St Leonard's Place hoard

The St Leonard's Place hoard was discovered on 23 April 1842 by workmen digging a drain during the construction of the De Grey Rooms on the street St Leonard's Place in York, England.

[1][2] One of the workmen said that the hoard had been contained in a clay vessel, which was broken when a pickaxe struck it.

[1] It is estimated that the hoard contained c. 10,000 stycas, a type of early medieval Northumbrian coin.

[1] It contained both silver-alloy and copper-alloy stycas, and a listing from the Journal of the British Archaeological Association in 1846 includes coins of the kings Eanred, Aethelred II, Redwulf and Osberht, as well as those of the archbishops Eanbald, Wigmund and Wulfhere.

[5] Despite the work of numismatist Elizabeth Pirie in identifying coins from the hoard, not all of them can be differentiated from the museum's wider collection today.