Category: overviews

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

We are now halfway through our project and have travelled to lots of different museums to examine surviving late Roman hoards and collected a vast … Read more

Careful removal of coins from the neck of a vessel by a British Museum conservator. (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum) Most of … Read more

Collectively, the 50+ hoards that we have chosen to study contain thousands of coins and hundreds of other artefacts. For a number of these hoards, … Read more

We’re studying around fifty hoards in our project, but how did we choose which ones to focus on? Fortunately, researchers have compiled lists of the … Read more