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 51.149°N 0.977°W / 51.149; -0.977 (Alton A Hoard)	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 50.809°N 2.740°W / 50.809; -2.740 (Beaminster Hoard)	2003	Dorset Museum, Dorchester	160 silver staters[3]
Beverley Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Beverley, East Yorkshire 53.845°N 0.427°W / 53.845; -0.427 (Beverley Hoard)	1999–2007	Hull Museums Collections British Museum, London	110 gold staters[4][5]
Blythburgh Hoard		early 1st century AD	Blythburgh, Suffolk 52.32°N 1.60°E / 52.32; 1.60 (Blythburgh Hoard)	2019		19 gold staters and quarter staters of Addedomaros, king of the Trinovantes, dating to 45–25 BC[6]
Cheriton Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Cheriton, Hampshire 51.05245°N 1.170325°W / 51.05245; -1.170325 (Cheriton Hoard)	1984	British Museum, London Winchester City Museum	50 gold staters and quarter staters[7]
Chute Forest Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Chute Forest, Wiltshire 51.265865°N 1.556348°W / 51.265865; -1.556348 (Chute Forest Hoard)	1927	British Museum, London	36 gold staters[8]
Clacton Hoard		80 to 60 BC	Clacton-on-Sea, Essex 51.79197°N 1.145973°E / 51.79197; 1.145973 (Clacton Hoard)	1898	British Museum, London	76 gold staters[9]
Climping Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Climping, West Sussex 50.813°N 0.578°W / 50.813; -0.578 (Climping Hoard)	2000	British Museum, London	18 gold staters[note 1][11]
Dovedale Hoard		1st century BC	Reynard's Cave and Kitchen, Dovedale, Derbyshire 53.0696°N 1.7848°W / 53.0696; -1.7848 (Dovedale Hoard)	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[12]
Essendon Hoard		60 BC to 20 BC	Essendon, Hertfordshire 51.762913°N 0.153169°W / 51.762913; -0.153169 (Essendon Hoard)	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[13]
Farmborough Hoard		early 1st century	Farmborough, Somerset 51.343°N 2.484°W / 51.343; -2.484 (Farmborough Hoard)	1984	British Museum, London	61 gold staters[14]
Field Baulk Hoard		mid 1st century	Field Baulk, March, Cambridgeshire 52.539°N 0.087°E / 52.539; 0.087 (Field Baulk Hoard)	1982	British Museum, London	872 silver coins minted by the Iceni tribe, in a round pot[15]
Great Leighs Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Great Leighs, Essex 51.827°N 0.506°E / 51.827; 0.506 (Great Leighs Hoard)	1998–1999	Chelmsford Museum	40 gold staters[16]
Hallaton Treasure		1st century AD	Hallaton, Leicestershire 52.550°N 0.8333°W / 52.550; -0.8333 (Hallaton Treasure)	2000	Harborough Museum	5,000 silver and gold coins a silver gilt Roman parade helmet jewellery[17]
Honingham Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Honingham, Norfolk 52.663°N 1.108°E / 52.663; 1.108 (Honingham Hoard)	1954	Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery	341 Iceni silver coins[18]
Ipswich Hoard		1st century BC	Ipswich, Suffolk 52.059°N 1.156°E / 52.059; 1.156 (Ipswich Hoard (1968-1969))	1968–1969	British Museum, London	6 gold twisted torcs[19]
Kimbolton Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire 52.308°N 0.407°W / 52.308; -0.407 (Kimbolton Hoard)	2010		67 gold staters and one gold quarter-stater[20]
Langstone Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Ringland, Newport 51.610°N 2.898°W / 51.610; -2.898 (Langstone Hoard)	2007		2 bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer[21]
Leekfrith torcs		4th to mid 3rd century BC	Leekfrith, Staffordshire 53.137°N 2.045°W / 53.137; -2.045 (Leekfrith torcs)	2016		4 gold torcs[22]
Little Horwood Hoard		1st century BC	Little Horwood, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire 51.968°N 0.850°W / 51.968; -0.850 (Little Horwood Hoard)	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[23][24][25]
Llangoed Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Llangoed Anglesey 53.290°N 4.090°W / 53.290; -4.090 (Llangoed Hoard)	2021–2022	Oriel Ynys Môn	Fifteen gold staters of the Corieltauvi tribe[26]
Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard		4th century BC to 1st century AD	Llyn Cerrig Bach, near Valley, Anglesey 53.259°N 4.540°W / 53.259; -4.540 (Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard)	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[27]
Llyn Fawr Hoard		8th to 7th century BC	Llyn Fawr Lake, Rhigos, Glamorgan 51.720°N 3.568°W / 51.720; -3.568 (Llyn Fawr Hoard)	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[28]
Lochar Moss Hoard		50 to 200 AD	Lochar Moss, near Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway 55.0858829°N 3.5806428°W / 55.0858829; -3.5806428 (Lochar Moss Hoard)	1840s	British Museum, London	brass torc and bronze bowl[29]
Melsonby Hoard		100BC to 50 AD	Melsonby, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire	2021	Yorkshire Museum	nearly 900 metalwork objects, including wheels, horse-gear and decorative fittings. [30]
North Foreland Hoard		early 1st century BC	North Foreland, Kent 51.375°N 1.445°E / 51.375; 1.445 (North Foreland Hoard)	1999	Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington-on-Sea	63 potin (a bronze alloy with high tin content) coins[31]
Peatling Magna Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Peatling Magna, near Market Harborough Leicestershire 52.528°N 1.127°W / 52.528; -1.127 (Peatling Magna Hoard)	2012	Harborough Museum	10 gold staters minted in northern France or the Low Countries[32]
Polden Hill Hoard		50 AD to 100 AD	Polden Hill, Somerset 51.160549°N 2.923972°W / 51.160549; -2.923972 (Polden Hill Hoard)	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[33]
Riseholme Hoard		50 BC to 50 AD	Riseholme, Lincolnshire 53.265°N 0.530°W / 53.265; -0.530 (Riseholme Hoard)	2017	The Collection, Lincoln Museum	40 gold staters, 231 silver units, and 11 silver half units attributed to the Corieltauvi tribe.[34]
Salisbury Hoard		3rd century BC[note 2]	Netherhampton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire 51.074°N 1.794°W / 51.074; -1.794 (Salisbury Hoard)	1988	British Museum, London	over 600 objects, mostly miniature bronze versions of shields, tools, daggers and spearheads[35]
Scole Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Scole, Norfolk 52.364°N 1.156°E / 52.364; 1.156 (Scole Hoard)	1982–1983		202 Iceni silver coins and 87 Roman coins[36]
Sedgeford Hoard		1st century BC	Sedgeford, Norfolk 52.90°N 0.55°W / 52.90; -0.55 (Sedgeford Hoard)	2003	King's Lynn Museum	39 Gallo-Belgic gold staters, concealed inside a cowbone[37]
Shalfleet Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	Shalfleet, Isle of Wight 50.701°N 1.458°W / 50.701; -1.458 (Shalfleet Hoard)	2009	Sold at Bonhams, 2011.[38]	four large bowl-shaped silver ingots, six small silver fragments and one gold British B (or "Chute") stater of Late Iron Age date.[39]
Silsden Hoard		mid 1st century AD	Silsden, West Yorkshire 53.914°N 1.937°W / 53.914; -1.937 (Silsden Hoard)	1998	Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley	27 gold coins and a finger ring[40]
Snettisham Hoard		mid 1st century BC	Ken Hill, near Snettisham, Norfolk 52.885°N 0.489°E / 52.885; 0.489 (Snettisham Hoard)	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[41]
Southend Hoard		60-50 BC	Southend-on-Sea, Essex 51.53832°N 0.714513°E / 51.53832; 0.714513 (Southend Hoard)	1986	British Museum, London	pottery sherds and 33 gold staters[42]
South Norfolk Hoard		late 1st century BC	South Norfolk	2012–2013	Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery	44 'Norfolk Wolf' debased gold staters[43][44]
South Wight Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	South Wight, Isle of Wight 50.600°N 1.200°W / 50.600; -1.200 (South Wight Hoard)	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[45][46]
Stanwick Hoard		50 BC to 100 AD	Stanwick, North Yorkshire 54.506627°N 1.725548°W / 54.506627; -1.725548 (Stanwick Hoard)	1843	British Museum, London	about 180 metal artefacts including four sets of horse harnesses for chariots and a bronze horse head[47]
Stirling Hoard		3rd to 1st century BC	Near Blair Drummond, Stirlingshire 56.167°N 4.044°W / 56.167; -4.044 (Stirling Hoard)	2009	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	4 gold torcs[48]
Stonea Hoard		20-50 AD	Stonea, Cambridgeshire 52.519927°N 0.14303°E / 52.519927; 0.14303 (Stonea Hoard)	1983	British Museum, London	pottery beaker and over 850 silver coins[49]
Sunbury Hoard		2nd century BC	Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey 51.422°N 0.419°W / 51.422; -0.419 (Sunbury Hoard)	1950	Museum of London, London	317 tin alloy coins and 56 fragments, together with fragments of a pottery vessel[50]
Syngenta Hoard[note 3]		mid 1st century BC	Jealott's Hill, near Bracknell, Berkshire 51.456°N 0.748°W / 51.456; -0.748 (Syngenta Hoard)	1998	Reading Museum	58 gold coins[51]
Tal-y-Llyn Hoard		1st century AD	near Tal-y-llyn Lake, Cadair Idris, Merionethshire 52.672°N 3.897°W / 52.672; -3.897 (Tal-y-Llyn Hoard)	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[52]
Whaddon Chase Hoard		1st century BC	near Whaddon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire 52.000°N 0.828°W / 52.000; -0.828 (Whaddon Chase Hoard)	1849 & 2006	British Museum, London[53] Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury	between 450[54] and 800[55] and 2,000 gold staters[23] — see also Little Horwood Hoard
Whitchurch Hoard		1st century BC	Whitchurch, Hampshire 51.229°N 1.335°W / 51.229; -1.335 (Whitchurch Hoard)	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.[56]
Wickham Market Hoard		late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD	Wickham Market, Suffolk 52.150°N 1.367°E / 52.150; 1.367 (Wickham Market Hoard)	2008	Ipswich Museum	840 gold staters[57][58]
Winchester Hoard		1st century BC	near Winchester, Hampshire 51.063°N 1.308°W / 51.063; -1.308 (Winchester Hoard or Treasure)	2000	British Museum, London	4 gold brooches 1 gold chain 1 gold bracelet (complete) 2 gold bracelet halves 2 gold torcs[59]
Walkington Hoard		1st century BC	Walkington, East Yorkshire 53.820636°N 0.487977°W / 53.820636; -0.487977 (Walkington Hoard)	2005	Yorkshire Museum, York	a collection of gold staters of the Corieltauvi. Various types of coin. Discovered in batches but regarded as associated.[60][61]

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.^[10]
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.