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Recovered Hoard · Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands

The Grouville (Le Câtillon II) Hoard

The Grouville (Le Câtillon II) Hoard: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionBuried ~30 BC · found 2012 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

Two detectorists, Reg Mead and Richard Miles, chased a farmer's rumour of silver 'pieces' for thirty years before the signal finally came: a single fused mass of about seventy thousand Iron Age coins, gold torcs, and jewellery, the largest Celtic coin hoard ever found. Three decades of patience, one impossible afternoon.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: ~70,000 Celtic & Roman coins, the largest such hoard on earth

How it was found: Two detectorists, Reg Mead and Richard Miles, searched a single Jersey field for 30 years on a farmer's rumor of silver coins, and in 2012 finally hit a half-ton mass of Celtic coins and gold.

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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