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05.01.2021
Ipswich Hoard There are two known hoards of Ipswich . The first was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins discovered in 1863. The second is a hoard of six Iron Age gold ends, discovered in 1968 and 1969. The latter hoard has been described as the second most important hoard from the Iron Age after the...
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04.01.2021
Hexham Hoard Hexham Hoard is a ninth-century treasure of eight thousand copper alloy coins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria , which were discovered while a grave was dug to be near Hexhaugh Abbey in 1832. The treasure was discovered on October 15, 1832, while the grave of a man named...
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03.01.2021
Canterbury-St Martin's hoard The Canterbury Martin Hoard is a hoard of coins found in 19th century Canterbury, Kent, beginning in the 6th century. The group, housed at the World Museum in Liverpool, consists of eight items, including three gold coins mounted on pendant hinges for use as pendants. One is a Ludhardt...
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03.01.2021
Beeston Tor Hoard The Beeston Tor Treasure is an Anglo-Saxon jewelry and coin hoard discovered in 1924 at Beeston Tor in Staffordshire. The treasure consists of forty-nine coins, two silver brooches with Truchyddle decoration, three rings and various fragments. The coins date the buried treasure to...
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30.12.2020
Penrith Hoard The Penrith Treasure is a dispersed hoard of 10 silver age penannular brooches , found at Flusco Pike, Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith in Cumbria , and now in the British Museum in London. The largest "thistle brooch" was found in 1785, and another in 1830, with the bulk of the...
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30.12.2020
Curmsun Disc The Curmsun disc is a concave gold disc weighing 25.23 g (0.890 oz) and 4.5 cm (1.8 in) in diameter. The inscription on the disc refers to the Danish Viking King Harald Bluetooth . The characteristics of the disc are typical of Ottonian art . Kurmsun represents the patronymic of the...
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30.12.2020
Hiddensee treasure The Hiddensee treasure was found in 1873 on the German island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea by accident, during the recovery from the great floods of 1872 and 1873. The treasure consists of 16 pendants, a brooch and a neck ring. They are all made of gold, weighing a total of 600...
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30.12.2020
The Sky-Disc, Nebra The Nebra sky disk is a bronze disk about 30 centimeters in diameter and weighing 2.2 kg, having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. These symbols are usually interpreted as the sun or full moon , lunar sickle and stars (including a cluster of seven interpreted as...
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28.12.2020
Torslunda plates These plates Torslund four cast bronze plates found in the parish of Torslund on the Swedish island of Öland . They show figures in relief representing what are believed to be traditional scenes from Germanic mythology . The plates were intended for production, not display;...
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27.12.2020
Vekso Helmets The Veksø helmets (or Viksø helmets) represent a pair of Bronze Age ceremonial horned helmets found near Veksø in Zealand , Denmark. In 1942, a worker was digging (about 0.7 m below the surface of the moss) a peat bog site in Brøns Møse,...
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