HOARD

Robertson 2000, 29 no. 147:

""In August, 1856, a vase, containing a hundred denarii, was discovered at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', Lancaster. They were of the higher empire, the latest being of the time of Trajan."
C. Hardwick, Hist. of Preston (1857), 49
"On August 15th, 1856, a workman engaged in cutting away the embankment at the bottom of Bridge Lane, at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', to make way for some new cottages then about being erected by Mr. Thomas Harrison, came upon a hoard of about 100 denarii, all of the time of the higher empire, which were quickly dispersed, but fourteen of them were subsequently secured by Mr. Dalzell."
W.J. Watkin, Roman Lancashire (1886), 188
Almost a century later, there became available for study, through Dr. S. Penney, Lancaster City Museum, a Ms. Catalogue of Ancient Roman and Grecian Coins. In the Cabinet of Thomas Hy. Dalzell, and a Ms. Catalogue of Coins in the Mechanics Institute, by C. Barrow. Dalzell's cabinet A, Tray 7, contained coins found in Lancaster, including 14 denarii. "These fourteen denarii were all found in a pot in Bridge Lane, Lancaster, on the 15th of August 1856 along with 86 more by a workman Benjamin Dockray. T.H. Dalzell purchased a quantity of them and the pot they were found in." There were descriptions of the 14 den.: Republic 3; Mark Antony 1; Galba 1; Vespasian 5 (1 deified); Titus 2; Trajan 1; Hadrian 1, COS II, AD 118.
Barrow's Ms. catalogue included descriptions of 1 Republican den. ("found at foot Weary [sic] Wall, Lancaster, 7 m. 56"), and 4 den. of Vespasian ("These four found in a box with many more in digging at foot of Weary Wall by the Old Bridge at Lancaster, 7 month, 1856")
Since the earliest account, by Hardwick, referred to a "vase" as the container of the hoard, and Dalzell bought 14 den. and a "pot" in which they were found, it must be concluded that Barrow was mistaken in stating that the coins were found in a "box".
In Lancaster City Museum, 9 out of Dalzell's 14 den., and 2 out of Barrow's 5 den.
Dalzell Barrow TOTAL
Den. Den. Den.
Republic 3 (1) 1 4
Mark Antony 1 (1) 1 Galba 1 (1) 1
Vespasian 5 (1 deified) (2) 4 (2) 9
Titus 2 (2) 2
Trajan 1 (1) 1
Hadrian 1 (1) 1

14 (9) 5 (2) 19 (11)
(1 deified)
Cp. D.C.A. Shotter, in Contrebis, 5 (1977), 25, types; and in CH IV (1978), 33, no. 111, and 44f., no. 111, types
Examined, 1978 (ASR)"