Category: artefacts

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

In one of our earlier blog posts, we discussed a wooden tankard that was discovered at Shapwick Heath by peat workers in the 1930s. The … Read more

Haynes hoard, BEDFM:1999.235. Image courtesy of The Higgins Museum (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum) For our final museum visit, we travelled to the … Read more

We have an exciting update to share with you this week – we can confirm that we have found another late Roman hacksilver hoard!  The … Read more

As we discussed in one of our previous blog posts (see here), we are carrying out pXRF analysis on around 30 silver objects as part … Read more

The PI for our project, Ellen Swift, has recently published an article presenting the key findings of her study of the objects from the Thetford … Read more

As we have seen in previous posts, some hoards are found during archaeological excavations meaning we have a bit more background on the nature of … Read more

Here’s a picture of one of the more fascinating items James recently examined during our visit to the Museum of Somerset in Taunton. This tankard … Read more

Recently we’ve been at Salisbury Museum studying the Bowerchalke hoard which is currently on display. It was found by metal-detectorists about twenty-five years ago. The … Read more

Following the end of Roman rule in Britain, imports of coinage and other precious metals ended abruptly and the existing supply of precious metals such … Read more