Search results for 'cuerdale hoard'

ISBN: 9780861591855
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 185
Written by the leading authority on the subject, the catalogue focuses on the entire non-numismatic contents of the Cuerdale hoard (discovered in 1840), together with all the other hoards and single-finds of gold and silver artefacts (ornaments... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861590452
Published by : British Museum Press
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ISBN: 9781407308661
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
One private numismatic collection in Zagreb, Croatia was found to contain a group of silver items, which has all the characteristics of an authentic Roman hoard, including the usual scarcity of information about the circumstances of discovery a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714123349
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
On 9 April 2010, Dave Crisp found 21 coins while metal detecting on farmland near Frome. Two days later he returned to the site (the precise location and identity of the landowner are being kept secret), and discovered a huge pot filled with mo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714118185
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
Discovered in 2007 and acquired by the British Museum and York Museums Trust, the Vale of York hoard was buried in the late 920s in the reign of the West Saxon king Athelstan, in what is now North Yorkshire. This was a crucial time in the unifi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714123288
Published by : British Museum Press
On 5 July 2009, a metal-detector user started to unearth some gold objects in a Staffordshire field. Thus began the discovery of the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Consisting of over 1600 items - including fittings from the hilts... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515071536
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
The accidental discovery of the hoard of metal weapons, bangles, and vessels in the desert plain called Selme in August of 1979 evoked a complicated chain of events which led to the final publication. The Department of Antiquities and foreign expe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752414720
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
In the mid-1980s two metal detectorists unearthed a huge hoard of bronze artefacts in a field near Salisbury, but over the years rumour of it reached the archaeological world. This book is a detective story, telling how the rumours were gradual... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842170175
Published by : Oxbow Books
This report details the results of excavations within an early Bronze Age barrow cemetery in 1994. The barrow provided a rare opportunity for examining in detail Bronze Age funerary practices and associated ritual activity in a lowland context ... .... Learn More