On the 20th July, we’ll be running a free drop-in interactive workshop at the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester! Join us to learn more about … Read more
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Join us in July at the Great North Museum: Hancock!
Join us on the 22nd July for a free drop-in workshop at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Learn more about fifth century treasure hoards, the … Read more
Roman Archaeology Conference in Aarhus
The project team was lucky enough to visit Aarhus, Denmark to host a session at the Roman Archaeology Conference 2026. Our session Finding the Fifth … Read more
Clipped coins, unclipped clues
Silver coins with displaying various degrees of clipping (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum). When a coin is clipped, some of the key … Read more
New Treasure exhibition in the North-East
Treasure: Hidden, Lost, Found is a new (and free!) interactive exhibition which has recently opened at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle Upon Tyne. … Read more
Visit a Museum!
Many of the late Roman hoards that we are studying are on currently display at museums across Britain This post provides a list of some … Read more
Guess the objects
Can you guess what these unusual objects are? They are part of the Hoxne treasure, an important British Museum hoard that is part of our … Read more
Religion in the fifth century
Silver spoon from Hoxne hoard with chi-rho © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) … Read more
‘Britain’s Last Roman Hoards’ display at the British Museum
For the last couple of months, we have been very busy designing a display case about the project. We are very excited to announce that … Read more
Documenting the Collection
Here at the British Museum, a five-year project aiming to make the entire museum’s collection of roughly eight million objects(!) fully accessible online is now … Read more