List of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain

The list of Iron Age 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) that are associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD. 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. Hoards of Celtic coins dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Britain are also included here.

List of hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Alton Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Alton, Hampshire 51°08′56″N 0°58′37″W / 51.149°N 0.977°W	1996	British Museum, London	50 gold staters of Commios, Tincomarus and Epillus (Hoard A) 206 gold staters of Tincomarus and Verica (Hoard B) 1 Roman gold ring 1 Roman gold bracelet[1][2]
Beaminster Hoard		early 1st century	Beaminster, Dorset 50°48′32″N 2°44′24″W / 50.809°N 2.740°W	2003	Dorset County Museum, Dorchester	160 silver staters[3]
Beverley Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Beverley, East Yorkshire 53°50′42″N 0°25′37″W / 53.845°N 0.427°W	1999–2007	Hull Museums Collections British Museum, London	110 gold staters[4][5]
Cheriton Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Cheriton, Hampshire 51°03′09″N 1°10′13″W / 51.05245°N 1.170325°W	1984	British Museum, London	50 gold staters[6]
Chute Forest Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Chute Forest, Wiltshire 51°15′57″N 1°33′23″W / 51.265865°N 1.556348°W	1927	British Museum, London	36 gold staters[7]
Clacton Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Clacton-on-Sea, Essex 51°47′31″N 1°08′46″E / 51.79197°N 1.145973°E	1898	British Museum, London	76 gold staters[8]
Climping Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Climping, West Sussex 50°48′47″N 0°34′41″W / 50.813°N 0.578°W	2000	British Museum, London	18 gold staters[note 1][10]
Dovedale Hoard		1st century BC	Reynard's Cave and Kitchen, Dovedale, Derbyshire 53°04′11″N 1°47′05″W / 53.0696°N 1.7848°W	2014	Buxton Museum and Art Gallery	26 gold and silver coins, including three pre-conquest Roman coins, and 20 Late Iron Age gold and silver coins belonging to the Corieltauvi tribe[11]
Essendon Hoard		60 BC to 20 BC	Essendon, Hertfordshire 51°45′46″N 0°09′11″W / 51.762913°N 0.153169°W	1992	British Museum, London	257 gold coins, 7 swords, 4 spearheads, a dagger and a decorated sheet of bronze that may have faced a wooden shield, various ingots and segments of a gold torc[12]
Farmborough Hoard		early 1st century	Farmborough, Somerset 51°20′35″N 2°29′02″W / 51.343°N 2.484°W	1984	British Museum, London	61 gold staters[13]
Field Baulk Hoard		mid 1st century	Field Baulk, March, Cambridgeshire 52°32′20″N 0°05′13″E / 52.539°N 0.087°E	1982	British Museum, London	872 silver coins minted by the Iceni tribe, in a round pot[14]
Great Leighs Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Great Leighs, Essex 51°49′37″N 0°30′22″E / 51.827°N 0.506°E	1998–1999	Chelmsford Museums	40 gold staters[15]
Hallaton Treasure		1st century AD	Hallaton, Leicestershire 52°33′00″N 0°50′00″W / 52.550°N 0.8333°W	2000	Harborough Museum	5,000 silver and gold coins a silver gilt Roman parade helmet jewellery[16]
Honingham Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Honingham, Norfolk 52°39′47″N 1°06′29″E / 52.663°N 1.108°E	1954	Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery	341 Iceni silver coins[17]
Ipswich Hoard		1st century BC	Ipswich, Suffolk 52°03′32″N 1°09′22″E / 52.059°N 1.156°E	1968–1969	British Museum, London	6 gold twisted torcs[18]
Kimbolton Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire 52°18′29″N 0°24′25″W / 52.308°N 0.407°W	2010		67 gold staters and one gold quarter-stater[19]
Langstone Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Ringland, Newport 51°36′36″N 2°53′53″W / 51.610°N 2.898°W	2007		2 bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer[20]
Little Horwood Hoard		1st century BC	Little Horwood, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire 51°58′05″N 0°51′00″W / 51.968°N 0.850°W	2006–2007	Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury	75 staters found over an 11-month period which are said to be part of the Whaddon Chase Hoard[21][22][23]
Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard		4th century BC to 1st century AD	Llyn Cerrig Bach, near Valley, Anglesey 53°15′32″N 4°32′24″W / 53.259°N 4.540°W	1942	National Museum Cardiff	votive objects deposited over a period of several hundred years, comprising over 150 items of bronze and iron, including 7 swords, 6 spearheads, fragments of a shield, part of a bronze trumpet, 2 gang chains, fragments of iron wagon tyres and horse gear, blacksmith's tools, fragments of two cauldrons, and iron bars[24]
Llyn Fawr Hoard		8th to 7th century BC	Llyn Fawr Lake, Rhigos, Glamorgan 51°43′12″N 3°34′05″W / 51.720°N 3.568°W	1909–1913	National Museum Cardiff	bronze cauldron, a number of chisels, sickles and socketed axes, a sword, a spearhead, a razor, and horse harness equipment[25]
Lochar Moss Hoard		50 to 200 AD	Lochar Moss, near Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway 55°05′09″N 3°34′50″W / 55.0858829°N 3.5806428°W	1840s	British Museum, London	brass torc and bronze bowl[26]
North Foreland Hoard		early 1st century BC	North Foreland, Kent 51°22′30″N 1°26′42″E / 51.375°N 1.445°E	1999	Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington-on-Sea	63 potin (a bronze alloy with high tin content) coins[27]
Peatling Magna Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Peatling Magna, near Market Harborough Leicestershire 52°31′41″N 1°07′37″W / 52.528°N 1.127°W	2012	Harborough Museum	10 gold staters minted in northern France or the Low Countries[28]
Polden Hill Hoard		50 AD to 100 AD	Polden Hill, Somerset 51°09′38″N 2°55′26″W / 51.160549°N 2.923972°W	1800	British Museum, London	about 90 metal artefacts including horse gear and trappings, segments of 3 shields, 6 brooches, 3 bracelets, parts of 2 torcs[29]
Salisbury Hoard		3rd century BC[note 2]	Netherhampton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire 51°04′26″N 1°47′38″W / 51.074°N 1.794°W	1988	British Museum, London	over 600 objects, mostly miniature bronze versions of shields, tools, daggers and spearheads[30]
Scole Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Scole, Norfolk 52°21′50″N 1°09′22″E / 52.364°N 1.156°E	1982–1983		202 Iceni silver coins and 87 Roman coins[31]
Sedgeford Hoard		1st century BC	Sedgeford, Norfolk 52°54′N 0°33′W / 52.90°N 0.55°W	2003	King's Lynn Museum	39 Gallo-Belgic gold staters, concealed inside a cowbone[32]
Shalfleet Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	Shalfleet, Isle of Wight 50°42′04″N 1°27′29″W / 50.701°N 1.458°W	2009	Sold at Bonhams, 2011.[33]	four large bowl-shaped silver ingots, six small silver fragments and one gold British B (or "Chute") stater of Late Iron Age date.[34]
Silsden Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Silsden, West Yorkshire 53°54′50″N 1°56′13″W / 53.914°N 1.937°W	1998	Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley	27 gold coins and a finger ring[35]
Snettisham Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Ken Hill, near Snettisham, Norfolk 52°53′06″N 0°29′20″E / 52.885°N 0.489°E	1948–1973	British Museum, London Norwich Castle Museum	over 150 gold torc fragments (over 70 of which form complete torcs), and various objects made of metal and jet[36]
Southend Hoard		60-50 BC	Southend-on-Sea, Essex 51°32′18″N 0°42′52″E / 51.53832°N 0.714513°E	1986	British Museum, London	pottery sherds and 33 gold staters[37]
South Norfolk Hoard		late 1st century BC	South Norfolk	2012–2013	Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery	44 'Norfolk Wolf' debased gold staters[38][39]
South Wight Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	South Wight, Isle of Wight 50°36′00″N 1°12′00″W / 50.600°N 1.200°W	2004	British Museum, London	18 gold staters, 138 silver staters, 1 thin silver coin, 7 copper alloy coins of the Roman period, 2 bowl shaped silver ingots, 1 bowl shaped copper alloy ingot, 5 sherds of Iron Age pottery [40][41]
Stanwick Hoard		50 BC to 100 AD	Stanwick, North Yorkshire 54°30′24″N 1°43′32″W / 54.506627°N 1.725548°W	1843	British Museum, London	about 180 metal artefacts including four sets of horse harnesses for chariots and a bronze horse head [42]
Stirling Hoard		3rd to 1st century BC	Near Blair Drummond, Stirlingshire 56°10′01″N 4°02′38″W / 56.167°N 4.044°W	2009	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	4 gold torcs[43]
Stonea Hoard		20-50 AD	Stonea, Cambridgeshire 52°31′12″N 0°08′35″E / 52.519927°N 0.14303°E	1983	British Museum, London	pottery beaker and over 850 silver coins[44]
Sunbury Hoard		2nd century BC	Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey 51°25′19″N 0°25′08″W / 51.422°N 0.419°W	1950	Museum of London, London	317 tin alloy coins and 56 fragments, together with fragments of a pottery vessel[45]
Syngenta Hoard[note 3]		mid 1st century BC	Jealott's Hill, near Bracknell, Berkshire 51°27′22″N 0°44′53″W / 51.456°N 0.748°W	1998	Reading Museum	58 gold coins[46]
Tal-y-Llyn Hoard		1st century AD	near Tal-y-llyn Lake, Cadair Idris, Merionethshire 52°40′19″N 3°53′49″W / 52.672°N 3.897°W	1963	National Museum Cardiff	1 brass plaque, fragments from two brass shields, several decorated brass plates (possibly from a ceremonial cart), and part of a Roman lock[47]
Whaddon Chase Hoard		1st century BC	near Whaddon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire 52°00′00″N 0°49′41″W / 52.000°N 0.828°W	1849 & 2006	British Museum, London[48] Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury	between 450[49] and 800[50] and 2,000 gold staters[21] — see also Little Horwood Hoard
Whitchurch Hoard		1st century BC	Whitchurch, Hampshire 51°13′44″N 1°20′06″W / 51.229°N 1.335°W	1987	Hampshire Museums Service (4 of each type). The remainder sold at Christies, October 1988, lots 236-246.	34 Gallo-Belgic E gold staters, and 108 British B (or, Chute,) gold staters.[51]
Wickham Market Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	Wickham Market, Suffolk 52°09′00″N 1°22′01″E / 52.150°N 1.367°E	2008	Ipswich Museum	840 gold staters[52][53]
Winchester Hoard		1st century BC	near Winchester, Hampshire 51°03′47″N 1°18′29″W / 51.063°N 1.308°W	2000	British Museum, London	4 gold brooches 1 gold chain 1 gold bracelet (complete) 2 gold bracelet halves 2 gold torcs[54]
Walkington Hoard		1st century BC	Walkington, East Yorkshire 53°49′14″N 0°29′17″W / 53.820636°N 0.487977°W	2005	Yorkshire Museum, York	a collection of gold staters of the Corieltauvi. Various types of coin. Discovered in batches but regarded as associated.[55][56]

See also

• List of hoards in Britain
• List of Bronze Age hoards in Britain
• List of Roman hoards in Britain

Notes

1. A previously unknown type of stater was found which henceforth became known as the "Climping type". It is thought that there was more to the hoard, but it had become dispersed.^[9]
2. Although buried in the Iron Age, some of the objects in the Salisbury Hoard are dateable to the early Bronze Age (circa 2400 BC), and may have been recovered from a Bronze Age hoard.
3. The Syngenta Hoard is named after the company on whose land the hoard was found.

Footnotes

1. "Alton hoard of Iron Age coins & jewellery". Art Fund. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
2. British Museum Collection
3. Gannon, Voden-Decker & Bland 2004b, pp. 151, 183
4. Bland 2000, p. 100
5. "Celtic Gold". Hull City Council. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
6. British Museum Collection
7. British Museum Collection
8. British Museum Collection
9. Gannon, Voden-Decker & Bland 2004b, p. 7
10. Bland & Voden-Decker 2002, pp. 106–107, 133
11. "Dovedale Roman and Iron Age coins found after 2,000 years". BBC News. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
12. British Museum Collection
13. "coin". British Museum. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
14. "Hoard of Iceni silver coins". British Museum. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
15. Bland 2000, pp. 98–99
16. "The Hallaton Treasure". Harborough Museum. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
17. "Coin hoard from Honingham". Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
18. British Museum Collection
19. "Iron Age gold coins discovered in Kimbolton". Hunts Post. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
20. "Record ID: NMGW-9C0216". Portable Antiquities Scheme. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
21. Barton & Hitchcock 2008, p. 184
22. Lewis 2009, p. 87
23. "Little Horwood Hoard by Iron Age". The Art Fund. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
24. "Artefacts from Llyn Cerrig Bach". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
25. "Cauldron from Llyn Fawr". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
26. British Museum Collection
27. Bland 2000, p. 98
28. "Hoard of Celtic coins found in Leicestershire". BBC News. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
29. British Museum Collection
30. "The Salisbury Hoard". British Museum. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
31. Hutcheson, Natasha C. G. (2004). Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, Landscape and Society. Archaeopress. p. 105. ISBN 9781841715827. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
32. "Record ID: PAS-B1F065". Portable Antiquities Scheme. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
33. Bonhams, Antiquities, 13 April 2011, lot 248
34. Leins, Ian; Joy, Jody; Basford, Frank , Portable Antiquities Scheme, Record ID: IOW-EAAFE2. Retrieved 21 November 2013
35. Bland 2000, pp. 103–104
36. "The Snettisham Hoard". British Museum. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
37. British Museum Collection
38. "Norfolk wolf coins unearthed in treasure find". BBC News. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
39. "Coin Hoard NMS-397D42". Portable Antiquities Scheme. 26 November 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
40. Williams, Jonathan; Hill, J.D., Portable Antiquities Scheme, Record ID: IOW-38B400. Retrieved 21 November 2013
41. , The Art Fund, The Isle of Wight Ingot Hoard
42. British Museum Collection
43. "First Pictures of Stirling Iron Age Gold Hoard Treasure". Heritage Key. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
44. British Museum Collection
45. Linecar, Howard (1949–1951). "On a find of early British tin coins at Sunbury-on-Thames" (PDF). British Numismatic Journal 26: 339–340.
46. "Syngenta Coin Hoard" (PDF). Reading Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2010-07-18.
47. "Tal-y-Llyn Plaque". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
48. British Museum Collection
49. Barton & Hitchcock 2008, pp. 95, 123
50. "Huge Iron Age haul of coins found". BBC. 17 January 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
51. Burnett, A.M.; Cowell, M.R. , British Numismatic Journal, 1988, Vol.58, p.6ff. Retrieved 21 November 2013
52. "Iron Age coins declared treasure". BBC. 3 July 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
53. "Iron Age gold hoard saved for Ipswich Museum". The Art Fund. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
54. Bland & Voden-Decker 2002, pp. 16–18
55. Griffiths, Rebecca. "COIN HOARD: YORYM-E42AA8". Portable Antiquities Scheme. The British Museum. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
56. Woods, Andrew. "Yorkshire Hoards - Prehistoric Wealth". Google Cultural Institute. Google / York Museums Trust. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

References

• Barton, Caroline; Hitchcock, Fi, eds. (2008). Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
• Bland, Roger, ed. (2000). Treasure Annual Report 1998 - 1999 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
• Bland, Roger; Voden-Decker, Lisa, eds. (2002). Treasure Annual Report 2000 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
• Bland, Roger; Voden-Decker, Lisa, eds. (2003). Treasure Annual Report 2001 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
• Gannon, Anna; Voden-Decker, Lisa; Bland, Roger, eds. (2004a). Treasure Annual Report 2002 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
• Gannon, Anna; Voden-Decker, Lisa; Bland, Roger, eds. (2004b). Treasure Annual Report 2003 (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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• Lewis, Michael, ed. (2009). Portable Antiquities and Treasure Annual Report 2007 (PDF). Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, British Museum. ISBN 978-0-9563795-1-1.