The museum has won the largest iron age gold coins in the UK –

The Chelmsford Museum received the great Baddow Hoard, the largest iron age gold coin hoard ever in Britain. It almost disappeared, even before it was known to exist, but now, with the National Lottery Heritage Foundation and other donations receiving a grant of £250,000, the public will see hoards a few miles from where they were found.

The giant Baddow Hoard consists of 933 gold coins, dating from 60 to 20 BC pieces, probably a copper tube, including a round, round or round or bottom copper, from bronze bars, three pieces with opaque red glass with Bronze Strips affixed to it, which pairs with brone-style glasses that might be used on board, which might be reasonable on board. Archaeologists believe that coins are buried in ships.

Coins come from the British Iron Age tribes who initially imported Celtic coins from overseas, they started hitting their own coins for the first time using a regional mold (metal stamp).

The huge Baddow hoard provided the first archaeological evidence of the invasion between the neighboring Trinovantes and Catuvellauni in eastern England. As Claire Willetts, curator of the Chelmsford Museum, explains:

“People think that most of the coins in the great Baddow building blocks were later produced in the region and later associated with the so-called ‘catuvellauni’, in theory to pay tribute to Roman general Julius Caesar. During Caesar’s second invasion of Britain in 54 BC, these events were recorded in Roman sources, and so far there is little archaeological evidence to support them, making our understanding of late Iron Age Britain an important discovery.”

Hoji was discovered in 2020 in dark situations, which is why we now only listen to real stories. The discoverer is a metal detector on private land without the permission of the landowner. That’s illegal. On September 22, he found the gold coins and he did not announce them to the local discovery liaison officer of the Portable Antiquities Project (PAS). That’s extra illegal.

He told a tenant on September 27 that he told a tenant about the ho-cai tenant that it was the tenant who informed the landowner. The landowner reported the discovery to the Essex liaison officer the next day. The discoverer was caught, and the discoverer hoarded the landowner (he had washed 513 coins, plus 393 coins) and was kicked out of the property. The landowner handed the coins to PAS on October 14, and archaeologists dug the site on October 22. They found another gold coin and more bronze fragments from the ship.

The landowner apparently refused to allow the discoverer to return to the scene to find more treasures, but he would not refuse to reply. Essex police found him at the scene and were arrested. They took 23 coins from him and his companion. But there is more shamelessness. He contacted the magazine Treasure Hunt They published anonymous notes about the finding. It estimates that the coins are wrong, while other media pick up the garbled characters of the story with the wrong coins date and location.

What we know about the original context of ho product is that it has a depth of about two feet. The photos taken by Finder show about four square feet of holes with bronze fragments and gold coins embedded in the sides. This means he cuts into hoarding while digging.

Eventually, he was tried by Chemsford District Court and was convicted of failing to declare the treasure and attempted to steal by discovery. In treasure cases, the usual reward is the 50-50 assessed value of the discovery allocation between the discoverer and the landlord. Needless to say, this particular discoverer didn’t get a dime. Only the landowner received payment from Quanhuidiya.

Therefore, this treasure of priceless historical value is almost lost. It is easily sold in pieces and no one will know that it has accumulated. Whaddon Chase Hoard, another record-breaking candidate discovered in Buckinghamshire in 1849, was the largest iron gold coin whaddon Chase Hoard in Britain (the type of coins in a vat), scattered after discovery, so no one knows how many of them were. Estimates range from 450 to 2000 coins.

Thankfully, the regret of fate has been avoided, and the large trolley hoard will be openly displayed in the temporary exhibition at the Chelmsford Museum in the summer of 2026. It will be permanently displayed starting in spring 2027.