Filled with precious objects, often including coins which are especially useful for their dates, hoards are unusual and exciting archaeological finds. They are often tightly packed in sturdy containers, suggesting that their owners buried them for safekeeping, but were prevented from returning to retrieve them. For this reason many hoards are interpreted as an indication of unrest or political change, but some may have been buried for other reasons such as ritual purposes.
Cuerdale hoard
An enormous Viking hoard buried in Lancashire around AD 905.
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A page about the Cuerdale hoard written for children.
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Bronze Age and Iron Age objects, possibly buried as offerings to the gods.
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Roman military metalwork.
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A page about the Ribchester hoard, written for children.
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Roman jewellery hoard containing silver, gold, gems, jewellery and jewellery working tools.
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A page about the Snettisham hoard, written for children.
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Coins and jewellery buried around 1463, in the first decade of the Wars of the Roses.
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A page about the Fishpool hoard, written for children.
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Coins that were probably buried during the English Civil War. Image © 2003 National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
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American coins buried in a London garden in 1940.
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