List of hoards in Great Britain

The list of hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). It includes both hoards that were buried with the intention of retrieval at a later date (personal hoards, founder's hoards, merchant's hoards, and hoards of loot), and also hoards of votive offerings which were not intended to be recovered at a later date, but excludes grave goods and single items found in isolation. The list is subdivided into sections according to archaeological and historical periods.

Neolithic hoards[]

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Hoards dating to the Neolithic period, approximately 4000 to 2000 BC, comprise stone weapons and tools such as axeheads and arrowheads. Such hoards are very rare, and only a few are known from Britain.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Ayton East Field Hoard		30th to 25th century BC	East Ayton North Yorkshire 54°15′18″N 0°28′26″W / 54.255°N 0.474°W / 54.255; -0.474 (Ayton East Field Hoard)	1848	British Museum, London	3 flint axes 1 flint adze 5 arrowheads 1 polished flint knife 2 flint flakes 1 antler macehead 2 boar-tusk blades[1]
York Hoard		30th century BC	York North Yorkshire 53°57′29″N 1°04′48″W / 53.958°N 1.080°W / 53.958; -1.080 (York Hoard)	1868	Yorkshire Museum	~70 flint tools and weapons[2]

Bronze Age hoards[]

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A large number of hoards associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC, have been found in Great Britain. Most of these hoards comprise bronze tools and weapons such as axeheads, chisels, spearheads and knives, and in many cases may be founder's hoards buried with the intention of recovery at a later date for use in casting new bronze items. A smaller number of hoards include gold torcs and other items of jewellery. As coinage was not in use during the Bronze Age in Great Britain, there are no hoards of coins from this period.

Iron Age hoards[]

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A large number of hoards associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD, have been found in Britain. Most of the hoards comprise silver or gold Celtic coins known as staters, usually numbered in the tens or hundreds of coins, although the Hallaton Treasure contained over 5,000 silver and gold coins. In addition to hoards of coins, a number of hoards of gold torcs and other items of jewellery have been found, including the Snettisham Hoard, the Ipswich Hoard and the Stirling Hoard.

In September 2020, 1,300 Celtic gold coins were discovered at a location in eastern England, dated back between 40 and 50 A.D.^[3]

Romano-British hoards[]

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Hoards associated with the period of Romano-British culture when part of Great Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent Sub-Roman period up to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are the most numerous type of hoard found in Great Britain, and Roman coin hoards are particularly well represented, with over 1,200 known examples. In addition to hoards composed largely or entirely of coins, a smaller number of hoards, such as the Mildenhall Treasure and the Hoxne Hoard, include items of silver or gold tableware such as dishes, bowls, jugs and spoons, or items of silver or gold jewellery.

Anglo-Saxon hoards[]

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Hoards associated with the Anglo-Saxon culture, from the 6th century to 1066, are relatively uncommon. Those that have been found include both hoards of coins and hoards of jewellery and metalwork such as sword hilts and crosses. The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard to have been found, comprising over 1,500 items of gold and silver. More Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been found in the context of grave burials than hoards in England. These include major finds from Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, Taplow in Buckinghamshire, Prittlewell, Mucking and Broomfield in Essex, and Crundale and Sarre in Kent.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current location	Contents
		Mid 11th century	Appledore Kent 51°01′52″N 0°47′24″E / 51.031°N 0.790°E / 51.031; 0.790 (Appledore Hoard)	1997	British Museum, London	490 pennies (1997) 12 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor (1998)[4]
		Mid 9th century	Bamburgh Northumberland 55°36′14″N 1°43′19″W / 55.604°N 1.722°W / 55.604; -1.722 (Bamburgh Hoard)	1999 and 2004	Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle	384 base metal stycas Copper alloy fragments Bronze folding balance[5][6]
Beeston Tor Hoard		9th century	Beeston Tor Staffordshire 53°04′59″N 1°50′41″W / 53.08312°N 1.84470°W / 53.08312; -1.84470 (Beeston Tor Hoard)	1926	British Museum, London	49 pennies, two silver brooches, three finger rings and assorted fragments[7]
		10th century	Brantham Suffolk 51°58′08″N 1°03′47″E / 51.969°N 1.063°E / 51.969; 1.063 (Brantham Hoard)	2003	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	90 silver pennies[8]
		11th century	Bucklesham Suffolk	2017	The hoard fetched £90,000 at auction	A hoard of 99 silver pennies, dated back to the reign of Aethelred II (978–1016), was discovered under the remains of a Saxon church demolished shortly after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century.[9]
Canterbury-St Martin's hoard		Late 6th or early 7th century	Canterbury Kent 51°16′41″N 1°05′38″E / 51.278°N 1.094°E / 51.278; 1.094 (Canterbury-St Martin's hoard)	1840s	World Museum, Liverpool	8 items, including 3 gold coins, and two pieces of jewellery[10]
Crondall Hoard		Mid 7th century	Crondall Hampshire 51°13′48″N 0°51′43″W / 51.230°N 0.862°W / 51.230; -0.862 (Crondall Hoard)	1828	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	100 small gold coins and 2 cloisonné pins[11]
		Early 10th century	Crosby Merseyside 53°30′07″N 3°01′12″W / 53.502°N 3.020°W / 53.502; -3.020 (Harkirk(e) Hoard)	1611	unknown[note 1]	~300 Viking and Kufic coins[12]
Hexham Hoard		Ninth century		1832	The hoard was uncovered by the sexton and a grave-digger.	Approximately 8000 stycas in a bronze bucket.
Ipswich Hoard (1863)		10th century	Ipswich Suffolk 52°03′32″N 1°09′22″E / 52.059°N 1.156°E / 52.059; 1.156 (Ipswich Hoard (1863))	1863		150 coins (75 now known)[13]
King's Lynn Hoard		early 7th century	King's Lynn, Norfolk	2014		131 coins and four pieces of gold.[14] Ten coins were found by a serving police officer who tried to sell them and was jailed for 16 months.[15]
Kirkoswald Hoard		Mid 9th century	Kirkoswald, Cumbria	1808		542 Northumbrian stycas and one silver trefoil ornament
Lenborough Hoard		Mid 11th century	Lenborough, near Padbury Buckinghamshire 51°58′37″N 0°58′52″W / 51.977°N 0.981°W / 51.977; -0.981 (Lenborough Hoard)	2014		5,251½ coins in a lead bucket, including coins of Ethelred the Unready and Canute[16]
Pentney Hoard		Early 9th century	Pentney Norfolk 52°41′42″N 0°32′42″E / 52.695°N 0.545°E / 52.695; 0.545 (Pentney Treasure)	1978	British Museum, London	6 silver disc brooches[17]
St Leonard's Place Hoard		Mid 9th century	York York 53°57′43″N 1°05′10″W / 53.962°N 1.086°W / 53.962; -1.086 (St Leonard's Place Hoard)	1842	Yorkshire Museum	c.10,000 Northumbrian stycas
Staffordshire Hoard		7th or 8th century	Hammerwich Staffordshire 52°39′18″N 1°54′25″W / 52.655°N 1.907°W / 52.655; -1.907 (Staffordshire Hoard)	2009	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent	More than 1,500 items (about 5 kg (11 lb) of gold and 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) of silver), mostly sword fittings and decorative parts of weaponry, but also two gold crosses and an inscribed gold strip[18]
Trewhiddle Hoard		Late 9th century	Trewhiddle Cornwall 50°19′44″N 4°48′14″W / 50.329°N 4.804°W / 50.329; -4.804 (Trewhiddle Hoard)	1774	British Museum, London	114 Anglo-Saxon coins, and various items of silverware, including a scourge, a chalice and a Celtic penannular brooch[19]
West Yorkshire Hoard		11th century	Leeds West Yorkshire 53°48′N 1°33′W / 53.8°N 1.55°W / 53.8; -1.55 (West Yorkshire Hoard)	2008–2009	Leeds City Museum	5 items of 7th to 11th century gold jewellery (a cabochon ring, a filigree ring, a niello finger ring, a filigree and granular ring, and a piece of a cloisonné bracelet), an ingot of gold, and a lead spindle whorl.[20]

Pictish hoards[]

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Hoards associated with Pictish culture, dating from the end of Roman occupation in the 5th century until about the 10th century, have been found in eastern and northern Scotland. These hoards often contain silver brooches and other items of jewellery.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
		4th to 6th century	Undisclosed location Aberdeenshire	2014		100 pieces of hacksilver, comprising late Roman coins and pieces of Roman and Pictish silver vessels, bracelets and brooches.[21]
		late 8th century	Broch of Burgar, near Evie Orkney 59°07′52″N 3°08′02″W / 59.131°N 3.134°W / 59.131; -3.134 (Broch of Burgar Hoard)	1840	unknown	8 silver vessels several silver combs 5 or 6 silver hair pins 2 or 3 silver brooches several fragments of silver chains a large number of amber beads[22]
		6th or early 7th century	Gaulcross, near Fordyce Aberdeenshire 57°39′47″N 2°46′44″W / 57.663°N 2.779°W / 57.663; -2.779 (Gaulcross Hoard)	late 1830s	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Several silver hand pins (only one extant) 1 silver bracelet 1 silver chain several silver brooches (all lost)[23]
Norrie's Law hoard		late 7th century	Norrie's Law, Largo Fife 56°15′18″N 2°57′11″W / 56.255°N 2.953°W / 56.255; -2.953 (Norrie's Law Hoard)	1819	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Nearly 12.5 kg of silver objects, of which all but 750 g were melted down. The 170 surviving objects[24] include: 2 penannular brooches 2 oval plaques 3 or 4 hand-pins 2 spiral finger-rings 1 small vessel lid fragment of a 4th-century Roman spoon knife-handle mounts fragments of arm-bands various rod and chain fragments[25]
St Ninian's Isle Treasure		late 8th or early 9th century	St Ninian's Isle Shetland 59°58′16″N 1°20′31″W / 59.971°N 1.342°W / 59.971; -1.342 (St Ninian's Isle Treasure)	1958	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	8 silver bowls 12 silver penannular brooches 2 silver chapes (part of scabbard that protects the point) 1 silver communion spoon 1 silver knife 1 silver pommel 3 silver cones[26]

Viking hoards[]

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Hoards associated with the Viking culture in Great Britain, dating from the 9th to 11th centuries, are mostly found in northern England and Orkney, and frequently comprise a mixture of silver coins, silver jewellery and hacksilver that has been taken in loot, some coins originating from as far away as the Middle East.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
[note 2]		late 10th century	Thirsk North Yorkshire 54°13′59″N 1°20′35″W / 54.233°N 1.343°W / 54.233; -1.343 (Ainsbrook Hoard)	2003	British Museum, London	~130 objects of gold, silver (including 10 Anglo-Saxon coins), copper alloy, lead, iron, and stone[27][28]
Ashdon Hoard		Late 9th century	Ashdon	1984	Fitzwilliam Museum	71 silver pennies of Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and Carolingian origins[29]
Bedale Hoard		early 10th century	Bedale North Yorkshire 54°17′N 1°35′W / 54.29°N 1.59°W / 54.29; -1.59 (Bedale Hoard)	2012	Yorkshire Museum, York	1 iron sword pommel with gold foil plaques, 4 gold hoops a sword hilt, 6 small gold rivets, 4 silver collars and neck-rings, 1 silver arm-ring, 1 fragment of a silver Permian ring, 1 silver penannular brooch, and 29 silver ingots.[30]
		early 10th century	between Bossall and Flaxton North Yorkshire 54°03′00″N 0°56′42″W / 54.050°N 0.945°W / 54.050; -0.945 (Bossall-Flaxton Hoard)	1807		Coins, bullion, arm-ring in a leaden box[31]
		early 11th century	near Deganwy Castle, Llandudno Conwy 53°18′18″N 3°48′54″W / 53.305°N 3.815°W / 53.305; -3.815 (Bryn Maelgwyn Hoard)	1979	National Museum Cardiff	204 silver pennies of Cnut the Great[32]
Cuerdale Hoard		early 10th century	Cuerdale, near Preston Lancashire 53°45′18″N 2°38′24″W / 53.755°N 2.640°W / 53.755; -2.640 (Cuerdale Hoard)	1840	British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	8,600 items including silver coins and bullion[33]
		late 9th century	Eye Herefordshire 52°16′14″N 2°44′27″W / 52.2705°N 2.7408°W / 52.2705; -2.7408 (Eye Hoard)	2015	Dispersed[note 3]	About 300 Anglo-Saxon silver and gold coins, some issued by Ceolwulf II of Mercia and some issued by Alfred of Wessex, together with one or more silver ingots, and some items of jewellery, including a late 6th-century crystal pendant, a gold arm-band and a gold finger ring[34][35]
Furness Hoard		10th century	Furness Cumbria 54°12′N 3°09′W / 54.20°N 3.15°W / 54.20; -3.15 (Furness Hoard)	2011	Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness	92 silver coins, including two Arabic dirhams, several silver ingots, and one silver bracelet.[36]
Galloway Hoard		early 10th century	Kirkcudbrightshire	2014	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	over 100 gold and silver items, including armbands, a Christian cross, brooches, ingots and an exceptionally large Carolingian pot[37][38]
		early 10th century	Goldsborough North Yorkshire 54°00′00″N 1°24′54″W / 54.000°N 1.415°W / 54.000; -1.415 (Goldsborough Hoard)	1859	British Museum, London	Fragments of Viking brooches and arm-rings, together with thirty-nine coins[39]
Huxley Hoard		late 9th to 10th century	Huxley, Cheshire Cheshire 53°08′49″N 2°43′59″W / 53.147°N 2.733°W / 53.147; -2.733 (Huxley Hoard)	2004	World Museum, Liverpool	22 silver pieces (including 20 flattened bracelets)[40]
Leominster hoard		late 9th to 10th century	Eye, nearLeominster Herefordshire	2015		Over 300 coins, silver ingot, gold jewellery. The hoard was initially split and sold. Only 31 coins remain.[41]
Penrith Hoard		early 10th century	Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith Cumbria 54°39′00″N 2°34′41″W / 54.650°N 2.578°W / 54.650; -2.578 (Penrith Hoard)	1785–1989	British Museum, London	A number of silver penannular brooches[42]
Silverdale Hoard		early 10th century	Silverdale Lancashire 54°10′N 2°50′W / 54.17°N 2.83°W / 54.17; -2.83 (Silverdale Hoard)	2011	Museum of Lancashire, Preston, Lancaster City Museum	201 silver objects inside a box made from a sheet of lead; comprising 27 coins (Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Viking, Frankish and Islamic), 10 arm rings, 2 finger rings, 14 ingots, 6 brooch fragments, 1 wire braid, and 141 pieces of hacksilver.[43]
		mid 10th century	Bay of Skaill Orkney 59°03′00″N 3°20′13″W / 59.050°N 3.337°W / 59.050; -3.337 (Skaill Hoard)	1858	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Over 100 items, including bracelets, brooches, hacksilver, and ingots[44]
Storr Rock Hoard		10th century	Isle of Skye	1891	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	A collection of silver coins dating from the 10th century[45]
Talnotrie Hoard	Lead weight, Talnotrie hoard	late 9th century	near Talntrie	1912	National Museums Scotland	Jewellery, metal-working material and coins
Vale of York Hoard (Harrogate Hoard)		early 10th century	near Harrogate North Yorkshire 53°59′N 1°32′W / 53.99°N 1.54°W / 53.99; -1.54 (Vale of York Hoard)	2007	British Museum, London Yorkshire Museum, York	More than 617 silver coins, and 65 other items, including silver and gold armrings, neckrings and brooch fragments, as well as hacksilver, all placed inside a 9th-century gilt-silver vessel[46]
		early 10th century	Warton, near Carnforth Lancashire 54°08′49″N 2°45′58″W / 54.147°N 2.766°W / 54.147; -2.766 (Warton Hoard)	1997	Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster	3 silver dirhems of the Samanid dynasty 6 pieces of cut silver weighing 116.49 g (4.109 oz)[47]
Watlington Hoard		late 9th century	Watlington Oxfordshire 51°38′42″N 1°00′00″W / 51.645°N 1.000°W / 51.645; -1.000 (Watlington Hoard)	2015	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	About 210 silver coins from the reigns of Alfred the Great of Wessex and Ceolwulf II of Mercia, together with 15 silver ingots, 6 silver arm rings, 2 neck ring fragments, and one small piece of hack gold[48]

Later Medieval hoards[]

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Hoards dating to the later medieval period, from 1066 to about 1500, mostly comprise silver pennies, in some cases amounting to many thousands of coins, although the Fishpool Hoard contains over a thousand gold coins.

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
		late 11th century	Abergavenny Monmouthshire 51°49′26″N 3°01′01″W / 51.824°N 3.017°W / 51.824; -3.017 (Abergavenny Hoard)	2002	National Museum Cardiff	199 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror[49]
		mid 13th century	Baschurch Shropshire 52°47′31″N 2°51′14″W / 52.792°N 2.854°W / 52.792; -2.854 (Baschurch Hoard)	2007–2008	Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery	191 long cross pennies of Henry III of England, 1 penny of Alexander III of Scotland, and some coin fragments[50]
		mid 13th century	Beverley East Yorkshire 53°50′42″N 0°25′37″W / 53.845°N 0.427°W / 53.845; -0.427 (Beverley Hoard (Med))	2000	British Museum, London	448 short cross pennies 27 cut half pennies[51]
		15th century	York North Yorkshire 53°58′01″N 1°05′42″W / 53.967°N 1.095°W / 53.967; -1.095 (Beverley Hoard (Med))	1953	Yorkshire Museum, York	908 silver coins of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.[52]
		mid 14th century	Chesterton Lane, Cambridge Cambridgeshire 52°12′40″N 0°06′54″E / 52.211°N 0.115°E / 52.211; 0.115 (Chesterton Lane Hoard)	2000	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	9 gold coins 1806 silver coins[53][54]
		mid 14th century	Chesterton Lane, Cambridge Cambridgeshire 52°12′40″N 0°06′54″E / 52.211°N 0.115°E / 52.211; 0.115 (Chesterton Lane Hoard)	2000	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	9 gold coins 1806 silver coins[53][54]
Chew Valley Hoard		mid 11th century	Chew Valley Somerset 51°21′00″N 2°36′00″W / 51.350°N 2.600°W / 51.350; -2.600 (Chew Valley Hoard)	2019		2,528 silver coins, including 1,236 coins of Harold II and 1,310 coins of William I[55]
		mid 13th century	High Street, Colchester Essex 51°53′24″N 0°54′11″E / 51.890°N 0.903°E / 51.890; 0.903 (Colchester Hoard)	1902	British Museum, London	11,000 – 12,000 silver pennies in a lead canister[56]
		late 13th century	High Street, Colchester Essex 51°53′24″N 0°54′11″E / 51.890°N 0.903°E / 51.890; 0.903 (Colchester Hoard)	1969	British Museum, London	over 14,000 silver pennies of Henry III in a lead canister[56]
		early 16th century	near Llanbedr Gwynedd 52°49′12″N 4°06′04″W / 52.820°N 4.101°W / 52.820; -4.101 (Cwm Nant Col Hoard)	1918	National Museum Cardiff	1 late 13th or early 14th century copper alloy aquamanile in the shape of a stag, 1 5th century copper alloy ewer, 1 copper alloy tray, 1 bronze cauldron, 2 bronze skillets, 1 woodman's iron axe, and iron firedog fragments[57]
		early 15th century	Fauld, Tutbury Staffordshire 52°50′N 1°44′W / 52.84°N 1.73°W / 52.84; -1.73 (Fauld Hoard)	2000	Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent	114 silver groats[58]
Fishpool Hoard		mid 15th century	Ravenshead Nottinghamshire 53°05′N 1°10′W / 53.08°N 1.17°W / 53.08; -1.17 (Fishpool Hoard)	1966	British Museum, London	1,237 gold coins 8 pieces of jewellery 2 lengths of gold chain[59]
		early 13th century	Fillongley Warwickshire 52°28′55″N 1°35′17″W / 52.482°N 1.588°W / 52.482; -1.588 (Fillongley Hoard)	1997	Warwickshire Museum, Warwick	2 silver brooches silver finger ring 127 short-cross pennies[60]
		late 12th century	Gayton Northamptonshire 52°10′12″N 0°59′35″W / 52.170°N 0.993°W / 52.170; -0.993 (Gayton Hoard)	1998–1999	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	308 silver pennies 7 fragments[61]
		late 15th century	Glenluce sand-dunes Wigtownshire 54°51′00″N 4°52′59″W / 54.850°N 4.883°W / 54.850; -4.883 (Glenluce Hoard)	1956		2 English silver coins 10 Scottish silver coins 99 Scottish billon coins 1 Scottish copper farthing[62]
		early 14th century	Gorefield Cambridgeshire 52°40′59″N 0°05′31″E / 52.683°N 0.092°E / 52.683; 0.092 (Gorefield Hoard)	1998	British Museum, London Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge	1,084 silver pennies, halfpennies and farthings[63]
		early 14th century	Llanddona Anglesey 53°17′38″N 4°08′20″W / 53.294°N 4.139°W / 53.294; -4.139 (Llanddona Hoard)	1999, 2005–2006	returned to finder	970 silver pennies[64][65]
		1400–1412	Piddletrenthide, Dorset 50°48′00″N 2°25′30″W / 50.800°N 2.425°W / 50.800; -2.425 (Piddletrenthide Hoard (2008))	2008		293 Medieval silver coins, comprising 272 complete pennies, 2 broken pennies, 14 half groats, and 4 groats, found in a fragmentary pottery vessel.[66][67]
		mid 15th century	Reigate Surrey 51°13′48″N 0°11′17″W / 51.230°N 0.188°W / 51.230; -0.188 (Reigate Hoard)	1990	dispersed	135 gold nobles, half nobles and quarters 6,566 silver groats[68]
		late 15th century	Rhoneston, near Dumfries Dumfriesshire 55°09′14″N 3°42′29″W / 55.154°N 3.708°W / 55.154; -3.708 (Rhoneston Hoard)	1961		7 English silver coins 6 Scottish silver coins 70 Scottish billon coins[69]
		late 13th/early 14th century	Roslin Midlothian	Spring Equinox of 2019	National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh	Over 200 silver pennies mostly English of Edward I, some of Irish and Scottish from the reign of Alexander III with fragments of clay Jug in which they were deposited have been found on the day of Spring equinox in 2019 near the world famous Rosslyn Chapel by amateur historian Jaroslaw M.
		late 13th century	Rumney Castle Cardiff 51°30′12″N 3°08′23″W / 51.50342°N 3.13970°W / 51.50342; -3.13970 (Rumney Castle Hoard)	1981		63 silver pennies from the reign of Edward I[70]
Ryther Hoard		late 15th century	Ryther North Yorkshire 53°50′42″N 1°10′05″W / 53.845°N 1.168°W / 53.845; -1.168 (Ryther Hoard)	1992	Yorkshire Museum, York	812 silver coins, mostly English groats, half-groats and pennies dating from the reigns of Edward I/II through Henry VII, in an unglazed drinking jug.[71]
		late 12th century	Tealby Lincolnshire 53°24′00″N 0°15′54″W / 53.400°N 0.265°W / 53.400; -0.265 (Tealby Hoard)	1807	5,127 melted down at the Tower of London; rest dispersed.	5,731 silver pennies of the reign of Henry II (dated 1158–1180), in a glazed earthenware pot.[72]
		early 14th century	Tutbury Staffordshire 52°51′N 1°41′W / 52.85°N 1.69°W / 52.85; -1.69 (Tutbury Hoard)	1831	dispersed	360,000 silver coins (the largest hoard of coins ever discovered in Britain)[73][74]
		early 14th century	Twynholm Dumfries and Galloway 54°51′47″N 4°05′24″W / 54.863°N 4.090°W / 54.863; -4.090 (Twynholm Hoard)	2013		322 silver coins dating from 1249 to 1325, including Scottish coins from the reigns of Alexander III and John Balliol, and English coins from the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III[75]
		late 12th century	Wainfleet Lincolnshire 53°06′29″N 0°14′13″E / 53.108°N 0.237°E / 53.108; 0.237 (Wainfleet Hoard)	1990	British Museum, London	380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies in a green-glazed ceramic bottle[76]

Post-Medieval hoards[]

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Most hoards from the post-medieval period, later than 1500, date to the period of the English Civil War (1642–1651), from which time over 200 hoards are known.^[77]

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
		mid 17th century	Abbotsham Devon 51°00′58″N 4°15′00″W / 51.016°N 4.250°W / 51.016; -4.250 (Abbotsham Hoard)	2001	Bideford Museum	9 gold coins 425 silver coins[78]
		mid 17th century	High Ackworth West Yorkshire 53°39′18″N 1°20′06″W / 53.655°N 1.335°W / 53.655; -1.335 (Ackworth Hoard)	2011	Pontefract Museum	52 gold coins, 539 silver coins, and a gold ring inscribed "When this you see, remember me", in a clay Wrenthorpe ware pot.[79]
		mid 17th century	Alderwasley Derbyshire 53°04′23″N 1°31′26″W / 53.073°N 1.524°W / 53.073; -1.524 (Alderwasley Hoard)	1971	Derby Museum and Art Gallery	907g of silver clippings from coins issued by Philip and Mary (1553–1558), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), James I (1603–1625), and Charles I (1625–1649), stored in an earthenware jar.[80][note 4]
		early 16th century	Asthall Oxfordshire 51°48′N 1°35′W / 51.80°N 1.58°W / 51.80; -1.58 (Asthall Hoard)	2007	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	210 English gold angels and half-angel coins dating to the period 1470–1526[81]
		early 18th century	Bishops Waltham Hampshire 50°57′14″N 1°12′47″W / 50.954°N 1.213°W / 50.954; -1.213 (Bishops Waltham Hoard)	?		7,083 forged French 30-denier coins dated 1711[82]
Bitterley Hoard		mid 17th century	Bitterley Shropshire 52°23′42″N 2°38′42″W / 52.395°N 2.645°W / 52.395; -2.645 (Bitterley Hoard)	2011		1 gold coin and 137 silver coins (half crowns and shillings) with a leather purse in a tyg[83]
Breckenbrough Hoard		mid 17th century	Breckenbrough North Yorkshire 54°14′47″N 1°25′38″W / 54.246480°N 1.4271327°W / 54.246480; -1.4271327 (Breckenbrough Hoard)	June 1985	Yorkshire Museum	30 gold and 1552 silver coins, within a ceramic vessel, and two receipts for cheese.[84]
Cheapside Hoard		late 16th to early 17th century	Cheapside, London	1912	Museum of London, British Museum, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London	Over 400 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery[85]
		mid 16th century	Deal Kent 51°13′23″N 1°24′04″E / 51.223°N 1.401°E / 51.223; 1.401 (Deal Hoard)	2000	British Museum, London	191 base silver coins within a linen bag inside a pot[86]
		mid 20th century (1940)	Hackney London 51°34′16″N 0°04′52″W / 51.571°N 0.081°W / 51.571; -0.081 (Hackney Hoard)	2007	British Museum, London	80 American Double eagle gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913[87][88]
		mid 17th century	Haddiscoe Norfolk 52°31′30″N 1°37′12″E / 52.525°N 1.620°E / 52.525; 1.620 (Haddiscoe Hoard)	2003	Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth	316 silver coins[89][90]
		mid 17th century	Ham Green Worcestershire 52°31′30″N 1°37′12″E / 52.525°N 1.620°E / 52.525; 1.620 (Haddiscoe Hoard)	1981	Museums Worcestershire	86 silver coins (mostly shillings and sixpences) in a salt glazed stoneware bottle which was buried beneath the floor of the pantry in a cottage, the coins mostly dating to the Civil War period, but the latest coins minted 1661/1662.[91]
		early 16th century	Hartford Cambridgeshire 52°20′13″N 0°09′32″W / 52.337°N 0.159°W / 52.337; -0.159 (Hartford Hoard)	1964	British Museum, London	1,108 silver groats from the reigns of Edward IV, Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VII, and double patards of Charles the Bold[92]
		early 19th century	North Kesteven Lincolnshire 53°11′06″N 0°35′24″W / 53.185°N 0.59°W / 53.185; -0.59 (Lincoln Spanish-American gold hoard)	1928 2010		24 Spanish-American gold 8-escudo coins minted between 1790 and 1801 (18 discovered in 1928, and 6 discovered in 2010)[93]
		15th to 17th century	Lindsey Suffolk	2020		1,061 silver coins were found on land belonging to the Lindsey Rose pub, dating back between the 15th to 17th centuries.[94]
[note 5]		mid 16th century	Lindisfarne Northumberland 55°40′16″N 1°48′04″W / 55.671°N 1.801°W / 55.671; -1.801 (Mason Hoard)	2003	Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	10 gold and 7 silver coins, including 11 English coins dating from the reigns of Henry VI through Elizabeth I and 6 coins from France, Saxony, the Netherlands and the Papal States, in a mid-16th century German jug.[95]
Middleham Hoard		mid 17th century	Middleham North Yorkshire 54°16′47″N 1°50′24″W / 54.2797°N 1.8399°W / 54.2797; -1.8399 (Middleham Hoard)	1993	Dispersed amongst various museums and private collections, including Yorkshire Museum, York	5,099 silver coins, comprising 4,772 English coins of Edward VI through Charles I, 31 Scottish coins, 10 Irish coins, 245 coins from the Spanish Netherlands, and 2 coins from the Spanish New World. The coins were found in three pots from two different pits, and were probably deposited at slightly different dates.[96]
Mitton Hoard		15th century	Great Mitton Lancashire 53°50′46″N 2°26′31″W / 53.846°N 2.442°W / 53.846; -2.442 (Mitton Hoard)	2009	Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire	11 silver coins or fragments, including one or two from France.[97]
		mid 17th century	Nether Stowey Somerset 51°09′07″N 3°09′11″W / 51.152°N 3.153°W / 51.152; -3.153 (Nether Stowey Hoard)	2008	Somerset County Museum,Taunton	Silverware, including four spoons, a goblet and a bell salt, in an incomplete earthenware vessel[98]
[note 6]		mid 16th century	Lindisfarne Northumberland 55°40′16″N 1°48′04″W / 55.671°N 1.801°W / 55.671; -1.801 (Mason Hoard)	1962		50 English silver sixpences and groats, the latest dating to 1562 during the reign of Elizabeth II, in a mid-16th century German jug.[95]
		mid 17th century	Tidenham Gloucestershire 51°40′N 2°38′W / 51.66°N 2.64°W / 51.66; -2.64 (Tidenham Hoard)	1999	Chepstow Museum	1 gold coin 117 silver coins[99]
		mid 17th century	Totnes Devon 50°25′55″N 3°41′02″W / 50.432°N 3.684°W / 50.432; -3.684 (Totnes Hoard)	1930s	Totnes Museum	176 silver coins of England, Scotland, Ireland and Spanish Netherlands[100]
Tregwynt Hoard		mid 17th century	Tregwynt Pembrokeshire 51°58′12″N 5°04′23″W / 51.970°N 5.073°W / 51.970; -5.073 (Tregwynt Hoard)	1996	National Museum Wales, Cardiff	33 gold coins 467 silver coins a gold ring[77]
		early 16th century	Warkworth Northumberland 55°20′24″N 1°36′43″W / 55.340°N 1.6120°W / 55.340; -1.6120 (Warkworth Hoard)	2017	Private ownership	128 coins, comprising groat and half-groat coins from the reigns of Edward IV (r. 1461–1470 and 1471–1483) and Henry VII (r. 1485–1509), as well as nine coins issued by Charles the Bold when he was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477.[101]
		early 17th century	Warmsworth South Yorkshire 53°29′53″N 1°10′55″W / 53.498°N 1.182°W / 53.498; -1.182 (Warmsworth Hoard)	1999	Doncaster Museum	122 silver coins pottery fragments bronze alloy spoon[102]
		mid 17th century	Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucestershire 52°04′05″N 1°49′01″W / 52.068°N 1.817°W / 52.068; -1.817 (Weston-sub-Edge Hoard)	1981	Corinium Museum, Cirencester	307 silver and 2 gold coins.[103]

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