14 published discoveries in the Hoards category from England — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
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In 1975 a ploughed field at Water Newton, on the site of a Roman town near Peterborough, gave up 28 silver and gold objects marked with Christian symbols, the earliest known Christian church silver from anywhere in the Roman Empire.
In 1979 a detectorist dug up a late Roman hoard of gold jewellery and silver spoons on a Thetford building site, and didn't report it. By the time archaeologists heard, the findspot had been built over.
In 1966 a mechanical digger on a building site at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire turned up 1,237 gold coins and pieces of jewellery, hidden during the Wars of the Roses. It is the largest hoard of medieval coins ever found in Britain.
In November 2013 a detectorist in east Devon found a hoard of 22,888 Roman coins, reported it at once and helped archaeologists dig it out. Its first coin became the one-millionth find recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
In 2015 a detectorist near Watlington in Oxfordshire found a Viking hoard of about 200 silver coins, ingots and jewellery. Its rare Two Emperors pennies show Alfred the Great sharing power with a Mercian king history almost forgot.
In 1942 a ploughman at West Row in Suffolk struck a hoard of 34 pieces of late Roman silver tableware. His employer took it home and kept quiet about it for four years before the world found out.
In 1840 workmen repairing a riverbank near Preston dug into a lead chest packed with about 40 kilograms of Viking silver: thousands of coins and more than a thousand ingots, arm-rings and pieces of hacksilver.
Over more than 40 years, ploughing and metal detecting at Ken Hill near Snettisham in Norfolk turned up at least 14 hoards of Iron Age gold and silver, among them the Great Torc, a masterpiece of Celtic art.
