Bitterley hoard

To start the day in the best way, enjoythe extraordinary buffetbreakfast in the our courtyard caressed

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Conservation – Unpacking the hoard Beverly Nenk
Conservation – Soil block and coins 4
Conservation – Soil block and coins 3
Conservation – Soil block and coins 2
Conservation – Hoard under excavation 5
Conservation – Hoard under excavation 4
Conservation – Hoard under excavation 3
Conservation – Hoard under excavation 2
Conservation – Hoard under excavation
Conservation – Purse
Conservation – Tyg 4
Coins – Stack 7
Coins – Obverse Edward VI
Coins – Reverse Edward VI
Coins – Obverse James I Gold Britain Crown
Coins – Reverse James I Gold Britain Crown
Coins – Obverse James I
Coins – Reverse James I
Conservation – Unpacking the hoard Pippa Pearce
Conservation – Unpacking the hoard Ian Richardson
Conservation – Unpacking the hoard 2
Conservation – Unpacking the hoard
Conservation – Soil block and coins
Conservation – Tyg 3
Conservation – Tyg 2
Conservation – Tyg
Conservation – removing some coins 3
Conservation – removing some coins 2
Conservation – removing some coins
Conservation – mouth of tyg after coins taken out
Conservation – Gold Britain Crown in pot
Coins – Reverse Charles I Bristol Mint
Coins – Obverse Charles I Bristol Mint
Coins – Charles I Bristol Mint
Bitterley Excavation – The end of the day 3
Bitterley Excavation – Howard looks on
Bitterley Excavation – the coins and pot 2
Bitterley Excavation – the coins and pot
Bitterley Excavation – the detectorists hole
Bitterley Excavation – the coins excavated 2
Bitterley Excavation – the soil block
Bitterley Excavation – the coins excavated
Bitterley Excavation – the coins revealed
Bitterley Excavation – sondage section
Bitterley Excavation – Howard Murphy revealing the hoard
Bitterley Excavation – at the level of teh hoard
Bitterley Excavation – cleaning back
Bitterley Excavation – cleaning back 2
Bitterley Excavation – clee hill in the mist
Bitterley Excavation – cutting the trench
Bitterley Excavation – Howard Murphy (finder) detecting
Bitterley Excavation – lifting the soil block
Bitterley Excavation – Peter and Howard explain what is going on to visitors
Bitterley Excavation – Peter Reavill recording
Bitterley Excavation – Peter Reavill recording 2
Bitterley Excavation – Peter Reavill recording 3
Bitterley Excavation – Peter Reavill recording 4
Bitterley Excavation – recording
Bitterley Excavation – sondage plan
Bitterley Excavation – The end of the day
Bitterley Excavation – The end of the day 2
Bitterley Excavation – the original find
Bitterley Excavation – the original find Peter Reavill and Howard Murphy
Bitterley Excavation – the soil block – a prayer before the lift
Bitterley Excavation – Tom Brindle digging
Bitterley Excavation – Tom Brindle digging 2
Bitterley Excavation – Tom Brindle digging 3
Bitterley Excavation – visitors
Bitterley Excavation Plan and sections
Bitterley Excavation Plan and Section of finders excavation
Detail of the coins in the ground
Gold Britain Crown of James I
Silver Shilling of Edward VI
The coin Hoard laid out stratigrapghicaly – tray 1
The coin Hoard laid out stratigrapghicaly – tray 2
Some Elizabethan Coins
Preserved leather purse within vessel
Detail of preserved leather
The inside of the vessel once coins removedside empty
A stack of coins from the hoard
Detail of coins in tray
Coins embeded in the leather purse
Silver Half Crown of the Bristol Mint 1643
Detail of Peter Reavill Excavating the coins

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