The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels

The next major exhibition to open at the Museum of London is The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels. In 1912, an astonishing treasure of 400 jewels, unset gemstones and other precious objects was discovered under the cellar floor of a C17th house London by workmen during demolition work at 30-32 Cheapside, London.  The hoard was discovered buried under the floor and the reason for its burial remains a mystery. What the workman uncovered was the greatest hoard of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever found. The hoard constitutes the stock-in-trade of a working goldsmith; it contained finished and unfinished articles, loose gems and a variety of finished jewels.

Hat ornament in the form of a salamander: C16th-17th

Flexible family tickets (must include at least one child and one adult):
Family of up to 3 £22.50 (£19.50 without donation)
Family of up to 4 £30 (£26 without donation)
Family of up to 5 £37.50 (£32.50 without donation)
Family of up to 6 £45 (£39 without donation)

Reliquary cross of croisonne enamel: C16th - 17th

Adult: £10 (£9 without donation)

Concession/child: £8 (£7 without donation)
Box Office: 020 7001 9844 
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