Introduction

Buried Treasures: Uncovering Hoards examines 8 of the 48 hoards held in part at the Barber Institute’s coin collection – from here you can explore the exhibition case by case.

Unlike a lot of archaeology, hoards can be found by ordinary people, from builders to farmers, metal detectorists to divers. Similarly, the coins and other objects found in hoards were likely handled by all different sorts of people from the past – army wages found in chests, banks found buried in the ground, taxation leaving the provinces and treasured items hidden from looters but never recovered.

To uncover more of the Barber’s hoards online, click here

The Appleford Hoard                              The Dorchester Hoard

Hoard A                                                       Syria 1957 Hoard

 The Carthage 1945 Hoard                   The Tunis 1954 Hoard

Mardin Hoard                                          Messina Hoard