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05.02.2021
Fillongley Hoard It all began when Roy English and Robert Foster received permission to search a farm previously never discovered. Several months passed, and the two detection specialists searched the farmer's fields one by one as they became available, and found many coins and artifacts dating...
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04.02.2021
Fishpool Hoard In 1966, workers at a construction site near today's Cambourne Gardens in Ravenshead discovered Fishpool's hoard of 1,237 15th-century gold coins, four rings and four other pieces of jewelry, and two lengths of gold chain. Nottinghamshire, England, an area then known as...
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03.02.2021
Fauld Hoard In 1831, workers were improving the runoff of a nearby cotton factory. This involved building an embankment to separate the runoff from the main river, using gravel from the riverbed. Workers found several silver coins in the gravel about 60 yards below the bridge that were quietly...
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02.02.2021
Cwm Nant Col Hoard In 1918, a manganese miner worker discovered a remarkable treasure hoard near Llanbedr in Gwynedd. The treasure was hidden in a depression under a large rock on the uneven ground on the south side of Cwm Nant Col. What makes the treasure so interesting is not only the wide range of...
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01.02.2021
Colchester Hoards Two thirteenth-century hoards from Colchester High Street and an empty container of a third. Two coin hoards and another possibly empty container for a third hoard were found in a 20-meter square along High Street in Colchester, Essex County, between 1902 and 2000. The first...
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30.01.2021
Chew Valley Hoard Chew Valley The treasure is a hoard of 2,528 coins from the mid-11th century, shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 The treasure was found in Chew Valley, Somerset, England, in 2019 It is one of the largest finds of Norman coins in Britain. The treasure was discovered...
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29.01.2021
Chesterton Lane Hoard Dr. Martin Allen, senior assistant curator of the Coin and Medal Division at the Fitzwilliam Museum, said more about his favorite item at the museum: "Discovering this hoard was one of my most exciting moments during my time at the museum. As an expert on medieval coins, I...
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28.01.2021
Abergavenny Hoard In April 2002, three metal detecters (John L. Jones, Richard Jones and Fred Edwards) found their lives in a field near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire: a scattered hoard of 199 silver pennies The hoard contained coins of Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) and Norman King...
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27.01.2021
Watlington Hoard The Watlington Treasure is a collection of Viking silver, drowned in 870S and rediscovered in Watlington , Oxfordshire , England in 2015. The treasure consists of silver - 186 coins (some fragmentary), 15 ingots and 7 pieces of jewelry, including hands of rings - and scrap gold. It...
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26.01.2021
Vale of York Hoard The Vale of York Hoard, also known as the Harrogate Hoard and the Vale of York Viking Hoard, is a 10th century Viking hoard of 617 silver coins and 65 other items. It was found intact in 2007 near the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The hoard was the largest Viking hoard...
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