The hoards we’re studying were valuable to their owners – the coins, jewellery and other objects they contained were made from precious materials. But how … Read more
Tag: The British Museum
Visit a Museum!
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
Guess the objects
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
Religion in the fifth century
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
‘Britain’s Last Roman Hoards’ display at the British Museum
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
Documenting the Collection
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
pXRF preliminary results
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