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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

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

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