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Hoxne Hoard

Hoxne, Suffolk

A farmer's lost hammer leads to the greatest Roman hoard in Britain.

Eric Lawes was searching a field with a metal detector for a hammer a farmer had lost. Instead he found Roman treasure: around 15,000 gold and silver coins, jewellery and spoons.

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When
Found 16 November 1992
Where
52.3400, 1.2000
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

The hoard is displayed at the British Museum, London.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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