Herefordshire Hoard
Welcome to the home of 'Bring the Hoard home to Herefordshire'
We did it!
Although donations for the acquisition of the Hoard are now closed, if you are keen to help us with funding the work on conservation, research and display please contact the team at HMSSG.
Information about any upcoming events will be on our events section
Thank you to everyone who supported and donated to our campaign to bring the Hoard home to Herefordshire. We’re delighted to announce we’ve made it.
The campaign to acquire, display and care for the objects found locally in 2015.
While hoard finds are not that unusual, with the Herefordshire Hoard not only the story of their rediscovery, but the objects themselves are intriguing.
Keep up to date with all our latest events
Read more details on the rediscovery and the objects on our 'Story' Page
Thanks to all those people who have attended our events, donated their small (and not so small!) change and shown their support to 'Bring the hoard home to Herefordshire'.
All your donations, large and small, especially those with Gift Aid, have been key to meeting the target.
Messages of Support
Sir Tony Robinson
"I’ve always been fascinated by Alfred the Great and his battles alongside his Mercian allies against the great Viking Army. The Herefordshire Hoard gives us a fantastic insight into this world and even gives us solid evidence about a previously unrecognised alliance between Alfred and the King of Mercia. It’s a hoard of national importance and should certainly have pride of place in Hereford Museum."
Dr. Gareth Williams of the British Museum
“This is a hoard of enormous historical significance both for Herefordshire and for the nation as a whole. The Hoard raises many questions for our understanding of the period and those questions can only be answered in full if the Hoard is secured for posterity in a museum collection. Given the find spot of the Hoard, Herefordshire Museum is the obvious home for this important discovery”.
Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire
"I am delighted to offer support to this very significant campaign to bring the Herefordshire Hoard back to the county of Herefordshire.
The hoard is the single most important archaeological find from the county in half a century, and is of national significance, rewriting our understanding of history at a time when the English nation was forming from a number of separate kingdoms into a unified country.
The beauty and rarity of the objects alone are culturally valuable, and the hoard tells us so much about society and polities during the Anglo-Saxon and Viking period. The fundraising campaign to acquire this treasure, to give the people of the county and the whole country the chance to see it publicly displayed in our beautiful city of Hereford, is an aspiration I whole heartedly support."
Edward Harley, OBE. Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire