The Tealby Hoard is a
hoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...
of medieval coins found at
Tealby
Tealby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and north-east of Market Rasen. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 593.
Communi ...
, Lincolnshire in 1807.
Discovery
The discovery of the coin hoard was first reported in the ''
Stamford Mercury
The ''Stamford Mercury'' (also the ''Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', the ''Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', and the ''Rutland Mercury'') based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, claims to be "Britain's oldest cont ...
'' on 6 November 1807: "a person ploughing...turned up at one end of a considerable tumulus a coarse glazed earthen pot, which contained about five thousand silver pennies, of Henry I and Henry II". It was followed up with a short article on 20 November which identified that some of the hoard had been deposited at the
British Museum
The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...
and others were in private collections, especially that of
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English Natural history, naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Banks made his name on the European and American voyages of scientific exploration, 1766 natural-history ...
.
Contents
The hoard contained over 6000 silver coins in a Roman waster (a mis-fired) ceramic vessel.
The vessel (donated to
The Collection, Lincoln in 1956) was over 900 years old when the hoard was deposited. 5127 coins were subsequently melted down at the
Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamle ...
.
The discover of the coins led to the modern description of a type of penny issued by Henry II as the 'Tealby-type'.
References
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The Tealby hoard pot – a little waster with a long life
1807 in England
Archaeological sites in Lincolnshire
History of Lincolnshire
1807 archaeological discoveries
Coin hoards
Medieval European objects in the British Museum
Collection of the Lincoln Museum, Lincolnshire