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Last month, James visited Wiltshire Museum Devizes to examine and photograph the Stanchester hoard container. A bronze ring fragment, three gold coins (solidi), thirty-three miliarenses and … Read more

Following the end of Roman rule in Britain, imports of coinage and other precious metals ended abruptly and the existing supply of precious metals such … Read more

Dorchester III (Somerleigh Court Estate) hoard (photo taken by K. Clarke-Neish and reproduced with permission from Dorset Museum and Art Gallery Ellen and Kelly recently … 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

Here’s a picture of some objects from the Icklingham hoard, on display in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. You might be surprised to … Read more

One of the fascinating aspects of researching hoards is that the material also illustrates the history of artefact studies through the centuries. Some of our … Read more

One of the hoards in our project is very easy for Ellen to study – it’s only a stone’s throw from the University of Kent, … 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