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) 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.

Neolithic hoards

Hoards dating to 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	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
York Hoard		30th century BC	York North Yorkshire	1868	Yorkshire Museum	~70 flint tools and weapons

Bronze Age hoards

Main article: List of Bronze Age hoards in Great Britain

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

Main article: List of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain

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 and the Stirling Hoard.

Romano-British hoards

Main article: List of Roman hoards in Great Britain

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

Appledore Hoard

Bamburgh Hoard

Brantham

Canterbury

Crondall Hoard

Harkirke Hoard

Ipswich

Lenborough Hoard

Pentney Treasure

Staffordshire Hoard

Trewhiddle Hoard

West Yorkshire Hoard

Anglo-Saxon hoards

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	1997	British Museum, London	490 pennies (1997) 12 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor (1998)
Bamburgh Hoard		mid 9th century	Bamburgh Northumberland	1999 and 2004	Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle	384 base metal stycas copper alloy fragments bronze folding balance
Brantham Hoard		10th century	Brantham Suffolk	2003	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	90 silver pennies
Canterbury-St Martin's hoard		late 6th or early 7th century	Canterbury Kent	1840s	World Museum, Liverpool	8 items, including 3 gold coins, and two pieces of jewellery
Crondall Hoard		mid 7th century	Crondall Hampshire	1828	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	100 small gold coins and 2 cloisonné pins
Harkirke (or Harkirk) Hoard		early 10th century	Crosby Merseyside	1611	unknown	~300 Viking and Kufic coins
Ipswich Hoard (1863)		10th century	Ipswich Suffolk	1863		150 coins (75 now known)
Lenborough Hoard		mid 11th century	Lenborough, near Padbury Buckinghamshire	2014		5,251½ coins in a lead bucket, including coins of Ethelred the Unready and Canute
Pentney Treasure		early 9th century	Pentney Norfolk	1978	British Museum, London	6 silver disc brooches
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
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
West Yorkshire Hoard		11th century	Leeds West Yorkshire	2008–2009		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.

Pictish hoards

Broch of Burgar Hoard

Gaulcross Hoard

Norrie's Law Hoard

St Ninian's Isle Treasure

Pictish hoards

Hoards 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.
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
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)
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
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

Viking hoards

Hoards associated with the Viking culture in Great Britain, dating from the 9th to 11th centuries, are mostly found in northern England, Orkney and the Isle of Man, 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		late 10th century	Thirsk North Yorkshire	2003	British Museum, London	~130 objects of gold, silver (including 10 Anglo-Saxon coins), copper alloy, lead, iron, and stone
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
Bedale Hoard		early 10th century	Bedale North Yorkshire	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.
Bossall-Flaxton Hoard		early 10th century	between Bossall and Flaxton North Yorkshire	1807		coins, bullion, arm-ring in a leaden box
Bryn Maelgwyn Hoard		early 11th century	near Deganwy Castle, Llandudno Conwy	1979	National Museum Cardiff	204 silver pennies of Cnut the Great
Cuerdale Hoard		early 10th century	Cuerdale, near Preston Lancashire	1840	British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	8,600 items including silver coins and bullion
Dumfriesshire Hoard		mid-9th to 10th century	Dumfriesshire	2014	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	over 100 gold and silver items including armbands, a Christian cross, brooches, ingots and an exceptionally large Carolingian pot
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.
Glenfaba Hoard		early 11th century	Glenfaba Isle of Man	2003	Manx Museum, Douglas	464 coins, 25 ingots and a broken armlet
Goldsborough Hoard		early 10th century	Goldsborough North Yorkshire	1859	British Museum, London	fragments of Viking brooches and arm-rings, together with thirty-nine coins
Huxley Hoard		late 9th to 10th century	Huxley, Cheshire Cheshire	2004	World Museum, Liverpool	22 silver pieces (including 20 flattened bracelets)
Penrith Hoard		early 10th century	Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith Cumbria	1785–1989	British Museum, London	a number of silver penannular brooches
Silverdale Hoard		early 10th century	Silverdale Lancashire	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.
Skaill Hoard		mid 10th century	Bay of Skaill Orkney	1858	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	over 100 items, including bracelets, brooches, hacksilver, and ingots
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
Warton Hoard		early 10th century	Warton, near Carnforth Lancashire	1997	Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster	3 silver dirhems of the Samanid dynasty 6 pieces of cut silver weighing 116.49 g (4.109 oz)

Later Medieval hoards

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	2002	National Museum Cardiff	199 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror
Ballaslig Coin Hoard		early 14th century	Ballaslig Isle of Man	1978	Manx Museum, Douglas	over 200 coins (mostly English sterling silver pennies)
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
Beverley Hoard		mid 13th century	Beverley East Yorkshire	2000	British Museum, London	448 short cross pennies 27 cut half pennies
Chesterton Lane Hoard		mid 14th century	Chesterton Lane, Cambridge Cambridgeshire	2000	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	9 gold coins 1806 silver coins
Colchester Hoard (1902)		mid 13th century	High Street, Colchester Essex	1902	British Museum, London	11,000 – 12,000 silver pennies in a lead canister
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
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
Fauld Hoard		early 15th century	Fauld, Tutbury Staffordshire	2000	Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent	114 silver groats
Fishpool Hoard		mid 15th century	Ravenshead Nottinghamshire	1966	British Museum, London	1,237 gold coins 8 pieces of jewellery 2 lengths of gold chain
Fillongley Hoard		early 13th century	Fillongley Warwickshire	1997	Warwickshire Museum, Warwick	2 silver brooches silver finger ring 127 short-cross pennies
Gayton Hoard		late 12th century	Gayton Northamptonshire	1998–1999	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	308 silver pennies 7 fragments
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
Gorefield Hoard		early 14th century	Gorefield Cambridgeshire	1998	British Museum, London Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	1,084 silver pennies, halfpennies and farthings
Llanddona Hoard		early 14th century	Llanddona Anglesey	1999, 2005–2006	returned to finder	970 silver pennies
Reigate Hoard		mid 15th century	Reigate Surrey	1990	dispersed	135 gold nobles, half nobles and quarters 6,566 silver groats
Rhoneston Hoard		late 15th century	Rhoneston, near Dumfries Dumfriesshire	1961		7 English silver coins 6 Scottish silver coins 70 Scottish billon coins
Rumney Castle Hoard		late 13th century	Rumney Castle Cardiff	1981		63 silver pennies from the reign of Edward I
Ryther Hoard		late 15th century	Ryther North Yorkshire	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.
Tutbury Hoard		early 14th century	Tutbury Staffordshire	1831	dispersed	360,000 silver coins (the largest hoard of coins ever discovered in Britain)
Twynholm Hoard		early 14th century	Twynholm Dumfries and Galloway	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
Wainfleet Hoard		late 12th century	Wainfleet Lincolnshire	1990	British Museum, London	380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies in a green-glazed ceramic bottle

Post-Medieval hoards

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.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Abbotsham Hoard		mid 17th century	Abbotsham Devon	2001	Bideford Museum	9 gold coins 425 silver coins
Ackworth Hoard		mid 17th century	High Ackworth West Yorkshire	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.
Asthall Hoard		early 16th century	Asthall Oxfordshire	2007	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	210 English gold angels and half-angel coins dating to the period 1470–1526
Bishops Waltham Hoard		early 18th century	Bishops Waltham Hampshire	?		7,083 forged French 30-denier coins dated 1711
Bitterley Hoard		mid 17th century	Bitterley Shropshire	2011		1 gold coin and 137 silver coins (half crowns and shillings) with a leather purse in a tyg
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
Deal Hoard		mid 16th century	Deal Kent	2000	British Museum, London	191 base silver coins within a linen bag inside a pot
Hackney Hoard		mid 20th century (1940)	Hackney London	2007	British Museum, London	80 American Double eagle gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913
Haddiscoe Hoard		mid 17th century	Haddiscoe Norfolk	2003	Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth	316 silver coins
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
Lincoln Spanish-American gold hoards		early 19th century	North Kesteven Lincolnshire	1928 2010		24 Spanish-American gold 8-escudo coins minted between 1790 and 1801 (18 discovered in 1928, and 6 discovered in 2010)
Mason Hoard		mid 16th century	Lindisfarne Northumberland	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.
Middleham Hoard		mid 17th century	Middleham North Yorkshire	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.
Mitton Hoard		15th century	Great Mitton Lancashire	2009	Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire	11 silver coins or fragments, including one or two from France.
Nether Stowey Hoard		mid 17th century	Nether Stowey Somerset	2008	Somerset County Museum,Taunton	Silverware, including four spoons, a goblet and a bell salt, in an incomplete earthenware vessel
Short Hoard		mid 16th century	Lindisfarne Northumberland	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.
Tidenham Hoard		mid 17th century	Tidenham Gloucestershire	1999	Chepstow Museum	1 gold coin 117 silver coins
Totnes Hoard		mid 17th century	Totnes Devon	1930s	Totnes Museum	176 silver coins of England, Scotland, Ireland and Spanish Netherlands
Tregwynt Hoard		mid 17th century	Tregwynt Pembrokeshire	1996	National Museum Wales, Cardiff	33 gold coins 467 silver coins a gold ring
Warmsworth Hoard		early 17th century	Warmsworth South Yorkshire	1999	Doncaster Museum	122 silver coins pottery fragments bronze alloy spoon

See also

• List of hoards in Ireland
• List of hoards in the Channel Islands

External links

• Checklist of Coin Hoards from the British Isles, c.450-1180