The list of Iron Age 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 the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD. 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. Hoards of Celtic coins dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Britain are also included here.
| Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alton Hoard | Hampshire | 1996 | British Museum, London | 50 gold staters of Commios, Tincomarus and Epillus (Hoard A) 206 gold staters of Tincomarus and Verica (Hoard B) 1 Roman gold ring 1 Roman gold bracelet[1] [2] | ||
| Beaminster Hoard | Dorset | 2003 | Dorset Museum, Dorchester | 160 silver staters | ||
| Beverley Hoard | East Yorkshire | 1999–2007 | Hull Museums Collections British Museum, London | 110 gold staters[3] | ||
| Blythburgh Hoard | Suffolk | 2019 | 19 gold staters and quarter staters of Addedomaros, king of the Trinovantes, dating to 45–25 BC[4] | |||
| Cheriton Hoard | Hampshire | 1984 | British Museum, London Winchester City Museum | 50 gold staters and quarter staters[5] | ||
| Chute Forest Hoard | Wiltshire | 1927 | British Museum, London | 36 gold staters[6] | ||
| Clacton Hoard | Essex | 1898 | British Museum, London | 76 gold staters[7] | ||
| Climping Hoard | West Sussex | 2000 | British Museum, London | 18 gold staters | ||
| Dovedale Hoard | Derbyshire | 2014 | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery | 26 gold and silver coins, including three pre-conquest Roman coins, and 20 Late Iron Age gold and silver coins belonging to the Corieltauvi tribe[8] | ||
| Essendon Hoard | Hertfordshire | 1992 | British Museum, London | 257 gold coins, 7 swords, 4 spearheads, a dagger and a decorated sheet of bronze that may have faced a wooden shield, various ingots and segments of a gold torc[9] | ||
| Farmborough Hoard | Somerset | 1984 | British Museum, London | 61 gold staters[10] | ||
| Field Baulk Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 1982 | British Museum, London | 872 silver coins minted by the Iceni tribe, in a round pot[11] | ||
| Great Leighs Hoard | Essex | 1998–1999 | Chelmsford Museum | 40 gold staters | ||
| Hallaton Treasure | Leicestershire | 2000 | Harborough Museum | 5,000 silver and gold coins a silver gilt Roman parade helmet jewellery[12] | ||
| Honingham Hoard | Norfolk | 1954 | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 341 Iceni silver coins[13] | ||
| Ipswich Hoard | Suffolk | 1968–1969 | British Museum, London | 6 gold twisted torcs[14] | ||
| Kimbolton Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 2010 | 67 gold staters and one gold quarter-stater[15] | |||
| Langstone Hoard | Newport | 2007 | 2 bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer[16] | |||
| Leekfrith torcs | Staffordshire | 2016 | 4 gold torcs[17] | |||
| Little Horwood Hoard | Buckinghamshire | 2006–2007 | Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury | 75 staters found over an 11-month period which are said to be part of the Whaddon Chase Hoard[18] | ||
| Llangoed Hoard | Anglesey | 2021–2022 | Oriel Ynys Môn | Fifteen gold staters of the Corieltauvi tribe[19] | ||
| Llyn Cerrig Bach Hoard | Anglesey | 1942 | National Museum Cardiff | votive objects deposited over a period of several hundred years, comprising over 150 items of bronze and iron, including 7 swords, 6 spearheads, fragments of a shield, part of a bronze trumpet, 2 gang chains, fragments of iron wagon tyres and horse gear, blacksmith's tools, fragments of two cauldrons, and iron bars[20] | ||
| Llyn Fawr Hoard | Glamorgan | 1909–1913 | National Museum Cardiff | bronze cauldron, a number of chisels, sickles and socketed axes, a sword, a spearhead, a razor, and horse harness equipment[21] | ||
| Lochar Moss Hoard | Dumfries and Galloway | 1840s | British Museum, London | brass torc and bronze bowl[22] | ||
| North Foreland Hoard | Kent | 1999 | Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington-on-Sea | 63 potin (a bronze alloy with high tin content) coins | ||
| Peatling Magna Hoard | Leicestershire | 2012 | Harborough Museum | 10 gold staters minted in northern France or the Low Countries[23] | ||
| Polden Hill Hoard | Somerset | 1800 | British Museum, London | about 90 metal artefacts including horse gear and trappings, segments of 3 shields, 6 brooches, 3 bracelets, parts of 2 torcs[24] | ||
| Riseholme Hoard | Lincolnshire | 2017 | The Collection, Lincoln Museum | 40 gold staters, 231 silver units, and 11 silver half units attributed to the Corieltauvi tribe.[25] | ||
| Salisbury Hoard | Wiltshire | 1988 | British Museum, London | over 600 objects, mostly miniature bronze versions of shields, tools, daggers and spearheads[26] | ||
| Scole Hoard | Norfolk | 1982–1983 | 202 Iceni silver coins and 87 Roman coins[27] | |||
| Sedgeford Hoard | Norfolk | 2003 | King's Lynn Museum | 39 Gallo-Belgic gold staters, concealed inside a cowbone[28] | ||
| Shalfleet Hoard | Isle of Wight | 2009 | Sold at Bonhams, 2011.[29] | four large bowl-shaped silver ingots, six small silver fragments and one gold British B (or "Chute") stater of Late Iron Age date.[30] | ||
| Silsden Hoard | West Yorkshire | 1998 | Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley | 27 gold coins and a finger ring | ||
| Snettisham Hoard | Norfolk | 1948–1973 | British Museum, London Norwich Castle Museum | over 150 gold torc fragments (over 70 of which form complete torcs), and various objects made of metal and jet[31] | ||
| Southend Hoard | Essex | 1986 | British Museum, London | pottery sherds and 33 gold staters[32] | ||
| South Norfolk Hoard | 2012–2013 | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 44 'Norfolk Wolf' debased gold staters[33] [34] | |||
| South Wight Hoard | Isle of Wight | 2004 | British Museum, London | 18 gold staters, 138 silver staters, 1 thin silver coin, 7 copper alloy coins of the Roman period, 2 bowl shaped silver ingots, 1 bowl shaped copper alloy ingot, 5 sherds of Iron Age pottery[35] [36] | ||
| Stanwick Hoard | North Yorkshire | 1843 | British Museum, London | about 180 metal artefacts including four sets of horse harnesses for chariots and a bronze horse head[37] | ||
| Stirling Hoard | Stirlingshire | 2009 | National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | 4 gold torcs[38] | ||
| Stonea Hoard | Cambridgeshire | 1983 | British Museum, London | pottery beaker and over 850 silver coins[39] | ||
| Sunbury Hoard | Surrey | 1950 | Museum of London, London | 317 tin alloy coins and 56 fragments, together with fragments of a pottery vessel[40] | ||
| Syngenta Hoard | Berkshire | 1998 | Reading Museum | 58 gold coins[41] | ||
| Tal-y-Llyn Hoard | Merionethshire | 1963 | National Museum Cardiff | 1 brass plaque, fragments from two brass shields, several decorated brass plates (possibly from a ceremonial cart), and part of a Roman lock[42] | ||
| Whaddon Chase Hoard | Buckinghamshire | 1849 & 2006 | British Museum, London[43] Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury | between 450 and 800[44] and 2,000 gold staters — see also Little Horwood Hoard | ||
| Whitchurch Hoard | Hampshire | 1987 | Hampshire Museums Service (4 of each type). The remainder sold at Christies, October 1988, lots 236–246. | 34 Gallo-Belgic E gold staters, and 108 British B (or, Chute,) gold staters.[45] | ||
Suffolk | 2008 | Ipswich Museum | 840 gold staters[46] [47] | |||
| Winchester Hoard | Hampshire | 2000 | British Museum, London | 4 gold brooches 1 gold chain 1 gold bracelet (complete) 2 gold bracelet halves 2 gold torcs | ||
| Walkington Hoard | East Yorkshire | 2005 | Yorkshire Museum, York | a collection of gold staters of the Corieltauvi. Various types of coin. Discovered in batches but regarded as associated.[48] [49] | ||