The Water Newton Treasure
Nine silver vessels and some 18 votive plaques marked with the Chi-Rho, ploughed up at Roman Durobrivae, 1975: the earliest known Christian church plate.
Hacksilver is the cut-up silver that Viking-age traders weighed out as money. This site catalogues hoards like the ones it turns up in, and many older and later: who buried them, what they hold, how archaeologists date them, and where you can see them now. Every account is written for this site and checked against museum and published sources.
Across the ages
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Nebra hoard (Nebra sky disc)
A bronze disc inlaid with a gold sun, moon and stars, buried c. 1600 BC with two swords, two axes, a chisel and arm spirals; looted 1999, recovered 2002.
Oxus Treasure
About 180 pieces of Achaemenid Persian gold and silver found by the Oxus river around 1877-1880, sold through traders in British India and now in London.
Hoxne Hoard
A Suffolk oak chest packed after AD 407 with 14,865 gold, silver and bronze coins, a gold body-chain, pepper pots and nearly 100 silver spoons.
Pietroasele Treasure
A Gothic gold hoard of 22 pieces found by quarrymen in Romania in 1837; twelve survive, including eagle brooches and a runic neck-ring, in Bucharest.
Sutton Hoo ship burial
A 7th-century king's grave in a 27-metre ship, dug in Suffolk in 1939: gold and garnet regalia, a helmet, Byzantine silver and 37 Frankish coins.
Spillings Hoard
The largest Viking silver hoard known: about 67 kg of silver, 14,295 coins and nearly 500 arm-rings, buried in a Gotland storehouse after AD 870.
Środa Treasure
A royal crown, a Staufer cameo brooch and nearly 8,000 coins, pledged to a Jewish banker in 1348 and found in Środa Śląska in 1985 and 1988.
Cheapside Hoard
About 500 jewels from a 17th-century goldsmith's stock, found under a Cheapside cellar in 1912: the finest Elizabethan and Stuart jewellery anywhere.
Where they were found
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All object typesTools and guides
Buried and found
Every hoard on one chart: when it went into the ground against when it came out.
Weight explorer
What a hoard's silver could have bought, using cited prices from its own time.
How treasure law works
What counts as treasure in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, who owns it, how rewards are split, and how other countries handle finds.
How hoards are dated
Latest coins, wear, style, radiocarbon and containers: how archaeologists date a buried hoard, with worked examples from Vale of York, Hoxne and Frome.
Responsible detecting
Permission, protected sites, recording finds and why context matters: how detectorists in Britain stay legal and help archaeology rather than harm it.
Hoards in Wikidata
A searchable list of every hoard recorded in Wikidata, refreshed weekly.