Stones & Society

Collecting

Building collections with judgment: provenance, condition, documentation, care and the long view.

An enamelled gold necklace from the Cheapside Hoard at the V&A

Collecting

The Cheapside Hoard: London's Buried Treasure

In 1912 workmen at 30-32 Cheapside uncovered more than 400 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels, buried four centuries earlier. Most are now at the Museum of London, with pieces at the British Museum and the V&A.