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. It includes both hoards that were buried with the intention of retrieval at a later date, 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
Hoards dating to 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 | North Yorkshire | 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 | ||
| York Hoard | North Yorkshire | 1868 | Yorkshire Museum | ~70 flint tools and weapons |
Bronze Age hoards
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
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.Romano-British hoards
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
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 |
| Appledore Hoard | Kent | 1997 | British Museum, London | 490 pennies 12 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor | ||
| Bamburgh Hoard | Northumberland | 1999 and 2004 | Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle | 384 base metal stycas Copper alloy fragments Bronze folding balance | ||
| Beeston Tor Hoard | Staffordshire | 1926 | British Museum, London | 49 pennies, two silver brooches, three finger rings and assorted fragments | ||
| Brantham Hoard | Suffolk | 2003 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 90 silver pennies | ||
| Canterbury-St Martin's hoard | Kent | 1840s | World Museum, Liverpool | 8 items, including 3 gold coins, and two pieces of jewellery | ||
| Crondall Hoard | Hampshire | 1828 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 100 small gold coins and 2 cloisonné pins | ||
| Harkirke Hoard | Merseyside | 1611 | unknown | ~300 Viking and Kufic coins | ||
| Ipswich Hoard | Suffolk | 1863 | 150 coins | |||
| Lenborough Hoard | Buckinghamshire | 2014 | 5,251½ coins in a lead bucket, including coins of Ethelred the Unready and Canute | |||
| Pentney Hoard | Norfolk | 1978 | British Museum, London | 6 silver disc brooches | ||
| Staffordshire Hoard | Staffordshire | 2009 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | More than 1,500 items of gold and 1.3 kg, mostly sword fittings and decorative parts of weaponry, but also two gold crosses and an inscribed gold strip | ||
| Trewhiddle Hoard | Cornwall | 1774 | British Museum, London | 114 Anglo-Saxon coins, and various items of silverware, including a scourge, a chalice and a Celtic penannular brooch | ||
| Watlington Hoard | Oxfordshire | 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 | ||
| West Yorkshire Hoard | West Yorkshire | 2008–2009 | 5 items of 7th to 11th century gold jewellery, an ingot of gold, and a lead spindle whorl. |
Pictish hoards
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 |
| Aberdeenshire hoard | Aberdeenshire | 2014 | 100 pieces of hacksilver, comprising late Roman coins and pieces of Roman and Pictish silver vessels, bracelets and brooches. | |||
| Broch of Burgar Hoard | Orkney | 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 | ||
| Gaulcross Hoard | Aberdeenshire | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | several silver hand pins 1 silver bracelet 1 silver chain several silver brooches | |||
| Norrie's Law hoard | Fife | 1819 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | nearly 12.5 kg of silver objects, of which all but 750 g were melted down. The 153 surviving objects 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 | ||
| St Ninian's Isle Treasure | Shetland | 1958 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 8 silver bowls 12 silver penannular brooches 2 silver chapes 1 silver communion spoon 1 silver knife 1 silver pommel 3 silver cones |
Viking hoards
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 |
| Ainsbrook Hoard | North Yorkshire | 2003 | British Museum, London | ~130 objects of gold, silver, copper alloy, lead, iron, and stone | ||
| Ashdon Hoard | Late 9th century | Ashdon | 1984 | Fitzwilliam Museum | 71 silver pennies of Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and Carolingian origins | |
| Bedale Hoard | North Yorkshire | 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. | ||
| Bossall-Flaxton Hoard | North Yorkshire | 1807 | coins, bullion, arm-ring in a leaden box | |||
| Bryn Maelgwyn Hoard | Conwy | 1979 | National Museum Cardiff | 204 silver pennies of Cnut the Great | ||
| Cuerdale Hoard | Lancashire | 1840 | British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 8,600 items including silver coins and bullion | ||
| Eye Hoard | Herefordshire | 2015 | Dispersed | 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 | ||
| Furness Hoard | Cumbria | 2011 | Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness | 92 silver coins, including two Arabic dirhams, several silver ingots, and one silver bracelet. | ||
| Galloway Hoard | 2014 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | over 100 gold and silver items, including armbands, a Christian cross, brooches, ingots and an exceptionally large Carolingian pot | |||
| Goldsborough Hoard | North Yorkshire | 1859 | British Museum, London | fragments of Viking brooches and arm-rings, together with thirty-nine coins | ||
| Huxley Hoard | Cheshire | 2004 | World Museum, Liverpool | 22 silver pieces | ||
| Leominster hoard | Herefordshire | 2015 | Over 300 coins, silver ingot, gold jewellery. The hoard was initially split and sold. Only 31 coins remain. | |||
| Penrith Hoard | Cumbria | 1785–1989 | British Museum, London | a number of silver penannular brooches | ||
| Silverdale Hoard | Lancashire | 2011 | Museum of Lancashire, Preston, Lancaster City Museum | 201 silver objects inside a box made from a sheet of lead; comprising 27 coins, 10 arm rings, 2 finger rings, 14 ingots, 6 brooch fragments, 1 wire braid, and 141 pieces of hacksilver. | ||
| Skaill Hoard | Orkney | 1858 | Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | over 100 items, including bracelets, brooches, hacksilver, and ingots | ||
| Vale of York Hoard | North Yorkshire | 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 | ||
| Warton Hoard | Lancashire | 1997 | Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster | 3 silver dirhems of the Samanid dynasty 6 pieces of cut silver weighing |
Later Medieval hoards
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 |
| Abergavenny Hoard | Monmouthshire | 2002 | National Museum Cardiff | 199 silver pennies of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror | ||
| Baschurch Hoard | Shropshire | 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 | ||
| Beverley Hoard | East Yorkshire | 2000 | British Museum, London | 448 short cross pennies 27 cut half pennies | ||
| Chesterton Lane Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 2000 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 9 gold coins 1806 silver coins | ||
| Chesterton Lane Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 2000 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 9 gold coins 1806 silver coins | ||
| Chew Valley Hoard | Somerset | 2019 | 2,528 silver coins, including 1,236 coins of Harold II and 1,310 coins of William I | |||
| Colchester Hoard | Essex | 1902 | British Museum, London | 11,000 – 12,000 silver pennies in a lead canister | ||
| Colchester Hoard | Essex | 1969 | British Museum, London | over 14,000 silver pennies of Henry III in a lead canister | ||
| Cwm Nant Col Hoard | Gwynedd | 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 | ||
| Fauld Hoard | Staffordshire | 2000 | Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent | 114 silver groats | ||
| Fishpool Hoard | Nottinghamshire | 1966 | British Museum, London | 1,237 gold coins 8 pieces of jewellery 2 lengths of gold chain | ||
| Fillongley Hoard | Warwickshire | 1997 | Warwickshire Museum, Warwick | 2 silver brooches silver finger ring 127 short-cross pennies | ||
| Gayton Hoard | Northamptonshire | 1998–1999 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 308 silver pennies 7 fragments | ||
| Glenluce Hoard | Wigtownshire | 1956 | 2 English silver coins 10 Scottish silver coins 99 Scottish billon coins 1 Scottish copper farthing | |||
| Gorefield Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 1998 | British Museum, London Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | 1,084 silver pennies, halfpennies and farthings | ||
| Llanddona Hoard | Anglesey | 1999, 2005–2006 | returned to finder | 970 silver pennies | ||
| Piddletrenthide Hoard | Dorset | 2008 | 293 Medieval silver coins, comprising 272 complete pennies, 2 broken pennies, 14 half groats, and 4 groats, found in a fragmentary pottery vessel. | |||
| Reigate Hoard | Surrey | 1990 | dispersed | 135 gold nobles, half nobles and quarters 6,566 silver groats | ||
| Rhoneston Hoard | Dumfriesshire | 1961 | 7 English silver coins 6 Scottish silver coins 70 Scottish billon coins | |||
| Roslin Hoard | Midlothian | spring equinox day 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. | ||
| Rumney Castle Hoard | Cardiff | 1981 | 63 silver pennies from the reign of Edward I | |||
| Ryther Hoard | North Yorkshire | 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. | ||
| Tealby Hoard | Lincolnshire | 1807 | 5,127 melted down at the Tower of London; rest dispersed. | 5,731 silver pennies of the reign of Henry II, in a glazed earthenware pot. | ||
| Tutbury Hoard | Staffordshire | 1831 | dispersed | 360,000 silver coins | ||
| Twynholm Hoard | Dumfries and Galloway | 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 | |||
| Wainfleet Hoard | Lincolnshire | 1990 | British Museum, London | 380 silver pennies and 3 halfpennies in a green-glazed ceramic bottle |
Post-Medieval hoards
Most hoards from the post-medieval period, later than 1500, date to the period of the English Civil War, from which time over 200 hoards are known.| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
| Abbotsham Hoard | Devon | 2001 | Bideford Museum | 9 gold coins 425 silver coins | ||
| Ackworth Hoard | West Yorkshire | 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. | ||
| Alderwasley Hoard | Derbyshire | 1971 | Derby Museum and Art Gallery | 907g of silver clippings from coins issued by Philip and Mary, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, stored in an earthenware jar. | ||
| Asthall Hoard | Oxfordshire | 2007 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | 210 English gold angels and half-angel coins dating to the period 1470–1526 | ||
| Bishops Waltham Hoard | Hampshire | ? | 7,083 forged French 30-denier coins dated 1711 | |||
| Bitterley Hoard | Shropshire | 2011 | 1 gold coin and 137 silver coins with a leather purse in a tyg | |||
| Breckenbrough Hoard | North Yorkshire | June 1985 | Yorkshire Museum | 30 gold and 1552 silver coins, within a ceramic Ryedale ware vessel, and two receipts for cheese. | ||
| Cheapside Hoard | 1912 | Museum of London, British Museum, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | over 400 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery | |||
| Deal Hoard | Kent | 2000 | British Museum, London | 191 base silver coins within a linen bag inside a pot | ||
| Hackney Hoard | London | 2007 | British Museum, London | 80 American Double eagle gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913 | ||
| Haddiscoe Hoard | Norfolk | 2003 | Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth | 316 silver coins | ||
| Ham Green Hoard | Worcestershire | 1981 | Museums Worcestershire | 86 silver coins 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. | ||
| Hartford Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 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 | ||
| Lincoln Spanish-American gold hoards | Lincolnshire | 1928 2010 | 24 Spanish-American gold 8-escudo coins minted between 1790 and 1801 | |||
| Mason Hoard | Northumberland | 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. | ||
| Middleham Hoard | North Yorkshire | 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. | ||
| Mitton Hoard | Lancashire | 2009 | Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire | 11 silver coins or fragments, including one or two from France. | ||
| Nether Stowey Hoard | Somerset | 2008 | Somerset County Museum,Taunton | Silverware, including four spoons, a goblet and a bell salt, in an incomplete earthenware vessel | ||
| Short Hoard | Northumberland | 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. | |||
| Tidenham Hoard | Gloucestershire | 1999 | Chepstow Museum | 1 gold coin 117 silver coins | ||
| Totnes Hoard | Devon | 1930s | Totnes Museum | 176 silver coins of England, Scotland, Ireland and Spanish Netherlands | ||
| Tregwynt Hoard | Pembrokeshire | 1996 | National Museum Wales, Cardiff | 33 gold coins 467 silver coins a gold ring | ||
| Warkworth Hoard | Northumberland | 2017 | Private ownership | 128 coins, comprising groat and half-groat coins from the reigns of Edward IV and Henry VII, as well as nine coins issued by Charles the Bold when he was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. | ||
| Warmsworth Hoard | South Yorkshire | 1999 | Doncaster Museum | 122 silver coins pottery fragments bronze alloy spoon | ||
| Weston-sub-Edge Hoard | Gloucestershire | 1981 | Corinium Museum, Cirencester | 307 silver and 2 gold coins. |