[2] Between 2019 and 2021 it was studied as part of the Knaresborough and Irchester Roman Hoards Project (KNIROH) at Newcastle University.

Recent research looked at several different antiquarian accounts of the discovery of the hoard and suggests that it was likely to have been found at Farnham, north of Knaresborough[1] in "The Bottoms" marsh.

In a 1876 lecture to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Rev Canon James Raine records that the finders brought the hoard "in a large sack" to Thomas Gott.

It can be dated to the very late 4th century or later on the basis of the iron spur and silver parallels of some of the vessel types in other Romano-British hoards.

Thomas Gott was an ironmonger and it is recorded that a "servant" accidentally melted down a number of Roman vessels after erroneously thinking that they were scrap metal.