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Record ID: IARCH-C37203
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 430 no. 1890: ""A lad said that not long since two small lead boxes containing gold and silver coins were found there [i.e. at the Union House]." -Ms. Diary of William Wire, 1842-57, in Colchester and Essex Museum, 3.4. 1845) Uncertain if Roman." De Jersey (2015) gives a full account of this discovery: ""An interesting and curious discovery has recently been made in excavating part of a field near this town. A labourer there employed, observed in the soil a small square box; on taking it up, being of wood and much decomposed, it fell to pieces, and disclosed a …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E68947
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "Ten bronze coins of Cunobelin found scattered at the base of rectangular pit D9, sealed below a deposit of puddled clay, in region 4 of the Sheepen site (Hawkes and Hull 1947, 101, 140). The clay contained imported Gallo-Belgic pottery and much indigenous pottery, as well as three sherds of Claudian terra sigillata which were considered intrusive. The pit is assigned to Period 1 (c.AD 10 - 43), "but with the terra sigillata sherds in the clay this may be questioned? (Haselgrove 1987, 273-4 no. 10)"."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BB0EA5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) gives the following details: "An important hoard combining Dubnovellaunos and Cunobelin staters, published by de Jersey and Wickenden (2004). The first discoveries apparently took place in April 1999 or shortly before, and the twenty-three coins which were eventually declared in October 2001 were said to have been found "over an area the size of a football pitch" (BMHF), after considerable activity by a JCB...Reports of archaeological features encountered during the "scrape" by the JCB - including a roundhouse and a boundary ditch - are probably fictitious; little pot…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-529DD6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "A hoard of fifty-one cast bronze coins found in the gully of a roundhouse (fill 1018 in context 550; Havis and Brooks 2004, 99, 102-4). The roundhouse was one of a number of similar structures set within a defended, rectangular settlement of approximately 80 m x 80 m, "occupied for a period of 50-70 years in the 1st century BC" (ibid., 529)... David Holman (pers. comm., 25 Oct. 2011) has recently examined the Takeley coins and has suggested that their classification needs further attention."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Takeley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-401F52
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) discusses this hoard of Gallo-Belgic coins found on the beach at Clacton in 1898, the bulk of which was in the Evans collection.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clacton I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4DA079
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) lists a "group of coins, some of which - but not all - were apparently found on the beach at Clacton in February 1905. Four of them - a Gallo-Belgic A stater, one British La, one British Lb, and the Addedomaros stater - were in the Laver collection which was acquired by Colchester Museum in 1941, and seem to be reliably provenanced...To these may be added another British La stater, found in 1930, and possibly a second British Lb identified in the trade in 1992 (Sills 2003, 358)...Allen (1960a, 202) also recorded a quarter stater found on the beach in 1924 which Haselg…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clacton II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1846D7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey 2015 "A fused mass of six staters, evidently fiercely burnt, weighing 32.92 g (BMHF). The coins at each end are readily identifiable as a biga stater of Cunobelin and a stater of Tasciovanos; the four in the middle remain unidentified, although they are presumably of the same types. The principal significance of the find lies in the association of coins of Tasciovanos and Cunobelin".
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester III', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B00F59
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
The finder of the first coin, a stater of Cunobelin stated "that the first coin had been found barely beneath the surface, in early 1971. On 27 January 1973 he and his detecting partner searched the same spot again, and found the eleven additional coins - another seven staters of Cunobelin and four of Tasciovanos - up to 30 m apart and from just below the surface to about 25 cm deep. The site was said to have been disturbed by roadworks and/or the planting of a hedge, which may well have scattered the hoard" (de Jersey 2015). De Jersey also notes that "The combination of Tasciovano…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epping Upland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F367CE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A possible scattered hoard of a Clacton type stater and quarter staters, found in the early 1980s. No further information available.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Baddow', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-953EFE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015), writes: "John Sills (2003, 361-3, nos 24-5) has made strenuous efforts to unravel the tangled web of misinformation, obfuscation and deception surrounding the discovery of between one and three hoards at one or more locations in central Essex, c.1996-9. The records are confused probably beyond all hope of redemption, but in summary, it seems most likely that there were two separate hoards, one in the vicinity of Great Dunmow/Great Waltham, and another at Great Leighs" He then goes on to describe the circumstances and the contents of the finds in detail. and the di…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunmow Or Great Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CA8836
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "John Sills (2003, 361-3, nos 24-5) has made strenuous efforts to unravel the tangled web of misinformation, obfuscation and deception surrounding the discovery of between one and three hoards at one or more locations in central Essex, c.1996-9. The records are confused probably beyond all hope of redemption, but in summary, it seems most likely that there were two separate hoards, one in the vicinity of Great Dunmow/Great Waltham, and another at Great Leighs." He then goes onto discuss the contents and circumstances of discovery for each find and the diffi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Leighs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-335394
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Five staters of Dubnovellaunos found in a radius of c.75 m on land near Maldon (BMHF). The first three were declared Treasure in 1999 (TAR 1998-99, 101-2 no. 269); two further coins were found in the autumn of 2001 and in October 2002 (TAR 2003, 151 no. 350; 2003 T397). Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2003 T397
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heybridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B58437
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Two staters of Addedomaros, found c. April 1993 (BMHF). No trace of a container; no other details recorded.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Totham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E4F4AA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "At least two or three hoards were recovered in the early nineteenth century in the area of Marks Tey, to the west of Colchester, but it is difficult now to disentangle the various rather sketchy published accounts. The first in date would seem to be 1803, the primary record of which is reproduced by Allen (1960a, 288 no. 14): a letter in the Bodleian dated 28 November 1848, from H. Wright of Knutsford to Dr Bull of Christ Church, which asks for the five coins he is sending to be given to the Bodleian...The five coins - three Gallo-Belgic uniface staters, and …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marks Tey I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-359BD3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) gives details of the second or third hoard from Mark's Tey, this one reported in 1843 in the Proceedings of the Numismatic Society. De Jersey writes: "The records of Revd Henry Jenkins's exhibits to the Numismatic Society are not especially helpful in reconstructing the Marks Tey (1843) hoard. The comment in the April 1843 report about the hundreds of similar coins found "about twenty years since" presumably refers back to the 1803 or 1807 discoveries...The other principal source of information on the find is the diary of William Wire, Colchester antiquarian and "…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marks Tey II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-834A18
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Clacton type quarter stater shown to the British Museum in June 1996 was reported to be one of three found at St Lawrence Bay. No further details available.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Lawrence Bay', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-26EB5B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015): "Two gold staters found about five metres apart late in 2000 or in January 2001 (TAR 2000, 106 no. 225). They represent an unlikely association of types; the coins seem to have been declared Treasure on the basis of a report which suggested that they may have been deliberately deposited at different times (BMHF)."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southend Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-826158
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey 2015 lists "At least four Gallo-Belgic E staters probably originating in a single deposit have been discovered in the mud off the south coast of Mersea Island. The first (no. 4 in the list below) was found in 1995, two more (nos 1-2) - about 50-100 m apart - on two days in March 1997, and the fourth (no. 3) in December 2000, all within a radius of about 115 m (P. Sealey, pers. comm.)". He also notes earlier reports of coins from the same area, possibly the same find.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Mersea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-62EAED
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
The find comprises two "Gallo-Belgic" Aa class 4 gold staters, one of which is slightly bent to the edge. Addendum of one stater 2011 and of a quarter stater in 2012. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2011 T119; 2011 T635; 2012 T913 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: BH-76C512
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stansted Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-93E54B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Seven gold and debased Iron Age gold coins were found by metal detector users taking part in an organised "metal detecting holiday" in February/March 2013. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2013 T141 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: ESS-76DCE8 2013 T141 - 7 coins ESS-76DCE8 2015 T107 - 5 coins PAS-C9BA0A 2015 T517 - 1 coin ESS-FFEF3A 2017 T342 - 1 cut coin ESS-CE73EE 2019 T743 - 1 cut coin ESS-53CEA8
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AD9C2D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Previously undocumented hoard recorded in police statement found in a file at the BM.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham-On-Crouch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EE967E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
One stater and one unit of Cunobelin, found together. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2003 T350 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: ESS-CF25B0; ESS-CFA9A8
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ardleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-ED2DD0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Two Gallo-Belgic E staters found together in 1992 but not declared Treasure.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bergholt', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-81EBCF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A widely-scattered hoard of staters of Addedomaros, discovered by eight or more detectorists in repeated visits to the site. The first six coins were found in March 2005 (2005 T146), and three more in October of the same year (2005 T462; NC 166 (2006), 365 no. 4); these nine coins were acquired by Colchester Museum. The focus of the hoard was said to be in the corner of one field; other coins were found across five neighbouring fields, but these do not appear to have had any direct association with the hoard. Eight coins were discovered to the East of Colchester by metal detector users…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-67C78D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
IARCH record for 10 Iron Age gold and debased gold coins found during an "organised metal detecting holiday" in March-April and November 2013. I. Leins writes "The coin group includes a mixture of "Gallo-Belgic" types that are usually thought to have been made on the Continent, in modern NW France, in the mid-first century BC, and broadly contemporary British products of types proper to the Essex/Hertfordshire area" 2013 T256 - 10 coins ESS-E8C5F5 2014 T685 - 7 coins PAS-B85CB1 2016 T45 - 1 coin ESS-7B09C4 2017 T298 - 1 coin ESS-BE1E11 2017 T569 - 1 coin ESS-4BDA57 2017 T…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Colchester II', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4D4CB9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age coin hoard, 12th addenda to the Little Bromley Hoard (2005 T146). Artefact no Description Dimensions 1 An Eastern British Iron-Age gold stater of Addedomaros, struck between c. 45-25 BC. (ABC Type 2517). The obverse has three hollow crescents at the centre which are decorated to represent scallops. From these are six projecting arms to the edge of the coin. Each arm has a twisted rope appearance with a defining ridge marking the edge. Within the junction of each arm is a single pellet. …
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Bromley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DBEBD6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The Baddow hoard consists of 933 gold Iron Age coins and fragments of an associated container or vessel of uncertain form, as detailed below. The coins: All but 3 of the 933 coins in the hoard are British Iron Age gold coins of a single type. This is an uninscribed Eastern (North Thames) British Iron Age gold stater of ‘Whaddon Chase’ type ABC 2433, or rather a distinct group of coins of this type with a more easterly distribution identifiable by the dies used (Sills’ ‘Whaddon East’ type (Sills 2017 p.439)). These coins were produced in the North Thames …
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baddow', grid reference and parish protected.