Some of the Anglo-Saxon coins from a hoard found on Buckinghamshire farmland last December The coins are presently being cleaned, conserved and examined in the British Museum conservation laboratories
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Portable Antiquities Scheme
At the beginning of the year we ran a feature on the exciting Hoard of more than 5,000 Anglo-Saxon silver coins found just before Christmas, 2014, in a Buckinghamshire field by a metal detectorist. On the scene at the time was the Finds Liaison Officer for the area, Ros Tyrrell, whose account of the find can be read on the Culture24 website here.
The coins are now being cleaned and conserved at the British Museum. Meanwhile, Ms Tyrrell is reported as saying, on Culture 24, that, “It’s an exceptional find – one of the biggest in the country. It’s the biggest hoard of any sort in Buckinghamshire. The [Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury] would like to acquire them for the people of Buckinghamshire. Whether we can afford them is another matter.”
We hope that at least some of the coins will eventually be on display in Buckinghamshire. Meanwhile, a big ‘well done’ to Ms Tyrrell, and all present on the day, not to mention the dedication of the British Museum conservators and curators whose task it now is to clean, conserve and research this extraordinary find.
The Heritage Trust 
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12/01/2015 at 10:33 am
roygoutte
How pleasing to hear that the ‘excavation’ of the coins was carried out in a much more professional way than that described by certain other people hell bent on giving detectorists a bad press, something that has become somewhat of an obsession with them over the years. So small-minded that they don’t realise that the finding and recording of such hoards far outweighs the few items discovered and not reported and sold for profit by a very small minority of detectorists. The fact remains that if many of these hoards were not discovered by enthusiasts carrying out a hobby they get great enjoyment from, then the likelihood is that they would never be found and completely lost to us. Nothing like spoiling a day out in the countryside is there for some people.
Even when the ‘good guys’ follow all the rules these obsessive people still look for ways to have a ‘dig’ at them such is their paranoia. How sad!
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