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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

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

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

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

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

Our archaeology technician Lloyd Bosworth has been very busy creating the 3D models of the hoard containers. The creation of these models is a very … 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