List of hoards in the Channel Islands

The list of hoards in the Channel Islands comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and associated smaller islands). It includes both hoards that were buried with the intention of retrieval at a later date (personal hoards, founder's hoards, merchant's hoards, and hoards of loot), and also hoards of votive offerings which were not intended to be recovered at a later date, but excludes grave goods and single items found in isolation. The list is subdivided into sections according to archaeological and historical periods.

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.^[2] Although the contents of most Iron Age and Roman hoards found in the Channel Islands originated from nearby France or Britain, one hoard that was discovered in Guernsey during the late 19th century comprised Roman coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt during the late 3rd century A.D.^[3]

1. ^ ^{a b} Finch, Olga. "Le Câtillon Hoard" (PDF). Jersey Heritage. Retrieved 2 July 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. ^ "Jersey Celtic Coin hoard contains gold and silver items". Jersey Heritage. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
3. ^ ^{a b} Robinson, E. S. G. (1937). "A Hoard of Alexandrine Coins from Guernsey". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society: 135–138.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Schedule of sites of archaeological importance" (PDF). States of Jersey. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
5. ^ Kendrick, Thomas Downing (1928). The Archaeology of the Channel Islands. Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis. pp. 62–64.
6. ^ "Bronze Age pottery find in Jersey". BBC News. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
7. ^ "Airport x-ray scans reveal haul of new Bronze Age axeheads in pot found in Jersey field". Culture24. 13 November 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
8. ^ "Roman and Celtic coin hoard worth up to £10m found in Jersey". BBC News. 26 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
9. ^ de Beaulieu, Colbert (1958). "Armorican coin hoards in the Channel Islands". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 24: 201–210. doi:10.1017/s0079497x00016807.
10. ^ Allen, D. F. (1971). "The Sark Hoard". Archaeologia. 103: 1–31. doi:10.1017/s0261340900013849.
11. ^ ^{a b} Eadie, Peter McGregor (1981). The Channel Islands. E. Benn. p. 23. ISBN 0528846191.
12. ^ Higginbottom, R. W. (1981). Burnett, Andrew M. (ed.). Coin hoards from Roman Britain. Vol. 2. British Museum. p. 69. ISBN 0-86159-031-7.
13. ^ Allen, D. F. "The Sark Hoard of Celtic Coins and Phalerae". The Numismatic Chronicle: 37–54.
14. ^ Harding, Dennis William (2007). The Archaeology of Celtic Art. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 9780415351775.

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