Category: artefacts

In the late nineteenth century, a small hoard of late Roman silver was discovered near Great Horwood in Buckinghamshire. Five silver spoons, a finger-ring, pin … Read more

In one of our earliest blog posts, we discussed the Canterbury Treasure which is currently on display at Canterbury Roman Museum. The hoard consists of … Read more

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

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

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

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