HacksilverBuried treasure, catalogued

All hoards

95 hoards from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, ordered by when they were buried.

Period
Region
Material(none selected = any)

Priam's Treasure

Early Bronze Age gold and silver dug up by Schliemann at Troy in 1873 and named for King Priam; it is a thousand years too early, and now sits in Moscow.

Bronze Age · Turkey · found 1873

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.

Bronze Age · Germany · found 1999

Valchitran Treasure

Thirteen Late Bronze Age gold vessels weighing about 12.5 kg, turned up by two brothers in their vineyard near Pleven, Bulgaria, in December 1924.

Bronze Age · Bulgaria · found 1924

Treasure of Villena (Tesoro de Villena)

59 Bronze Age objects weighing nearly 10 kg, mostly gold bowls, bottles and bracelets, found near Villena in 1963. Most of the gold was stolen in 2026.

Bronze Age · Spain · found 1963

Eberswalde Hoard (Eberswalder Goldschatz)

81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kg, including eight decorated bowls, found in a lidded pot near Eberswalde in 1913; taken to Moscow in 1945 and still there.

Bronze Age · Germany · found 1913

Mooghaun North Hoard (Great Clare Find)

Over 150 Late Bronze Age gold objects, more than 5 kg, found by railway workers in County Clare in 1854; all but 29 were melted down.

Bronze Age · Ireland · found 1854

Dowris Hoard

More than 200 Late Bronze Age bronzes, including 26 horns, 48 rattle-like crotals, spears, axes and a cauldron, dug from a County Offaly bog in the 1820s.

Bronze Age · Ireland · found 1820

Kabul hoard

About 1,000 Greek, Persian and early local silver coins buried in Kabul around 380-350 BC and found in 1933: a key to the origins of Indian coinage.

Iron Age & classical · Afghanistan · found 1933

Rogozen Treasure

165 Thracian silver vessels, about 20 kg, found in a Bulgarian village garden in 1985-86; some are inscribed with the names of Odrysian kings.

Iron Age & classical · Bulgaria · found 1985

Panagyurishte Treasure

Nine solid gold Thracian drinking vessels, about 6.2 kg in all, dug up by brick workers near Panagyurishte, Bulgaria, in December 1949.

Iron Age & classical · Bulgaria · found 1949

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.

Iron Age & classical · Tajikistan · found 1877

Ipswich torcs (Ipswich Hoard)

Six heavy gold torcs of the 1st century BC, five turned up by a mechanical digger on a new Ipswich housing estate in 1968, the sixth in a garden nearby.

Iron Age & classical · England · found 1968

Snettisham Hoard

At least 14 Iron Age hoards of gold, silver and bronze torcs buried on one Norfolk hilltop around 60 BC, found between 1948 and the 1990s.

Iron Age & classical · England · found 1948

Broighter Hoard (Broighter Gold)

A tiny gold boat with oars and mast, a great decorated collar, a bowl and Roman-style chains: Iron Age gold ploughed up beside Lough Foyle in 1896.

Iron Age & classical · Northern Ireland · found 1896

Winchester Hoard

Two matching sets of near-pure gold jewellery, torcs, brooches and bracelets, made c. 75-25 BC with Mediterranean techniques; found near Winchester, 2000.

Iron Age & classical · England · found 2000

Grouville Hoard (Le Câtillon II)

69,347 Celtic coins plus gold torcs, fused into one clay block about 1.4 m long, found in Jersey in 2012: the largest Iron Age coin hoard known.

Iron Age & classical · Jersey · found 2012

Melsonby Hoard

Over 800 burnt and broken Iron Age objects, including 28 iron tyres from wagons and chariots and harness for 14 ponies, found in North Yorkshire in 2021.

Iron Age & classical · England · found 2021

Bredgar Hoard

34 Roman gold aurei from Julius Caesar to Claudius, buried in Kent around AD 43, the year of the invasion, and found by a house-builder in 1957.

Roman · England · found 1957

Hallaton Treasure

Over 5,000 Iron Age coins in 14 deposits, a silver-gilt Roman cavalry helmet and some 300 sacrificed pigs: a Leicestershire hilltop shrine of the AD 40s.

Iron Age & classical · England · found 2000

Gundestrup cauldron

A gilded silver cauldron of almost 9 kg, taken apart and laid in a small Danish bog in the Iron Age; peat cutters found it in Himmerland in 1891.

Iron Age & classical · Denmark · found 1891

Hildesheim Treasure

Over 70 pieces of Augustan Roman table silver, dug up by Prussian soldiers near Hildesheim in 1868: the largest Roman silver find beyond the frontier.

Roman · Germany · found 1868

Boscoreale Treasure

More than 100 pieces of Roman silver and about 1,000 gold coins, hidden in a villa's wine-press room when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and found in 1895.

Roman · Italy · found 1895

Trier Gold Hoard

Over 2,500 Roman gold aurei, 18.5 kg, torn from a cellar by a digger in Trier in 1993: the largest surviving hoard of Roman gold coins.

Roman · Germany · found 1993

Berthouville Treasure

About 90 silver offerings to Mercury, some 25 kg in all, ploughed up in a Normandy field in 1830: the richest Roman temple treasure known from Gaul.

Roman · France · found 1830

Neupotz Hoard

Over 1,000 objects and about 700 kg of Roman metalwork, booty lost in the Rhine around AD 260 and dredged up by a gravel works at Neupotz in 1967-1997.

Roman · Germany · found 1967

Cunetio Hoard

54,951 Roman radiate coins, buried around AD 274 in a jar and a lead box at Roman Cunetio, Wiltshire: the largest coin hoard from Roman Britain.

Roman · England · found 1978

Beau Street Hoard

17,577 Roman silver and base-silver coins in eight leather bags, buried under a building 150 m from the Roman Baths at Bath around AD 274.

Roman · England · found 2007

Frome Hoard

52,503 Roman coins, about 160 kg, poured into one pot near Frome, Somerset, around AD 290, including the largest group ever found of the usurper Carausius.

Roman · England · found 2010

Tomares Hoard

About 53,000 freshly minted Roman bronze coins, some 600 kg packed in 19 amphorae, hit by a digger in a park near Seville in April 2016.

Roman · Spain · found 2016

Shrewsbury Hoard

9,315 bronze Roman coins of Constantine's family in a storage jar near Shrewsbury, filled in two stages and sealed around AD 335 under a marker stone.

Roman · England · found 2009

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.

Roman · England · found 1975

Kaiseraugst Treasure

270 pieces and 58 kg of late Roman silver, buried in a Rhine fortress around AD 351 and scooped up by a digger in 1961, including the Achilles dish.

Roman · Switzerland · found 1961

Seaton Down Hoard

22,888 copper-alloy Roman coins buried in a bag near Seaton, Devon, around AD 348; one became the millionth Portable Antiquities Scheme find.

Roman · England · found 2013

Mildenhall Treasure

Thirty-four pieces of 4th-century Roman silver tableware ploughed up at West Row, Suffolk, in 1942, led by the 8.3 kg Great Dish of Oceanus and Bacchus.

Roman · England · found 1942

Esquiline Treasure

Late Roman silver of an aristocratic family, found on Rome's Esquiline Hill in 1793, with the Projecta wedding casket. Most is in the British Museum.

Roman · Italy · found 1793

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.

Migration period · Romania · found 1837

Szilágysomlyó Treasure

Found in two parts on one Transylvanian hill (1797, 1889): Roman gold medallions, a chain of 52 pendants and jewelled brooches of a Germanic royal house.

Migration period · Romania · found 1797

Thetford Hoard

81 late Roman objects from Thetford, Norfolk: 22 gold rings, a satyr belt buckle and 36 silver spoons and strainers, many dedicated to the god Faunus.

Roman · England · found 1979

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.

Roman · England · found 1992

Traprain Law Treasure

About 23 kg of late Roman silver plate, mostly cut and crushed into hacksilver, dug up in 1919 on an East Lothian hillfort beyond Hadrian's Wall.

Migration period · Scotland · found 1919

Carthage Treasure

Late Roman silver tableware and jewels of the Cresconii family, 31 objects found on the Byrsa hill at Carthage in the mid-19th century.

Roman · Tunisia · found 1850

Tureholm Treasure

About 12 kg of Migration Period gold found at Tuna, Södermanland, in 1774. Most was melted down for coin; a neck-ring and sword fittings survive.

Migration period · Sweden · found 1774

Patching Hoard

Gold solidi, silver coins, two gold rings and 54 scraps of hacksilver buried in Sussex after AD 461: the latest hoard of Roman coins ever found in Britain.

Migration period · England · found 1997

Gaulcross Hoard

Pictish silver found in a stone circle near Fordyce in 1838; only three pieces survived until a 2013 dig recovered 100 more, with Roman coins.

Migration period · Scotland · found 1838

Vindelev Hoard

About 800 g of 5th-6th century gold found by detectorists near Jelling, Denmark, in 2020: the largest known bracteate and the earliest naming of Odin.

Migration period · Denmark · found 2020

Norrie's Law Hoard

Pictish and late Roman silver dug from a Fife cairn around 1819: perhaps 12 kg found, most melted down; about 170 pieces (750 g) survive in Edinburgh.

Migration period · Scotland · found 1819

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.

Early medieval · England · found 1939

Lampsacus Treasure

Early Byzantine silver found by farmers at Lapseki on the Dardanelles in 1847: a stamped lampstand, a polycandelon and spoons inscribed with Virgil.

Early medieval · Turkey · found 1847

Crondall Hoard

About 100 small gold coins, most of them the earliest English coinage, found by a young man out shooting in Hampshire in 1828 and buried c. 640.

Early medieval · England · found 1828

Staffordshire Hoard

Almost 4,600 gold and silver fragments, mostly stripped from 7th-century swords, found near Lichfield in 2009: the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard.

Early medieval · England · found 2009

Pereshchepina Treasure

Over 800 gold and silver objects, some 70 kg of metal, found by boys near Poltava, Ukraine, in 1912; often linked to the 7th-century Bulgar khan Kubrat.

Early medieval · Ukraine · found 1912

First Cyprus Treasure

28 pieces of 6th-7th century Byzantine silver found near the Acheiropoietos monastery at Lambousa, Cyprus, in 1897, bought by the British Museum in 1899.

Early medieval · Cyprus · found 1897

Kaper Koraon Treasure

About 56 pieces of 6th-century church silver from a Syrian village church of St Sergius, found c. 1908-1910 and now scattered from Baltimore to Istanbul.

Early medieval · Syria · found 1908

St Ninian's Isle Treasure

28 Pictish silver objects, including 12 brooches and 8 bowls, found under a cross-marked slab in a Shetland chapel in 1958; buried around AD 800.

Early medieval · Scotland · found 1958

Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós

23 early medieval gold vessels, almost 10 kg, dug up near Sânnicolau Mare (now Romania) in 1799 and kept in Vienna ever since; probably Avar.

Early medieval · Romania · found 1799

Pentney Hoard

Six silver openwork disc brooches of the early 9th century, dug up by a gravedigger in a Norfolk churchyard in the late 1970s.

Viking age · England · found 1978

Sundveda Hoard

482 silver coins, mostly Islamic dirhams, found by archaeologists in an old grave near Sigtuna in 2008 and buried around 850-860.

Viking age · Sweden · found 2008

Trewhiddle Hoard

At least 114 silver pennies, a silver chalice and a unique silver scourge, found by Cornish tin-streamers in 1774 and buried in the 860s or 870s.

Viking age · England · found 1774

Beeston Tor Hoard

49 silver pennies, two Trewhiddle-style brooches and three rings, hidden in a Staffordshire cave around 875 and found by a clergyman caver in 1924.

Viking age · England · found 1924

Herefordshire Hoard

A Viking hoard of about 300 coins and gold jewellery buried c. 879 near Leominster, found in 2015 and sold illegally; only a tenth is recovered.

Viking age · England · found 2015

Watlington Hoard

About 200 silver coins, ingots and arm-rings buried c. 879 in Oxfordshire, with rare Two Emperors pennies showing Alfred and Ceolwulf II as partners.

Viking age · England · found 2015

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.

Viking age · Sweden · found 1999

Hoen Hoard

Norway's largest Viking gold find: about 2.5 kg of neck-rings, arm-rings, coin pendants and beads, dug from a bog at Hokksund in 1834.

Viking age · Norway · found 1834

Bedale Hoard

A gold-inlaid sword pommel, silver neck-rings and 29 ingots, buried in North Yorkshire around 900 and found in 2012. Now in the Yorkshire Museum.

Viking age · England · found 2012

Galloway Hoard

Over 100 objects, more than 5 kg of silver, gold, silk and crystal, buried c. AD 900 in Kirkcudbrightshire and found in 2014. Now in Edinburgh.

Viking age · Scotland · found 2014

Silverdale Hoard

201 pieces of Viking silver in a lead box, buried c. 900 near Silverdale, Lancashire, including a coin naming an unknown king, Airdeconut.

Viking age · England · found 2011

Huxley Hoard

21 flattened silver arm-rings and an ingot, about 1.5 kg of Hiberno-Norse silver buried c. 900-910 at Huxley, Cheshire, and found in 2004.

Viking age · England · found 2004

Cuerdale Hoard

About 8,600 pieces of Viking silver, some 40 kg of coins, ingots and chopped jewellery, buried c. 905-910 beside the River Ribble in Lancashire.

Viking age · England · found 1840

Harkirke Hoard

Viking-age silver pennies dug up in 1611 in a Catholic burial ground at Little Crosby, Lancashire, recorded in an engraving, then lost or melted.

Viking age · England · found 1611

Ardagh Hoard

The Ardagh Chalice, a plain bronze cup and four brooches, dug up by two boys in a Limerick ringfort in 1868; buried around AD 900.

Viking age · Ireland · found 1868

Vale of York Hoard

617 silver coins and dozens of ornaments packed into a Carolingian gilt cup, buried in North Yorkshire c. 928 and found by two detectorists in 2007.

Viking age · England · found 2007

Duesminde Hoard

About 50 Frankish silver-gilt belt and sword-belt fittings, 1.3 kg in all, found with a detector on Lolland in 2002; buried in the mid-10th century.

Viking age · Denmark · found 2002

Skaill Hoard

Over 100 pieces of Viking silver, about 8 kg, buried c. 950 at Skaill in Orkney and found in a rabbit hole in 1858: Scotland's largest Viking silver hoard.

Viking age · Scotland · found 1858

Vårby Hoard

A 10th-century silver-gilt jewellery hoard found by a boy gathering brushwood near Lake Mälaren in 1871, mixing Scandinavian, Rus' and Islamic ornaments.

Viking age · Sweden · found 1871

Terslev Hoard

6.6 kg of Viking silver dug up by two boys in a Zealand garden in 1911: 1,751 coins, silver cups and bowls, chains and fine filigree jewellery.

Viking age · Denmark · found 1911

Hiddensee Treasure

Sixteen pieces of late 10th-century Viking gold jewellery, about 600 g, washed out of a Baltic beach on Hiddensee by storm floods in 1872-74.

Viking age · Germany · found 1873

Schaprode Hoard (Harald Bluetooth hoard)

About 1.5 kg of Viking-age silver found on Rügen in 2018, with some 100 cross coins of Harald Bluetooth, buried in the 980s as the king fled.

Viking age · Germany · found 2018

Hornelund Hoard

Two gold filigree brooches and a gold arm-ring found by a farmhand near Varde, Jutland, in 1892: the finest Viking goldsmith's work known from Denmark.

Viking age · Denmark · found 1892

Lenborough Hoard

5,251 silver pennies of Æthelred the Unready and Cnut, wrapped in lead and buried around 1035 near Buckingham; found at a detecting rally in 2014.

Viking age · England · found 2014

Derrynaflan Hoard

A silver chalice, paten, stand, strainer and bronze basin from an Irish monastic island, found by detectorists in 1980; the lawsuit changed Irish law.

Viking age · Ireland · found 1980

Chew Valley Hoard

About 2,500 silver pennies of Harold II and William I buried in Somerset in 1067-68 and found by detectorists in 2019; bought for the nation for £4.3m.

Viking age · England · found 2019

Sandur Hoard

The only coin hoard found in the Faroe Islands: 98 silver pennies from six countries, buried at Sandur around 1070-1090 and found in 1863.

Viking age · Faroe Islands · found 1863

Græsli Hoard

2,253 silver coins, hacksilver and a gilt bird brooch found in a potato field in Tydal, Norway, in 1878: the key hoard for King Olav Kyrre's coinage.

Viking age · Norway · found 1878

Burge Hoard

Over 10 kg of silver ploughed up at Burge on Gotland in 1967: about 3,000 coins, Russian grivna ingots and cut silver, buried soon after 1143.

Medieval · Sweden · found 1967

Lewis chessmen

93 walrus-ivory gaming pieces, mostly 12th-century chessmen probably carved in Norway, that came to light on the Isle of Lewis in 1831.

Medieval · Scotland · found 1831

Tutbury Hoard

Perhaps 200,000 or more silver pennies dug from the River Dove in 1831, probably the war chest Thomas of Lancaster lost in his flight of March 1322.

Medieval · England · found 1831

Colmar Treasure

Rings, brooches and some 300 coins hidden in a wall on Colmar's Jewish street in 1348-49, when the town's Jews were killed in the Black Death persecutions.

Medieval · France · found 1863

Erfurt Treasure

Nearly 28 kg of silver coins, ingots, tableware and jewellery hidden by a Jewish household before the Erfurt massacre of March 1349, found in 1998.

Medieval · Germany · found 1998

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.

Medieval · Poland · found 1985

Dune Treasure

122 gold and silver bowls, spoons, chains and belt fittings hidden on a Gotland farm in the 1360s or 1370s, perhaps in 1361; found in 1881.

Medieval · Sweden · found 1881

Fishpool Hoard

1,237 gold coins, rings, love jewels and chains hidden in Sherwood Forest in 1463-64: the largest medieval coin hoard found in Britain.

Medieval · England · found 1966

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.

Early modern & later · England · found 1912

Lohe Hoard

Over 200 kg of silver: some 18,000 coins and 80 pieces of family plate packed in three copper kettles under a Stockholm cellar after 1741, found in 1937.

Early modern & later · Sweden · found 1937

Baltimore Gold Hoard

3,558 gold coins of the 1830s-1850s dug up by two teenage boys in a Baltimore cellar in 1934, then fought over in court for three years.

Early modern & later · United States · found 1934

Saddle Ridge Hoard

1,427 U.S. gold coins dated 1847-1894, face value $27,980, found in eight rusted cans in California in 2013: the largest buried gold find in the U.S.

Early modern & later · United States · found 2013

As a table

HoardPeriodCountryBuriedFoundContents
Priam's TreasureBronze AgeTurkeyc. 2500 BC (Troy II), roughly 2550-2250 BC1873around 8,000 items, most of them tiny gold beads
Nebra hoard (Nebra sky disc)Bronze AgeGermanyc. 1600 BC1999the disc and seven other bronzes (some fragmentary)
Valchitran TreasureBronze AgeBulgariaLate Bronze Age, roughly 15th to 12th century BC192413 objects
Treasure of Villena (Tesoro de Villena)Bronze AgeSpainc. 1300-1000 BC196359 objects (66 pieces)
Eberswalde Hoard (Eberswalder Goldschatz)Bronze AgeGermany10th-9th century BC191381 gold objects
Mooghaun North Hoard (Great Clare Find)Bronze AgeIrelandc. 1000-700 BC1854over 150 objects (29 survive)
Dowris HoardBronze AgeIrelandc. 900-600 BC1820more than 200 objects (about 190 traced today)
Kabul hoardIron Age & classicalAfghanistanc. 380-350 BC1933about 1,000 coins reported; 115 described in print
Rogozen TreasureIron Age & classicalBulgariamid-4th century BC1985165 vessels
Panagyurishte TreasureIron Age & classicalBulgariac. 300 BC (late 4th to early 3rd century BC)19499 vessels
Oxus TreasureIron Age & classicalTajikistanprobably 4th to early 2nd century BC (uncertain)1877about 180 surviving pieces of metalwork
Ipswich torcs (Ipswich Hoard)Iron Age & classicalEngland1st century BC19686 torcs
Snettisham HoardIron Age & classicalEnglandc. 100-50 BC, mostly around 60 BC1948more than 1,200 metal objects from the field in all
Broighter Hoard (Broighter Gold)Iron Age & classicalNorthern Ireland1st century BC18967 objects
Winchester HoardIron Age & classicalEnglandc. 75-25 BC200010 pieces (9 objects, one bracelet in two halves)
Grouville Hoard (Le Câtillon II)Iron Age & classicalJerseyc. 60-30 BC201269,347 coins plus jewellery and ingots
Melsonby HoardIron Age & classicalEngland1st century AD2021more than 800 objects
Bredgar HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 43195734 gold coins
Hallaton TreasureIron Age & classicalEnglandc. AD 40s-50s20005,294 coins (5,296 in some accounts)
Gundestrup cauldronIron Age & classicalDenmarkprobably 1st century BC to 2nd century AD (uncertain)189115 main pieces (base, 12 plates, 2 rim fragments) plus an iron fragment
Hildesheim TreasureRomanGermanyprobably 1st century AD1868over 70 pieces (published counts range from about 70 to 77)
Boscoreale TreasureRomanItalyAD 791895109 pieces of silver in the Louvre, plus jewellery and coins
Trier Gold HoardRomanGermanyc. 19619932,518 coins recovered (about 2,650 originally)
Berthouville TreasureRomanFrancelate 2nd or 3rd century AD1830about 90 objects (counts range from about 90 to 100)
Neupotz HoardRomanGermanyc. 26019671,062 objects
Cunetio HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 274197854,951 coins (partly estimated)
Beau Street HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 274 or soon after200717,577 coins
Frome HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 290201052,503 coins
Tomares HoardRomanSpainc. 310 or soon after2016about 53,000 coins
Shrewsbury HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 33520099,315 coins
Water Newton TreasureRomanEngland4th century AD197528 items (27 silver, 1 gold)
Kaiseraugst TreasureRomanSwitzerlandc. 350-353 (around 351)1961270 objects
Seaton Down HoardRomanEnglandc. AD 348-350201322,888 coins
Mildenhall TreasureRomanEngland4th century AD194234 catalogued pieces
Esquiline TreasureRomanItalylate 4th or early 5th century179357 objects in the British Museum (the original find was smaller, about 27 pieces)
Pietroasele TreasureMigration periodRomanialate 4th or first half of the 5th century AD183712 surviving objects (of 22 reported at discovery)
Szilágysomlyó TreasureMigration periodRomanialate 4th to first half of the 5th century AD179773 surviving gold and silver objects
Thetford HoardRomanEnglandlate 4th or 5th century AD197981 objects
Hoxne HoardRomanEnglandafter AD 407/81992about 15,000 items, including 14,865 coins and roughly 200 other objects
Traprain Law TreasureMigration periodScotland5th century AD1919several hundred pieces (over 250 to 327, depending on the count)
Carthage TreasureRomanTunisiaprobably 5th century185031 objects
Tureholm TreasureMigration periodSwedenMigration Period, 5th to mid-6th century AD1774unknown; four pieces survive
Patching HoardMigration periodEnglandafter AD 4611997about 100 items: 50 coins, 2 rings and 54 pieces of scrap silver
Gaulcross HoardMigration periodScotland5th to 6th century AD (debated)18383 surviving 1838 objects plus 100 items recovered in 2013
Vindelev HoardMigration periodDenmarkearly to mid-6th century AD202023 finds (some are fragments of the same object)
Norrie's Law HoardMigration periodScotland6th century AD (debated)1819about 170 surviving pieces
Sutton Hoo ship burialEarly medievalEnglandc. 610-6351939hundreds of objects and fragments; no single agreed count
Lampsacus TreasureEarly medievalTurkeylate 6th or 7th century1847about 28 surviving pieces in several museums
Crondall HoardEarly medievalEnglandc. 635-6501828about 100 coins and blanks, plus jewellery
Staffordshire HoardEarly medievalEnglandc. 650-6752009almost 4,600 items and fragments
Pereshchepina TreasureEarly medievalUkrainec. 650-6801912more than 800 objects
First Cyprus TreasureEarly medievalCyprusafter 641, probably mid-7th century189728 objects
Kaper Koraon TreasureEarly medievalSyria7th or 8th century1908about 56 objects
St Ninian's Isle TreasureEarly medievalScotlandc. 750-825, probably about 800195828 silver objects, plus a porpoise jawbone
Treasure of NagyszentmiklósEarly medievalRomaniaprobably 8th or early 9th century (disputed)179923 vessels
Pentney HoardViking ageEnglandprobably mid-9th century19786 disc brooches
Sundveda HoardViking ageSwedenc. 850-860 or slightly later2008482 coins (108 whole, 374 fragments)
Trewhiddle HoardViking ageEnglandc. 868, perhaps a few years later1774at least 114 coins and a group of metalwork
Beeston Tor HoardViking ageEnglandc. 875192449 coins, 2 brooches, 3 rings and fragments
Herefordshire HoardViking ageEnglandc. 8792015about 300 coins originally, plus jewellery and ingots; about 35 pieces recovered
Watlington HoardViking ageEnglandc. 879-8802015about 224 pieces (203 coins and 21 other items)
Spillings HoardViking ageSwedenafter c. 870199914,295 coins, about 486 arm-rings, and hundreds of other pieces
Hoen HoardViking ageNorwayc. 875-9001834about 207 pieces (published counts differ)
Bedale HoardViking ageEnglandlate 9th or early 10th century201247-48 items
Galloway HoardViking ageScotlandc. AD 9002014more than 100 objects
Silverdale HoardViking ageEnglandc. 9002011201 silver items
Huxley HoardViking ageEnglandc. 900-910200422 silver items (plus 39 lead fragments)
Cuerdale HoardViking ageEnglandc. 905-9101840about 8,600 items
Harkirke HoardViking ageEnglandc. 910-9151611about 80 coins by the finder's account; later records say up to 300
Ardagh HoardViking ageIrelandc. 900 or a little later18686 objects
Vale of York HoardViking ageEnglandc. 9282007617 coins and about 65-69 other items
Duesminde HoardViking ageDenmarkmid-10th century or later2002about 50 pieces
Skaill HoardViking ageScotlandc. 950 (some accounts 950-970)1858over 100 items
Vårby HoardViking ageSweden10th century1871about 90 pieces
Terslev HoardViking ageDenmarkmid to late 10th century19111,751 coins plus about 80 numbered groups of objects
Hiddensee TreasureViking ageGermanylate 10th century187316 pieces
Schaprode Hoard (Harald Bluetooth hoard)Viking ageGermanylate 980s2018over 600 silver items reported in 2018; over 1,920 pieces after full processing
Hornelund HoardViking ageDenmarklate 10th or early 11th century18923 objects (1892 find)
Lenborough HoardViking ageEnglandc. 103520145,251 whole coins and one cut half
Derrynaflan HoardViking ageIrelandprobably 10th to 12th century19805 liturgical objects
Chew Valley HoardViking ageEnglandc. 1067-6820192,584 coins (first reported as 2,528)
Sandur HoardViking ageFaroe Islandsc. 1070-1090186398 coins
Græsli HoardViking ageNorwayafter c. 108018782,253 coins plus hacksilver and a brooch
Burge HoardMedievalSwedensoon after 11431967about 3,000 coins plus bars, ingots and scrap silver
Lewis chessmenMedievalScotlandafter c. 1150; date of burial unknown183193 objects
Tutbury HoardMedievalEnglandprobably March 13221831estimated 100,000 to 360,000 coins (no count was ever made)
Colmar TreasureMedievalFrancec. 1348-491863about 50 objects and about 300 coins (some pieces were sold before recording)
Erfurt TreasureMedievalGermany1349 (before the massacre of 21 March)19983,141 coins, 14 ingots and over 700 other objects
Środa TreasureMedievalPolandc. 1348-501985about 7,730 coins and over a dozen jewels (as inventoried; some pieces still missing)
Dune TreasureMedievalSweden1360s or 1370s (perhaps 1361)1881122 objects
Fishpool HoardMedievalEnglandwinter 1463 to summer 146419661,237 coins plus 10 pieces of jewellery and chain
Cheapside HoardEarly modern & laterEnglandc. 1640 (between 1640 and 1666)1912about 400 to 500 items (accounts differ)
Lohe HoardEarly modern & laterSweden1741 or later, probably the early 1740s1937about 18,217 coins, about 80 silver objects and a gold necklace
Baltimore Gold HoardEarly modern & laterUnited Statesafter the mid-1850s19343,558 gold coins (first find)
Saddle Ridge HoardEarly modern & laterUnited States1894 or later20131,427 gold coins