List of Roman hoards in Great Britain

The list of Roman 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 period of Romano-British culture when 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. 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.

Most Roman hoards are composed largely or entirely of coins, and are relatively common in Britain, with over 1,200 known examples. 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.

List of hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Agden Hoard		late 3rd century	Woolstencroft Farm, Agden Cheshire	1957	Grosvenor Museum, Chester	About 2,500 antoniniani and the lower half of jar
Aldbury Hoard		late 3rd century	near Aldbury Hertfordshire	1870		116 brass coins fragments of brass plate half a brass ring silver wire ring 2 brooches
Alton Barnes Hoard		late 3rd century	Alton Barnes Wiltshire	2005	Wiltshire Museum, Devizes	3,854 silver and bronze Roman coins
Backworth Hoard		late 2nd century	Backworth Tyne and Wear	1811	British Museum, London	Silver skillet covered by silver mirror 5 gold rings 1 silver serpent ring 2 gold chains with wheel and crescent pendants 2 silver-gilt brooches 1 gold bracelet 3 silver spoons 280 denarii 2 brass coins 1 silver dish
Baldock Hoard		3rd to 4th century	near Baldock Hertfordshire	2002	British Museum, London	26 gold and silver objects including gold jewellery, 7 gold votive plaques, 12 silver votive plaques, two silver model arms, and a silver figurine
Barkway Hoard		early 3rd century	near Barkway Hertfordshire	1743	British Museum, London	5 silver and bronze objects, including one silver-gilt votive plaque dedicated to Mars, and two silver votive plaques dedicated to Vulcan
Beau Street Hoard		second half of 3rd century	Bath Somerset	2008	Roman Baths Museum , Bath	30,000 silver Roman coins
Beckfoot Hoard		Unknown	Beckfoot, near Silloth Cumbria	2010		308 Roman coins in a pot
Beech Bottom Dyke Hoard		early 2nd century	Beech Bottom Dyke, St Albans Hertfordshire	1932	Dispersed	About 100 silver denarii
Bishopswood Hoard		mid-4th century	Bishopswood, near Walford, Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire	1895	Hereford Museum and Art Gallery	17,548 coins
Boothstown Hoard		late 3rd century	Boothstown Greater Manchester	1947	British Museum, London Manchester Museum	550 bronze coins dated between 259 and 278 AD found in two pottery urns
Braithwell Hoard		late 3rd century	Braithwell South Yorkshire	2002	British Museum (4) Doncaster Museum (1)	1,331 base silver radiates 1 base metal denarius 13 sherds of greyware jar
Breamore hoards		late 3rd century	Breamore Hampshire	1998 (B)	Returned to finder (B)	Hoard A: 1,782 base silver radiates Hoard B:398 base silver radiates and pot
Bredon Hill Hoard		mid-4th century	Bredon Hill Worcestershire	2011	Worcestershire County Museum, Hartlebury	3,784 debased silver coins in a clay pot
Canterbury Treasure	Items from the Canterbury Treasure on display in the local Roman Museum	early 5th century	Canterbury Kent	1962	Roman Museum, Canterbury	12 silver spoons, 3 ingots, 1 tooth pick and jewellery
Capheaton Treasure	Silver vessel handle from the Capheaton Treasure	2nd or 3rd century	Capheaton Northumberland	1747	British Museum, London	5 silver vessel handles, and 1 fragment of a silver trulla base
Chaddesley Corbett Hoard		early 4th century	Chaddesley Corbett Worcestershire	1999 and 2003	Worcestershire County Museum, Hartlebury Castle	434 base silver nummi 38 sherds of pottery
Chalgrove hoards	The Chalgrove II hoard	late 3rd century	Chalgrove Oxfordshire	1989 (I) 2003 (II)	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2003)	I: 4,145 coins ( II: 4,957 base silver coins
Chells Manor Hoard		late 3rd century	Chells Manor Estate, Stevenage Hertfordshire	1986		2,579 coins
Chorleywood Hoard		mid-4th century	Chorleywood Hertfordshire	1977	British Museum (244) Verulamium Museum, St Albans (446)	4,358 coins
Clapton Hoard		late 3rd century	Clapton in Gordano	1922-1924	Museum of Somerset, Taunton (59) and Nicholson Museum, Sydney, Australia (over 3400)	3500 Roman bronze coins, (mainly Gallienus to Claudius II)
Corbridge Hoard (1964)		mid-2nd century	Corbridge Northumberland	1964	Corbridge Roman Site Museum Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	various finished and unfinished iron products, including pieces of armour, a sword scabbard, javelinheads, spearheads, arrowheads, artillery bolts, and various knives, nails, spikes and cramps
Corbridge Treasure		4th century	Corbridge Northumberland	1731–1760	British Museum, London	5 pieces of silverware, including a lanx (serving platter), a bowl and a vase
Cunetio Hoard		late 3rd century	Cunetio Roman town, Mildenhall Wiltshire	1978	British Museum, London	54,951 coins
Curridge Hoard		early 3rd century	Curridge Berkshire	1998–1999	West Berkshire Heritage	425 bronze sestertius or dupondii/asses
Didcot Hoard		late 2nd century	Didcot Oxfordshire	1995	British Museum, London	126 gold coins
Edge Hill Hoard (also known as the South Warwickshire Roman Hoard)		mid-1st century	Edge Hill Warwickshire	2008	Market Hall Museum, Warwick	1,146 silver denarii in a small pot, coins dating between 190 BC and AD 63–64
Ethy Hoard		late 3rd century	Ethy, near Lerryn Cornwall	2000	Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro	1,095 base silver radiates coarseware jar
Eye Hoard		late 4th century	Near Eye, Suffolk Suffolk	1781		600 gold coins
Felmingham Hall Hoard		2nd to 3rd centuries	near Felmingham Norfolk	1845	British Museum, London	Romano-British temple treasure consisting of a pottery bowl, a buckle, a rattle, heads of Jupiter and Minerva, a mask of Sol with sun rays, a lar or household god, a wheel associated with the Celtic gpd Taranis, two statuettes of birds
Frampton Hoard		late 3rd century	Frampton Dorset	1998	Returned to finder	511 base silver radiates and pot
Frome Hoard	Pile of coins from the Frome Hoard	early 4th century	Near Frome Somerset	2010	Museum of Somerset, Taunton	52,503 coins (5 silver, the rest debased silver and bronze)
Grassmoor Hoard		4th century	Grassmoor Derbyshire	2001	Chesterfield Museum and British Museum, London	1,421 silver coins
Hickleton Hoard		late 2nd century	Hickleton South Yorkshire	2001	Doncaster Museum	350 silver coins 36 copper-alloy coins
High Green Hoard		late 3rd century	High Green South Yorkshire	2001		738 base silver radiates
High Weald Hoard		3rd century	30 miles north of Brighton West Sussex	2006	Brighton Museum & Art Gallery	Nearly 3,000 silver coins
Hockwold Hoard (1962)	Silver cups from the Hockwold Hoard	late 1st century	Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk	1962	British Museum, London	4 silver cups 4 silver handles 1 silver pedestal
Hockwold Hoard (1999)		mid-4th century	Hockwold cum Wilton Norfolk	1999	British Museum, London	816 copper alloy coins
Howe Hoard		late 1st century	Howe Norfolk	1981–2002	British Museum, London	15 gold aurei 131 silver denarii
Hoxne Hoard	Reconstruction of the chest containing the Hoxne Hoard	early 5th century	Hoxne Suffolk	1992	British Museum, London	14,865 coins (569 gold, 14,272 silver, 24 bronze) 29 items of gold jewellery 98 silver spoons and ladles 1 silver tigress 4 silver bowls 1 small dish 1 silver beaker 1 silver vase or juglet 4 pepper pots
Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks Hoard		late 3rd century	Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks, Colchester Essex	2011	Colchester Museum	Two pots, one empty and one containing 1,247 coins
Itteringham Hoard		late 2nd century	Itteringham Norfolk	2000	British Museum, London	3 silver finger rings 2 copper-alloy cosmetic sets 1 bronze key 62 silver denarii 42 copper-alloy coins pot fragments
Kingston Deverill Hoard	The Kingston Deverill vessels during excavation	late 1st century	Kingston Deverill Wiltshire	2005	Salisbury Museum	3 bronze trullei or patera (shallow handled bowls) 2 bronze wine strainers
Kirton in Lindsey hoards		late 3rd century	Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire	1999 (1) 2001, 2004 (2)	6 coins at British Museum, London	Hoard 1: 875 base silver radiates Hoard 2: 111 base silver radiates (2001); 85 base silver radiates (2004)
Langley with Hardley Hoard		late 3rd century	Langley with Hardley Norfolk	1997, 1999, 2001, 2004	Returned to finder	2,044 base silver radiates
Langtoft hoards		early 4th century	Langtoft East Yorkshire	2000	Yorkshire Museum, York British Museum, London	Hoard A: 976 base silver coins and 21 sherds of a jar Hoard B: 924 base silver nummi and 9 sherds of a pot
Lightwood Hoard		late 3rd century	Lightwood Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire	1960	Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent	2,461 coins and two silver bracelets in an earthenware pot
Little Brickhill hoards (1962–1964)		4th century	Little Brickhill, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire	1962–1964	Bletchley Archaeological Society, Bletchley	1962 251 loose coins About 400 corroded mass of coins 1964 4th-century pottery and sherds 13th-century jug (part) 11th to 12th-century sherds 2nd-century Samian ware fragments glass and jet beads 43 coins
Little Brickhill hoards (1967 & 1987)		late 2nd century	Little Brickhill, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire	1967 1987	British Museum, London Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylebury	1967 296 silver denarii hearth tools pottery bronze brooch and terret ring 3rd- to 4th-century sherds 1987 627 silver denarii
Little Orme Hoard (1981)		late 3rd or early 4th century	Little Orme, near Llandudno Conwy	1981	National Museum Cardiff	5 ox-head bucket-mounts 1 razor handle 1 knife or chisel handle 2 brooches 1 harness ring 68 coins
Llanvaches Hoard		mid-2nd century	Llanvaches Monmouthshire	2006	National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon	599 silver denarii
M1 Motorway Hoard		late 3rd century	M1 motorway Leicestershire (see note)	1980 (see note)		207 silver denarii 228 base-silver radiates 2 grey ware pottery fragments
Maundown Hoard		late 3rd century	Maundown, near Wiveliscombe Somerset	2006	Museum of Somerset, Taunton	2,118 bronze coins
Mildenhall Treasure	The great dish from the Mildenhall Treasure	mid-4th century	Mildenhall Suffolk	1942	British Museum, London	34 items of silver tableware
Monknash Hoard		mid-2nd century	Monknash South Glamorgan	2000	National Museum Wales, Cardiff	103 silver denarii grey ware pot
Nether Compton Hoard		mid-4th century	Nether Compton Dorset	1989		22,670 coins
Newport Pagnell Hoard		mid-4th century	near Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire	2006		More than 1,400 bronze coins pottery
Osgodby Hoard		2nd century	Osgodby Lincolnshire	1999	British Museum, London	44 silver denarii finger ring bronze brooch coarseware pottery vessel
Patching Hoard		mid-5th century	Patching West Sussex	1997	Worthing Museum and Art Gallery	13 Roman and 10 Visigothic gold solidi 21 Roman, 3 Visigothic, and 3 unidentified silver coins 2 gold rings 54 pieces of scrap silver, including a scabbard fitting
Pot Shaft Hoard		4th century	Alderley Edge Cheshire	1995	Manchester Museum	564 Roman coins dating from AD 317–336, mainly Constantine and house of Constantine pieces
Prestwood hoards		early 3rd to early 4th century	Prestwood Buckinghamshire	1999 and 2005	Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury	Hoard A: 112 silver denarii and 1 radiate Hoard B: 735 base silver nummi and pot fragment
Reading Hoard		Unknown	The Ridgeway School, Reading Berkshire	2015	Reading Museum, Reading	About 300 coins in a pottery vessel
Rhayader Treasure		2nd to 3rd century	Rhayader Powys	1899	British Museum, London	1 gold ring with onyx stone; 11 pieces of gold necklet with 8 stones, 1 piece of scroll and a small embossed section; 4 pieces of gold armlet
Ribchester Hoard		late 1st to early 2nd century	Ribchester Lancashire	1796	British Museum, London	bronze cavalry helmet, a number of patera, pieces of a vase, a bust of Minerva, fragments of two basins, and several plates.
Rogiet Hoard		late 3rd century	Rogiet Monmouthshire	1998	National Museum of Wales, Cardiff	3,778 silver coins
Seaton Down Hoard		early 4th century	Seaton Down Devon	2013		22,000 copper alloy coins
Shapwick hoards (1936–1938)		early 4th to mid-5th century	Shapwick Somerset	1936–1938	Museum of Somerset, Taunton British Museum, London	Pewter cup, saucer, platter, jug, canister, bowl with pedestal pottery beaker 245 silver siliquae 1,170 bronze coins bronze cased wooden stave tankard bronze bowl
Shapwick Hoard (1978)		4th century	Shapwick Somerset	1978	Glastonbury Museum	More than 1,000 copper coins pewter vessel
Shapwick Hoard (1998)		mid-3rd century	Shapwick Somerset	1998	Somerset County Museum, Taunton	9,262 coins
Shillington Hoard		late 1st century	Shillington Bedfordshire	1998–1999	Wardown Park Museum, Luton	Hoard A: 127 gold aurei Hoard B: 18 silver denarii
Shiptonthorpe Hoard		early 4th century	Shiptonthorpe East Yorkshire	2000	Hull and East Riding Museum, Kingston upon Hull	503 base silver coins pot fragments
Shoreham Hoard		late 3rd century	Shoreham-by-Sea West Sussex	1999		4,105 base silver denarii and radiates pottery vessel
Shrewsbury Hoard	The Shrewsbury Hoard	mid-4th century	near Shrewsbury Shropshire	2009	Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery	9,315 bronze coins
Silchester Hoard (1894)	Part of the Silchester Hoard (1894) on display at Reading Museum	late 2nd century	Silchester Hampshire	1894	Reading Museum British Museum, London	258 silver denarii
Silchester Hoard (1985–1987)		early 5th century	Silchester Hampshire	1985–1987	Reading Museum	About 39 silver and bronze coins 3 gold rings
Snettisham Jeweller's Hoard	Selection of items from the Snettisham Jeweller's Hoard	mid-2nd century	Snettisham Norfolk	1985	British Museum, London	83 silver coins, 27 bronze coins, and quantities of gems, jewellery and scrap metal
Snodland Hoard	The Snodland Hoard in situ during excavation	mid-4th century	Snodland Kent	2006		More than 3,600 bronze coins
St Albans Hoard		late 4th century	St Albans Hertfordshire	2012	Verulamium Museum, St Albans	159 gold solidi
Stanchester Hoard		early 5th century	Wilcot, Vale of Pewsey Wiltshire	2000	Wiltshire Museum, Devizes	1,166 coins (3 gold, 1,162 silver, 1 bronze)
Stogursey Hoard (1999)		late 3rd century	Stogursey Somerset	1999 and 2002	3 coins at British Museum some others at Somerset	1,097 base silver radiates pottery vessel remains 50 copper alloy coins
Stoke-on-Trent Hoard A		late 2nd century	Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire	2012	Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley	258 silver denarii dating between 31 BC and AD 176
Stony Stratford Hoard		3rd century	Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire	1789	British Museum, London	2 chain headresses, 3 fibulae, various fragments of silver plaques with figures of, or inscriptions to, Roman gods, in an urn
Sully Hoard (1899)		late 3rd century	Sully, Vale of Glamorgan South Glamorgan	1899	British Museum, London	322 coins (7 gold, some silver, and rest bronze) 4 gold rings
Sully Hoard (2008)		mid-4th century	Sully, Vale of Glamorgan South Glamorgan	2008	National Museum Wales	2,366 bronze coins in one pot 3,547 bronze coins in another pot
Thetford Hoard		mid-4th century	near Thetford Norfolk	1979	British Museum, London	33 silver spoons 22 gold finger rings 4 pendants several necklaces a gold buckle
Thornbury Hoard	Coins from the Thornbury Hoard	mid-4th century	Thornbury Gloucestershire	2004	Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery	11,460 coins
Tinwell Hoard		late 3rd century	Tinwell Rutland	1999	Rutland County Museum, Oakham	2,831 base-silver coins
Traprain Treasure		early 5th century	Traprain Law, near Haddington East Lothian	1919	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	53 pounds of sliced up silver tableware some Christian items a Roman officer's uniform 4 coins
Upchurch Hoard	Pot and selection of coins from the Upchurch Hoard	early 4th century	Upchurch Kent	1950	Private collection	37 bronze coins
Walton (Milton Keynes) Hoard		early 4th century	Walton, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire	1987		97 bronze coins
Water Newton Treasure		4th century	Water Newton Cambridgeshire	1975	British Museum, London	27 silver items, including jugs, hanging-bowls, bowls and votive plaques 1 gold votive plaque
Welbourn Hoard		mid-4th century	Welbourn Lincolnshire	1998	8 coins at British Museum, London	436 base silver nummi Shelly Ware container
West Bagborough Hoard		mid-4th century	West Bagborough Somerset	2001	Somerset County Museum, Taunton	669 Roman coins and 64 pieces of hacksilver
Westhall Hoard		mid-2nd century	Westhall Suffolk	1855	British Museum, London Norwich Castle Museum	9 bronze terrets and some Roman coins in a bronze bowl
Weston Underwood Hoard		1st and 2nd century	Weston Underwood, Milton Keynes (borough) Buckinghamshire	1858	Buckinghamshire County Museum	166 silver denarii 10 other coins earthenware vessel Samian bowl various sherds and other pottery
Wickham Market Hoard (1984)		late 3rd century	Wickham Market Suffolk	1984		Pot containing 1,587 coins
Yorkley Hoard		mid-4th century	Yorkley Gloucestershire	2012	Dean Heritage Centre, Gloucestershire	500 bronze coins, probably originally contained in a cloth bag

See also

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