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Prior to the discovery of the hoard, the largest buried collection of gold found in the US was uncovered by city workers in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1985. The Jackson hoard had a face value of $4,500 and sold for about $1 million (not adjusted for inflation). [7] The face value of the Saddle Ridge treasure is $27,980. [8]
The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard to have been found, comprising over 1,500 items of gold and silver. More Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been found in the context of grave burials than hoards in England.
A treasure inquest has been opened into the 1,400-year-old hoard of 131 gold coins, discovered between 2014 and 2020. Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins in England unearthed in Norfolk Skip ...
The Hoxne Hoard (/ ˈ h ɒ k s ən / HOK-sən) [2] is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, [3] and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. [4] It was found by Eric Lawes, a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in ...
A hoard of Roman coins worth over $125,000 was found during a construction project in central England. The stash of gold and silver coins date back to the reign of Rome's Emperor Nero, according ...
The Bunnik Hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard discovered in the city of Bunnik, Netherlands. The hoard consists of 404 coins of Celtic, Roman, and Numidian origin which were deposited in 47 AD. It is notable as the largest hoard found in Utrecht and the first mixed composition hoard found outside of Great Britain.
Carpenter Dave Allen from Essex helps to dig up the Roman treasure found on the campsite (Noonans) His friends: herds manager, Mick Rae, 63; and carpenter, David Allen, 59, sprang into action and ...