Low Countries[28] | |
Polden Hill Hoard | 50 AD to 100 AD | Polden Hill, Somerset Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1800 | British Museum, London | about 90 metal artefacts including horse gear and trappings, segments of 3 shields, 6 brooches, 3 bracelets, parts of 2 torcs[29] | |
Salisbury Hoard | 3rd century BC[note 2] | Netherhampton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1988 | British Museum, London | over 600 objects, mostly miniature bronze versions of shields, tools, daggers and spearheads[30] | |
Scole Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Scole, Norfolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1982–1983 | 202 Iceni silver coins and 87 Roman coins[31] | ||
Sedgeford Hoard | Cowbone and gold coins of the Sedgeford Hoard | 1st century BC | Sedgeford, Norfolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2003 | King's Lynn Museum | 39 Gallo-Belgic gold staters, concealed inside a cowbone[32] |
Shalfleet Hoard | Ingot 2 (top) from Shalfleet Hoard (2009) | late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD | Shalfleet, Isle of Wight Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2009 | Sold at Bonhams, 2011.[33] | four large bowl-shaped silver ingots, six small silver fragments and one gold British B (or "Chute") stater of Late Iron Age date.[34] |
Silsden Hoard | mid 1st century AD | Silsden, West Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1998 | Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley | 27 gold coins and a finger ring[35] | |
Snettisham Hoard | mid 1st century BC | Ken Hill, near Snettisham, Norfolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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[36] | |
Southend Hoard | 60-50 BC | Southend-on-Sea, Essex Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1986 | British Museum, London | pottery sherds and 33 gold staters[37] | |
South Norfolk Hoard | 'Norfolk Wolf' debased gold stater from the South Norfolk Hoard | late 1st century BC | South Norfolk | 2012–2013 | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 44 'Norfolk Wolf' debased gold staters[38][39] |
South Wight Hoard | late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD | South Wight, Isle of Wight Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2004 | British Museum, London | 18 gold staters, 138 silver staters, 1 thin silver coin, 7 copper alloy coins of the Roman period, 2 bowl shaped silver ingots, 1 bowl shaped copper alloy ingot, 5 sherds of Iron Age pottery [40][41] | |
Stanwick Hoard | 50 BC to 100 AD | Stanwick, North Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1843 | British Museum, London | about 180 metal artefacts including four sets of horse harnesses for chariots and a bronze horse head [42] | |
Stirling Hoard | 3rd to 1st century BC | Near Blair Drummond, Stirlingshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2009 | National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 4 gold torcs[43] | |
Stonea Hoard | 20-50 AD | Stonea, Cambridgeshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1983 | British Museum, London | pottery beaker and over 850 silver coins[44] | |
Sunbury Hoard | 2nd century BC | Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1950 | Museum of London, London | 317 tin alloy coins and 56 fragments, together with fragments of a pottery vessel[45] | |
Syngenta Hoard[note 3] | mid 1st century BC | Jealott's Hill, near Bracknell, Berkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1998 | Reading Museum | 58 gold coins[46] | |
Tal-y-Llyn Hoard | 1st century AD | near Tal-y-llyn Lake, Cadair Idris, Merionethshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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[47] | |
Whaddon Chase Hoard | 1st century BC | near Whaddon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1849 & 2006 | British Museum, London[48] Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury | between 450[49] and 800[50] and 2,000 gold staters[21] — see also Little Horwood Hoard | |
Whitchurch Hoard | Obverse of Chute stater from Whitchurch Hoard (1987) | 1st century BC | Whitchurch, Hampshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1987 | Hampshire Museums Service (4 of each type). The remainder sold at Christies, October 1988, lots 236-246. | 34 Gallo-Belgic E gold staters, and 108 British B (or, Chute,) gold staters.[51] |
Wickham Market Hoard | Coins from the Wickham Market Hoard | late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD | Wickham Market, Suffolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2008 | Ipswich Museum | 840 gold staters[52][53] |
Winchester Hoard | The Winchester Hoard | 1st century BC | near Winchester, Hampshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | British Museum, London | 4 gold brooches 1 gold chain 1 gold bracelet (complete) 2 gold bracelet halves 2 gold torcs[54] |
Walkington Hoard | A selection from the Walkington Hoard | 1st century BC | Walkington, East Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2005 | Yorkshire Museum, York | a collection of gold staters of the Corieltauvi. Various types of coin. Discovered in batches but regarded as associated.[55][56] |
See also
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Notes
- ↑ A previously unknown type of stater was found which henceforth became known as the "Climping type". It is thought that there was more to the hoard, but it had become dispersed.[9]
- ↑ Although buried in the Iron Age, some of the objects in the Salisbury Hoard are dateable to the early Bronze Age (circa 2400 BC), and may have been recovered from a Bronze Age hoard.
- ↑ The Syngenta Hoard is named after the company on whose land the hoard was found.
Footnotes
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- ↑ Gannon, Voden-Decker & Bland 2004b, pp. 151, 183
- ↑ Bland 2000, p. 100
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- ↑ Bonhams, Antiquities, 13 April 2011, lot 248
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- ↑ Williams, Jonathan; Hill, J.D.[2], Portable Antiquities Scheme, Record ID: IOW-38B400. Retrieved 21 November 2013
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