The York Hoard is a

hoard A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

flint tools from

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

, North Yorkshire, England.

Discovery

The hoard was discovered in September 1868 by workmen digging for the Northern and Eastern Railway two miles from York, near Acomb. The discovery was reported to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in a lecture of 1869 by Edward Allen. Subsequent research by Jeffrey Radley reported that the hoard was located "near Holgate Beck, 400yds from its junction with the

Ouse Ouse may refer to: Places Rivers in England * River Ouse, Yorkshire * River Ouse, Sussex * River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia ** River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse Other places * Ouse, Tasmania, a town in Au ...

Contents of the hoard

Edward Allen reported that the workmen had found "14 to 20 axes, many spearheads, and at least a bushel of flakes". The worked flint tools were given to Charles Monkman of Malton, and the flakes were used as ballast for the train line. Allen acquired some of the axes and spearheads from one of the workmen. Twenty objects from the hoard remain in the collection of the

Yorkshire Museum The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy. History The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Soci ...

: 7 axeheads, 3 arrowheads, 9 spearheads, 3 scrapers, 11 blades and flakes, and 2 worked points.

Public display

The hoard was on public display in the Yorkshire Museum by 1881.

References

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External links

What is the York Hoard? (Google Arts and Culture)
1868 in England 1868 archaeological discoveries History of North Yorkshire Collections of the Yorkshire Museum Archaeological sites in North Yorkshire Neolithic England