List of hoards in the Channel Islands

At least fifteen hoards have been found in the Channel Islands since the early 18th century, most of them in Jersey, and only one each in Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Of the known hoards, about a third date to the Bronze Age and are mostly founder's hoards comprising broken tools, weapons and other scrap metal buried with the intention of recovery at a later date for use in casting new bronze items. Another third are hoards of Iron Age Celtic coins, mostly coins called staters cast in debased silver (billon alloy), the majority deriving from Armorica (modern Brittany and Normandy in France), but some deriving from Southern Britain.[1] The remaining hoards comprise Roman coins, some of which may have been buried by Armorican Celts fleeing from Roman armies during the campaigns of Julius Caesar in the mid 1st century B.C.Cite error: Closing `</ref>` missing for `<ref>` tag

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## Contents

* 1 Bronze Age hoards
* 2 Iron Age hoards
* 3 Roman hoards
* 4 See also
* 5 Footnotes

## Bronze Age hoards

The table below list hoards that are associated with the Bronze Age, approximately 1300 BC to 700 BC.

Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents

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Cadoret Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Saint Mary Saint Mary

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°14′29″N 2°10′55″W﻿ / ﻿49.2415°N 2.1820°W﻿ / 49.2415; -2.1820﻿ (Cadoret Hoard)

| 1995  |  | Founder's hoard comprising 178 miscellaneous bronze items, including broken pieces of weapons, tools and ornaments, as well as casting debris[2]
La Blanche Pierre Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°12′14″N 2°09′00″W﻿ / ﻿49.2040°N 2.1500°W﻿ / 49.2040; -2.1500﻿ (La Blanche Pierre Hoard)

| 1976  |  | 114 bronze items, mostly broken axes, spears and swords, in an urn[2]
Mainlands Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°12′05″N 2°08′54″W﻿ / ﻿49.2013°N 2.1483°W﻿ / 49.2013; -2.1483﻿ (Mainlands Hoard)

| 1871  |  | bronze items[2]
Longy Hoard  |  | -9200 9th century B.C.

| Alderney Longy Common

Alderney
[ ⚑ ] 49°43′23″N 2°10′30″W﻿ / ﻿49.723°N 2.175°W﻿ / 49.723; -2.175﻿ (Longy Hoard)

| 1832  | Guille-Allès Museum, Guernsey  | Founder's hoard of about 200 bronze items, including axes, spear heads, sickles, chisels and bronze scraps[3]
St Ouen's Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Saint Ouen Saint Ouen

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°13′32″N 2°12′32″W﻿ / ﻿49.2255°N 2.2090°W﻿ / 49.2255; -2.2090﻿ (St Ouen's Hoard)

| 2002  |  | 200 bronze items[2]
Town Mill Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Saint Helier Saint Helier

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°11′43″N 2°06′00″W﻿ / ﻿49.1952°N 2.1000°W﻿ / 49.1952; -2.1000﻿ (Town Mill Hoard)

| 1836  |  | 88 bronze axes, most miniature versions of an Armorican type[2]
Trinity Hoard  |  | 0000 ?

| Jersey, Trinity Trinity

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°14′06″N 2°05′28″W﻿ / ﻿49.2350°N 2.0911°W﻿ / 49.2350; -2.0911﻿ (Trinity Hoard)

| 2012  |  | Pot containing tools and weapons, including 23 bronze axeheads[4][5]

## Iron Age hoards

The table below list hoards that are associated with the Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD.

Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents

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Grouville Hoard  |  | -9950 1st century B.C.

| Jersey, Grouville Grouville

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°11′N 2°03′W﻿ / ﻿49.19°N 2.05°W﻿ / 49.19; -2.05﻿ (Grouville Hoard)

| 2012  | In the hands of Jersey Heritage (not on display)  | 30,000 – 50,000 late Iron Age Celtic and Roman coins, as well as some items of silver and gold jewellery[6]
La Marquanderie Hoard  |  | 0050 mid 1st century AD

| Jersey, Saint Brelade Saint Brélade

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°11′15″N 2°11′58″W﻿ / ﻿49.1875°N 2.1995°W﻿ / 49.1875; -2.1995﻿ (La Marquanderie Hoard)

| 1935  |  | 10,547 Armorican coins, almost all issued by the Curiosolitae[2]
Le Câtillon Hoard  |  | -9950 mid 1st century BC

| Jersey, Grouville Grouville

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°11′41″N 2°03′09″W﻿ / ﻿49.1946°N 2.0525°W﻿ / 49.1946; -2.0525﻿ (Le Câtillon Hoard)

| 1957  | Dispersed, but the La Hougue Bie Museum holds some coins  | about 2,500 Armorican, Belgic and Southern British Iron Age coins, most billon staters issued by the Curiosolitae, as well as some pieces of jewellery, including fragments of a gold torque, several silver and bronze fibulae, a silver chain and some bronze rings[1][2]
Rozel Hoard (1820)  |  | -9960 mid 1st century B.C.

| Jersey, Saint Martin Le Câtel, Rozel, Saint Martin

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°14′17″N 2°03′18″W﻿ / ﻿49.238°N 2.055°W﻿ / 49.238; -2.055﻿ (Rozel Hoard (1820))

| 1820  | Lost  | At least 982 Armorican billon staters, mostly issued by the Curiosolitae[7]
Rozel Hoard (1875)  |  | -9960 mid 1st century B.C. (c. 40 B.C.)

| Jersey, Saint Martin Little Caesarea, Rozel, Saint Martin

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°14′13″N 2°02′53″W﻿ / ﻿49.237°N 2.048°W﻿ / 49.237; -2.048﻿ (Rozel Hoard (1875))

| 1875  | Mostly lost, some at the British Museum, London  | Several thousand coins (drawings of 700 of them are known)[8]

## Roman hoards

The table below list hoards of Roman artefacts and Roman coins.

Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents

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Île Agois Hoard  |  | 0268 mid 3rd century

| Jersey, Saint Mary Île Agois, Saint Mary

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°14′56″N 2°10′55″W﻿ / ﻿49.249°N 2.182°W﻿ / 49.249; -2.182﻿ (Île Agois Hoard)

|  |  | 18 antoniniani, dated A.D. 253–268, in a pot[9]
Jerbourg Hoard  |  | 0294 late 3rd century

| Guernsey, Saint Martin Jerbourg Point, Saint Martin

Guernsey
[ ⚑ ] 49°25′30″N 2°32′06″W﻿ / ﻿49.425°N 2.535°W﻿ / 49.425; -2.535﻿ (Jerbourg Hoard)

| before 1890  | Dispersed  | 68 tetradrachms minted in Alexandria during the reigns of the emperors Probus (4 coins), Carus (3 coins), Numerian (3 coins), Carinus (4 coins), Diocletian (34 coins) and Maximian (19 coins)[10]
Quennevais Hoard  |  | 0354 mid 4th century

| Jersey, Saint Brelade Les Quennevais, Saint Brélade

Jersey
[ ⚑ ] 49°11′49″N 2°11′38″W﻿ / ﻿49.197°N 2.194°W﻿ / 49.197; -2.194﻿ (Quennevais Hoard)

| 1848  | Jersey Museum (264 coins)  | about 400 coins in a pot, mainly Roman folles dated A.D. 290–354[9][11]
Sark Hoard  |  | -9900 1st century B.C.

| Sark La Vaurocque

Sark
[ ⚑ ] 49°25′48″N 2°21′54″W﻿ / ﻿49.430°N 2.365°W﻿ / 49.430; -2.365﻿ (Sark Hoard)

| 1719  | Lost  | 18 Roman and Gaulish silver coins, a silver mount in the form of a dolphin, and 13 silver or silver-gilt phalerae in an iron-bound pottery urn[12][13]

## See also

* List of hoards in Great Britain
* List of hoards in Ireland
* List of hoards in the Isle of Man
* List of metal detecting finds
* History of Guernsey
* History of Jersey

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Finch, Olga. "Le Câtillon Hoard". Jersey Heritage. http://www.jerseyheritage.org/media/Heritage Mag/Le Caitillon hoard.pdf. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Schedule of sites of archaeological importance". States of Jersey. http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Planning and building/SPG-Policy 1 - ArchAndPlanning 2.pdf. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
3. ↑ Kendrick, Author Thomas Downing (1928). The Archaeology of the Channel Islands. 1. Taylor & Francis. pp. 62–64.
4. ↑ "Bronze Age pottery find in Jersey". BBC News. 10 October 2012. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-19896386. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
5. ↑ "Airport x-ray scans reveal haul of new Bronze Age axeheads in pot found in Jersey field". Culture24. 13 November 2012. http://www.culture24.org.uk/history & heritage/archaeology/art408817. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
6. ↑ "Roman and Celtic coin hoard worth up to £10m found in Jersey". BBC News. 26 June 2012. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18579868. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
7. ↑ de Beaulieu, Colbert (1958). "Armorican coin hoards in the Channel Islands". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 24: 201–210. doi:10.1017/s0079497x00016807.
8. ↑ Allen, D. F. (1971). "The Sark Hoard". Archaeologia 103: 1–31. doi:10.1017/s0261340900013849.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eadie, Peter McGregor (1981). The Channel Islands. E. Benn. p. 23. ISBN 0528846191.
10. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `robinson-1937`
11. ↑ Higginbottom, R. W. (1981). Burnett, Andrew M.. ed. Coin hoards from Roman Britain. 2. British Museum. p. 69. ISBN 0-86159-031-7.
12. ↑ Allen, D. F.. "The Sark Hoard of Celtic Coins and Phalerae". The Numismatic Chronicle: 37–54.
13. ↑ Harding, Dennis William (2007). The Archaeology of Celtic Art. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 9780415351775.

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