Category: overviews

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

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

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