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Museums in East Anglia. The Morley St Peter Hoard (including coins in the British Museum) and Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Angevin Coins, and later coins of the Norwich Mint.

The Morley St. Peter hoard of 883 late Saxon pennies was found on 27 January 1958. The discovery was clearly of the greatest importance, it attracted wide publicity, and summary accounts of the hoard and of the circumstances of its discovery in the side of a contractor's trench were swiftly published. The coins were in the hands of Norwich Museums some three hours after they were found. It was not known then that the preparation of a full account of the hoards would occupy several years and it could not be foreseen that circumstances would prevent the publication of a detailed inventory before the passage of some twenty years. It was then that the principle of publishing the hoard as a Sylloge volume was approved, a project which was later enlarged to include the collections of Norfolk and Suffolk as a whole. Morley St. Peter remains the only hoard of the period which is available for study in its entirety, and it contains the most extensive group of portrait coins of Edward the Elder so far known. The discussion in the present work is almost entirely devoted to this series, but it can be no more than a preliminary study of such an extraordinary group of coins and can only hint at the circumstances which may have led to the deposition of the hoard itself. Nor does it represent a corpus of coins of this type, although coins from other sources have been taken into account in the discussion and die-linking studies. 

Format: 189 pages; 52 plates; Cloth; Hardback.