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"237203","LON-2BC524","0014912BC5B0119C","Hoard","","","","","","","","1","","2008T412","IRON AGE","-75","-25","An Iron Age copper alloy potin hoard comprising 16 coins dating mid 1st century BC.  Potin 7.
Curator's report:
The Coins
All sixteen coins belong to a class of Iron Age coins known as 'Flat Linear I' potins. While the majority of Iron Age coins were produced by striking a gold, silver or bronze blank between a pair of dies, potins were instead cast in moulds and made from a lead/tin-rich bronze alloy. Although highly abstract, it is clear that their designs copied earlier types which depicted a human head and a butting bull, originally derived from the coinage of the Greek city of Massalia (Marseille, France). Flat Linear potins were produced in Kent and the south-east in the mid first century BC. The coins can be summarised as follows:


Flat Linear I potin; head right, bull right; Type VA 125
1. Weight: 1.35g			Registered as CCI 08.6287	 LON-2BCD30
2. Weight: 0.78g (broken)		Registered as CCI 08.6288	 LON-2BCFB2


Flat Linear I potin; head right, bull left; Type VA 129
3. Weight: 1.81g			Registered as CCI 08.6289	LON-2BBFD7
4. Weight: 1.99g			Registered as CCI 08.6290	LON-2BC802 
5. Weight: 1.68g			Registered as CCI 08.6291	LON-2BBD77
6. Weight: 1.74g			Registered as CCI 08.6292	LON-2BA693
7. Weight: 1.62g			Registered as CCI 08.6293	LON-2BC524
8. Weight: 1.86g			Registered as CCI 08.6294	LON-1AC785


Flat Linear I potin; head left, bull right; Type VA 131
9. Weight: 1.88g			Registered as CCI 08.6295	LON-1ACB41
10. Weight: 1.37g			Registered as CCI 08.6296	LON-875CB1 
11. Weight: 1.72g			Registered as CCI 08.6297	LON-2BC2B3
12. Weight: 1.48g			Registered as CCI 08.6298	LON-2BCAD5
13. Weight: 1.55g			Registered as CCI 08.6299	LON-2B8D52


Flat Linear I potin; head left, bull left; Type VA 133
14. Weight: 2.28g			Registered as CCI 08.6300	LON-1AB931


Flat Linear I potin; uncertain type (VA 125 etc)
15. Weight: 0.52g (broken)		Registered as CCI 08.6301	LON-2BD216
16. Weight: 0.38g (fragment)	Registered as CCI 08.6302	LON-2BDE91


VA = Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain, London, 1989
CCI = Celtic Coin Index, Oxford & London


Age, number, Metal
The present find easily satisfies the terms of the Treasure Act with regard to their age, metal and number. The coins are clearly more than 300 years old and there are more than ten base metal coins.


Of the same find?
The type and reported circumstances of discovery strongly suggest that these coins formed a single group at the time of their burial in antiquity.


Conclusion
I would conclude that the present coins should be regarded as a prima facie case of treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996).


Ian Leins, Department of Coins and Medals, The British Museum, 29 August 2008","","","2008-11-06 09:43:55","2011-03-08 18:48:00","4","","1","2008-06-14","","","","","5","1","1","1","1","","3","3","","ksumnall","Kate Sumnall","LON","ksumnall","Kate Sumnall","Copper alloy","","","","Cast","","Complete","Fair","Certain","IRON AGE","IRON AGE","","Metal detector","","Mr Ian Leins","","Mrs Kate Sumnall","GREATER LONDON","BRENTFORD","HOUNSLOW","","","","TQ1675","TQ5117","TQ17NE","","","","","","","From Map","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","319853","Davey-PotinNo7.jpg","images/ksumnall/",