Cirencester YAC
Cirencester YAC is open to everyone aged 8–16 years. YAC clubs get involved in all sorts of activities, including visiting and investigating archaeological sites and historic places, trying out traditional crafts, taking part in excavations, and lots more.
Cirencester YAC is based at Corinium Museum. The club usually meets once a month. It is an affiliated club of the YAC network, and is YAC is run by Corinium Museum staff and volunteers.
If you’d like to get involved with Cirencester YAC, or find out more about how the club is run, get in touch with the team using the details below:
Contact: Michaela Lennox
Tel: 01285 655611
Email: michaela.lennox@freedom-leisure.co.uk
Corinium Museum, the home of Cirencester YAC.
Cirencester YAC is grateful for support from the Friends of Corinium Museum.
News from Cirencester YAC
April 2026 – Iron Age Coin Hoard!
This month we took inspiration from an Iron Age coin hoard with votives that the Corinium Museum recently purchased through the Portable Anitquities Scheme for our session. We started off with a lengthy discussion about treasure and what it needs to be declared such. We considered how old something needed to be, if it had to be made out of a particular material, how unique, and much else besides. We then had a look at a number of objects at the museum and decide whether we thought they should be declared treasure or not, and we were surprised how widely they thought the term should be applied.
After a short break we introduced the coins and started off with some object handling involving some coin moulds from the nearby tribal capital of Bagendon which was a big coin minting centre in the Late Iron Age. We then looked at some highlights from the 150 coins found in the hoard, and looked at how they were made and how different they all were. We focussed mainly on the three-tailed horse and the very Picasso-esque face found on the coins. Lastly we split into groups and had a go at drawing some complicated designs in a shortening space of time to see how quickly these elements got lost or changed or were reinterpreted over time.
Next time, Roman buildings!
