Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
BIGGEST Iron Age Hoard ever found.
Over 900 gleaming gold coins. A mystery over 2,000 years in the making. Unearthed in the village of Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex, The Great Baddow Hoard is the largest discovery of Iron Age gold coins ever found in Britain. Buried deep in the earth during the Late Iron Age - around the same time Julius Caesar was launching his first invasions of Britain - this incredible collection of decorated staters is being revealed to the world in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Chelmsford.
The exhibition, Timeless Treasure: The Great Baddow Hoard, is now open at the Museum of Chelmsford. Access the to the exhibition is free with museum entry
More information can be found here:
museumofchelmsford.co.uk/events/timeless-treasures
0:00 Introduction
0:46 The Great Baddow hoard
2:41 Historical context of Iron Age Britain
3:56 Discovering the buried vessel
4:44 Theories on why the hoard was buried
6:28 Re-excavating the discovery site
7:20 Struck gold: finding two more coins
8:16 Comparing local Iron Age finds
9:50 What coins reveal about Iron Age society
11:34 Analysing the obverse and horse designs
14:39 Examining rare variant coins
16:57 The continental Gallic coin
18:13 Final theories on the hoard's origin
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BIGGEST Iron Age Hoard ever found.
Over 900 gleaming gold coins. A mystery over 2,000 years in the making. Unearthed in the village of Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex, The Great Baddow Hoard is the largest discovery of Iron Age gold coins ever found in Britain. Buried deep in the earth during the Late Iron Age - around the same time Julius Caesar was launching his first invasions of Britain - this incredible collection of decorated staters is being revealed to the world in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Chelmsford.
The exhibition, Timeless Treasure: The Great Baddow Hoard, is now open at the Museum of Chelmsford. Access the to the exhibition is free with museum entry
More information can be found here:
museumofchelmsford.co.uk/events/timeless-treasures
0:00 Introduction
0:46 The Great Baddow hoard
2:41 Historical context of Iron Age Britain
3:56 Discovering the buried vessel
4:44 Theories on why the hoard was buried
6:28 Re-excavating the discovery site
7:20 Struck gold: finding two more coins
8:16 Comparing local Iron Age finds
9:50 What coins reveal about Iron Age society
11:34 Analysing the obverse and horse designs
14:39 Examining rare variant coins
16:57 The continental Gallic coin
18:13 Final theories on the hoard's origin
You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world-renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.
Get an exclusive release every week by signing up here: youtube.com/channel/UCZwU2G-KVl-P-O-B35chZOQ/join
History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™
#ironage #ancienthistory #ancientdiscovery
