Record ID: BM-7D34D9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The hoard consists of 23 silver miliarenses, 137 silver siliquae and one copper alloy nummus. The siliqua was the main silver denomination of the late Roman period and the miliarensis was double this denomination. Thesewere among the last silver coins minted in the western Roman cities of the Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth century but continued to circulate after the collapse of Roman rule over Britain in AD 410. The silver coins listed span the period AD 337-402, ending, as is common with hoards of this date, with siliquae of Arcadius and Honorius dated to AD 395-402…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vale of Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-416D5C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A dispersed hoard of 34 copper alloy Roman nummi of the House of Constantine (AD 330-341). The coins have not been cleaned and many are not fully legible due to corrosion and dirt. Conclusion: The coins represent a dispersed hoard of Roman copper alloy coins. They constitute an archaeologically associated group which are over 300 years old, comprise more than ten items which were likely originally deposited together, and they therefore meet the definition of Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996). Catalogue: AD 330‒335 (13) Trier (4) …
Created on: Thursday 5th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-4A1E86
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find comprises two Iron Age gold coins, both Eastern British Iron Age uninscribed staters of Whaddon Chase / British LB type issued in the North Thames area in about 60 - 20 BC. The coins can be summarised as: Uninscribed Eastern British Iron Age stater (ABC 2442, BMC 331) Obverse: Abstract crossed wreaths. Reverse: Horse, right; below, wheel. Weight: 5.63g. Uninscribed Eastern British Iron Age stater (ABC 2442, BMC 331) Obverse: Abstract crossed wreaths. Reverse: Horse, right; below, wheel. Weight: 5.66g. ABC = Cottam et al, Ancient British Coinage, Aylsham…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: IARCH-305B9B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Associated artefacts with late third century hoard IARCH-55A686 Robertson 2000, 170-171 no. 732: ""In November 1937 during the widening of a road between Amlwch and Bull Bay, Anglesey, a hoard of 422 coins - two of them broken halves - and two rings (silver) was found lying in the ground underneath a stone."[...]-H. Mattingly and J.W.E. Pearce, in BBCS, IX (1937-9), 167-87, 378, types -422 coins and 2 finger-rings in NMW, Cardiff. The larger of the two rings, 7/8 in. in diam., is of bronze, silver-coated. It has been a complete hoop, but is now cut through at one point, and is …
Created on: Monday 21st November 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amlwch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3049F0
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Associated artefact with late third century hoard IARCH-55A686 Robertson 2000, 170-171 no. 732: ""On the same authority we can now record that a small ingot, apparently of silver, 2 inches long, and weighing 442 gr. was found with the coins." -H. Mattingly and J.W.E. Pearce, in BBCS, IX (1937-9), 167-87, 378, types"
Created on: Monday 21st November 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amlwch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5D81C9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold roman finger ring with sardonyx intaglio featuring lion walking right, possibly found with Llangynog hoard Robertson 2000, 119 no. 526: "The "gold article" may be the gold ring figured by J.R.A. in Arch. Camb., 45 (1890), 155: "The Roman ring was found under a stone called Bwrdd-y-Gwlltiadd, between Cwmllwch and Blaen-cwm-Pennant, Melangell, in the year 1824, together with two brass coins of the Emperors Caius Victorinus and Gallienus (AD 260-8). It was shown to Mr. Franks of the British Museum, who pronounced it to be undoubtedly of Roman workmanship. The peculiarity of t…
Created on: Friday 11th November 2016
Last updated: Friday 11th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llangynog', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-89772D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper quernstone of unknown date, probably Roman, found covering a Roman coin hoard IARCH-38E5EC.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vaynol', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5643EC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for the Linchmere hoard (see IARCH-BB896B). Robertson 2000, 210-211 no. 861: ""The flask is just over 8 in. high, and is of hard grey ware, complete but broken and pieced together. Near the base is a slight indentation, and the upper half, including the inside of the lip, is covered with a thin white slip. The base is plain and flat, and there are wheel-marks round the body, but no ornament. The lip is turned over, and the neck has a sharp moulding. In the hoard were also a few fragments of pottery, including a piece of thin grey ware, with two zones of wavy pattern inci…
Created on: Monday 8th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Linchmere', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-06686A
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone Collyweston roof tile used as a lid for the pot containing the third century Irchester hoard, IARCH-1E2065. No further details.
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Irchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DC7EAB
Object type: BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for hoard IARCH-ECCBBD Robertson 2000, 165-166 no. 717: ""The hoard was discovered on the site of a Romano-British village during gravel-digging in the summer of 1958 at Great Chessells..., near Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Below the rough stone paving of the courtyard of a small house a neat rectangular hole was found cut in the gravel to take a wooden box measuring 3 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in., from which bronze knobs, angle brackets and nails were recovered. The size of the box suggests that it may have originally contained many more than the 134 coins discovered and t…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lower Slaughter', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C2B625
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for a small Theodosian hoard from Corinium. Robertson 2000, ~~356-357 no. 1464: ""Whilst rearranging the contents of the Corinium Museum for the Cirencester Urban District Council in October 1947, I [i.e. Lady Fox] found that one of the coarse pots contained a small packet of coins. The accession number B 1471 showed that the vessel was part of the late Lord Bathurst's collection, made up of Roman objects found in Cirencester in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No special find-place was entered in the register, but the coins were there recorded as bei…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cirencester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-835696
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for the St Michael Caerhays hoard IARCH-1A9E26 Robertson 2000, 174-175 no. 742: ""The vessel proves to be of almost pure tin, namely, 97 per cent, of that metal, with three parts only of lead. In form it has been described as resembling a claret jug, with a short neck the upper part of the neck, the mouth, and also the handle had perished; the aperture at the neck had been closed by a plug of wood, which had decayed. The vessel in its present state weighs 3 lb 13 oz. When brought to Mr. Williams, the vessel, which may be described as a capis, was about two-thirds full…
Created on: Friday 29th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Michael Carhayes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-0B7526
Object type: ARM PURSE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy arm-purse, container for hoard IARCH-21DCCB. Robertson 2000, 26-27 no. 137: "J. Fairless, in NJ, loc. cit.; J. Fenwick, Treasure Trove in Northumberland (1851), 39-58; J. Collingwood Bruce, Roman Wall (1851), 434f.; (1853), 416-26, and (1867), 419-23; Bruce, The Thorngrafton Find (1871); and J. Clayton, in AA, n.s., III (1859), 269-76, all gave an illustration of the "copper vessel" which contained the coins. It was a bronze arm-purse, with a cover, 2 3/8 in. high, and 4 1/8 in. wide. With the handle, the purse was 4 1/2 in. high. One of two bronze purses, now in C…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorngrafton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CD3427
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver ingot, part of hoard IARCH-627C8C. Robertson 2000, 403 no. 1619: ""~~There was also, it is said, a silver Plate with an Inscription, which would perhaps have thrown Light on the time & occasion of depositing the Treasure; but Mr. Ibbetson had unfortunately been disappointed in his Endeavours to get a Sight of it." Hon. D. Barrington: Letter from John Ibbetson, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XVII (1780-1), 438-41 Camden and Gough's Britannia (1789), II, 30f. and pl. showing ingot, gave the number of gold coins in the hoard as almost 50 ranging from "Constantine jun." to Hono…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CD2A1F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring, part of hoard IARCH-627C8C. Robertson 2000, 403 no. 1619: ""The other Ring is also Gold, ornamented with a Sort of Fret-work, & enclosing a dark blue unpolish'd Pebble, on which are engraven a large Eagle, supporting two smaller ones on her Back, whilst she herself is assaulting a Quadruped, wch, upon the most accurate Inspection, he conceives to be an Hare." Hon. D. Barrington: Letter from John Ibbetson, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XVII (1780-1), 438-41 M. Henig, Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites, BAR 8, I (1974), gave Honorius as the late…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CD16D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring, part of hoard IARCH-627C8C. Robertson 2000, 403 no. 1619: ""One of the Rings is plain Gold, very broad, without any stone; but thicker & flatter on the upper part, on which are engraven two Heads, apparently of different Sexes. It has no Inscription.." Hon. D. Barrington: Letter from John Ibbetson, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XVII (1780-1), 438-41 M. Henig, Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites, BAR 8, I (1974), gave Honorius as the latest coin in the hoard, and described the two gold rings, i, 92, no. 703; and 102, no. 791: "[...] Two facing…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CCF55F
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold bracelet, part of hoard IARCH-627C8C. Robertson 2000, 403 no. 1619: ""The Bracelet is composed of two Bars of Gold; each, in its greatest diameter, of the size of a very small Quill. They are closely interwoven, & taper gradually to the Extremities, one of which is beaten flat, & perforated, so as to admit a small Fibula or Button, which is annex'd to the other. The Bracelet is elastic, bright, & appears to be of pure Gold." Hon. D. Barrington: Letter from John Ibbetson, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XVII (1780-1), 438-41"
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CB5583
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver ingot found with three gold coins dating to AD 404-408 at the Tower of London in 1777. Part of hoard IARCH-398128. Robertson 2000, 386 no. 1565:"29 Jan. 1778 "The piece of silver, in the form of a double wedge, is 4 inches long, 2 inches and 3/4 broad in the broadest part, 1 3/4 in the narrowest, and 3/8 of an inch thick in the middle. It was probably cast at first in a square or oblong form, but has since been beaten into a broader super-ficies, and sharpened towards the extremities, where the strokes of the hammer are plainly visible. In the center of its area is impre…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B781CA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Poole
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for the Poole (1930) hoard IARCH-9C0FE5. Robertson 2000, 165 no. 715 writes "The pot had been a cooking pot of hard dark grey-black ware with a slightly polished surface, but the upper part was missing when the hoard was found. The surviving part is 3½ in. wide and 6 in. high. Examined, and pot drawn, 1938 (ASR)"
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poole', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-0F5B8C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Container for the Hayle hoard. Robertson 2000, 191-192 no. 790: "The copper vessel and 120 of the coins were deposited in the Museum of the Penzance Antiquarian and Natural History Society, and 41 more coins in the County Museum, Truro. The vessel and 161 coins were examined by Dr. C.H.V. Sutherland. He described the vessel as now resembling a bowl in shape, with a pronounced in-turned lip, but it had been severely damaged, and may originally have been a jug, the neck having possibly been torn away. The greatest diameter of the body was 7 in., and the depth 3¾ in... C.H.V. Sutherland…
Created on: Wednesday 29th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hayle', grid reference and parish protected.