The Grouville (Le Câtillon II) Hoard
The Grouville (Le Câtillon II) Hoard: still unexplained.
~70,000 Celtic & Roman coins, the largest such hoard on earth
Two detectorists, Reg Mead and Richard Miles, chased a farmer's rumour of silver 'pieces' for thirty years before the signal finally came: a single fused mass of about seventy thousand Iron Age coins, gold torcs, and jewellery, the largest Celtic coin hoard ever found. Three decades of patience, one impossible afternoon.
- Two detectorists, Reg Mead and Richard Miles, searched a single Jersey field for 30 years on a farmer's rumor of silver coins, and in 2012 finally hit a half-ton mass of Celtic coins and gold.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
- Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
- Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.
Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.
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