Recovered Hoards
The Water Newton Treasure
Found 1975 · Cambridgeshire, England
FoundThe prize. The earliest Christian silver in the empire
Where. Cambridgeshire, England
Status. Found
Where. Cambridgeshire, England
Status. Found
The account
A field in Cambridgeshire gave up a small hoard of silver that turned out to be the earliest set of Christian church plate known from the whole Roman world.
How it was found
- Turned up in a Cambridgeshire field in 1975, partly by plough and partly by detector, and proved to be the earliest known set of Christian church silver from anywhere in the Roman Empire.
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