Category: coins

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

Hoard of 2077 late Roman bronze coins from Winterslow, Wiltshire (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum) Not all of the hoards that we … 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

In 1938, a small late Roman hoard was discovered in a sandpit at Tuddenham St Martin in Suffolk. 114 silver coins and a gold ring … 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

We are now well over halfway through our planned museum visits and have been very busy the last couple of months. Our most recent visit … Read more

Last week, we travelled to the Corinium Museum to study a late Roman hoard found at Cirencester in the late nineteenth century. The hoard consists … Read more

In 1980, a group of children in North Yorkshire were throwing stones in a burn and discovered the Hovingham Park hoard. The children recovered 18 … Read more

Kelly recently visited Mildenhall Museum in Suffolk to examine the contents of the Worlington hoard. The hoard is an example of a scattered hoard – … Read more