Britain's Last Roman Hoards with Professor Ellen Swift & Dr Kelly Clarke-Neish

Britain's Last Roman Hoards with Professor Ellen Swift & Dr Kelly Clarke-Neish · Some they hid in the earth…and some they carried away’. This entry in the  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  tells the story of what happened to precious metal treasure…

This entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells the story of what happened to precious metal treasure hoards in Britain following the withdrawal of Roman authority in the fifth century. Many were never recovered by their owners, and some are now found in museum collections across the UK. Here in Worthing we have a particularly important example in the form of the Patching Hoard! Collectively, these