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title: Hoxne Hoard
author: Ahala
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# Hoxne Hoard

_Authored by Ahala_

## Image File

[![Hoxne Hoard](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/5510.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/5510.jpg)

## Image Caption

Discovered in Suffolk, in the east of [England](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/england/) in 1992 CE, the incredible collection known as the Hoxne Hoard contains 14,865 late-4th and early-5th century CE [Roman](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Roman/) [gold](https://www.worldhistory.org/gold/), [silver](https://www.worldhistory.org/Silver/) and [bronze](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/bronze/) coins, and 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery. The hoard amounts to a total of 7.7lb of gold and 52.4 lb of silver. Here is a selection of items presented in a reconstruction of their original wooden container, now lost. (British Museum, London)

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## License & Copyright

[Original image](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_hoard_case.jpg) by [**Ahala**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_hoard_case.jpg). Submitted by [Mark Cartwright](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/markzcartwright/ "User Page: Mark Cartwright"), published on 23 August 2016. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0deed.en). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.