Unique ID: IARCH-F9BB57
Workflow status: Published
Manchester (Knott Mill)
Broad period: ROMAN
Last ruler: Valens
Last Reece period: Period 19 Valentinianic (364-378)
Date from: AD 364
Date to: AD 378
Terminal reason: Date of latest ruler/issuer
Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ROMAN | Sabina | Sestertius | - | - | - | 1 | |
ROMAN | Radiate (uncertain emperor) | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | - | - | 1 | |
ROMAN | Maximinus Daia | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 1 | |
ROMAN | Constantine I | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 28 | |
ROMAN | Constantine II | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 22 | |
ROMAN | Constantius II | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 387 | |
ROMAN | Fausta | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 1 | |
ROMAN | House of Constantine | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 330 | AD 341 | 16 | |
ROMAN | House of Constantine | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 335 | AD 341 | 195 | |
ROMAN | House of Constantine | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 337 | AD 361 | 866 | |
ROMAN | Julian | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 17 | |
ROMAN | Jovian | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 1 | |
ROMAN | House of Valentinian | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 62 | |
ROMAN | Uncertain - 4th century | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 57 |
Coin data quality rating: Fair (Grade 2)
Robertson 2000, 340 no. 1396:
""This was found about 1852 in digging the foundations of Knott Mill Railway Station, Castlefield, Manchester. Parts I and II describe the largest surviving section of the hoard, bought by the late Mr. Fielding Hodgson and now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Hodgson of Buxton. This section was handed to us for examination, in two parts - having become separated by accident; and the larger part (Part I) came into our hands a year later than the other."
Then came two lists, of 1235 "third brass", and of 343 brass - 1 "large brass" and 342 "small brass" - respectively.
"Part III [i.e. of Knott Mill hoard]. These coins were collected by an old lock-keeper of the canal at Castlefield. The bulk of them were found during the excavations made there for the South Junction Railway; others subsequently found in the neighbourhood were added. When the lock-keeper died, the coins passed to a broker from whom they were purchased in 1907 by W. Charlton, Esq., of Burnage House, Levenshulme, Manchester, who has kindly submitted them to us for report."
The lists of Parts I, II and III of the hoard are: Part I Part II Part II TOTAL
Sabina (?) 1 1
uncertain radiate (Claudius II?) 1 1
Maximinus Daza 1 1
Constantine I 25 3 28
Constantine II, Caes.(8), Aug. (2) 10 12 22
Constantius II, Caes. 4 12 2 18
Fausta 1 1
Constantinopolis 5 5
Urbs Roma 2 2
Constans, Caes. 4 4 1 9
Delmatius 1 1
Helena (after AD 337) 5 5 10
Constantine I (deified) 91 33 3 127
GLORIA EXERCITVS, 1 stand. 55 2 57
Constantius II, Aug. 271 91 17 379
Constans, Aug. 273 164 26 463
Constantius II or Constans Aug. 380 11 10 401
Constantius Gallus 2 2
Julian II 17 17
Jovian 1 1
Valentinian I 7 2 1 10
Valens 13 8 1 22
Valentinian I or Valens 30 30
uncertain 54 3 57
1253 343 69 1664 or 1665
(AE 1)
(??)
(ant.)
(Aug. 2)
-R.S. Conway, J. MacInnes and G.C. Brooke, "The Roman Coins of Manchester", appendix to F.A. Bruton, ed., The Roman Fort at Manchester (1909), 41-78, types, mints
All 1664/5 coins are in Manchester Museum.
In 1984, Dr. J.P.C. Kent, Keeper of Coins and Medals, BM, observed to ASR that the composition of this hoard is very like that of hoards from N. Africa.
"Forty one coins said to have been found at Castlefield in the making of the M.S. Junction and Altrincham Railway, about 1849-50; purchased by W. Charlton, Esq., J.P., Burnage House, Levenshulme, Manchester. It is quite probable that many of them came from the same source as those described above under Knott Mill Hoard, Part III."
The 41 coins were 1 ant. and 40 small AE:
Ant. AE
Claudius II 1
Constantine I 2
Constantine II, Caes. 2
Constantinopolis 1
Urbs Roma 1
Constans, Caes. 2
Constantine I (deified) 2 Constantius II, Aug. 14
Constans, Aug. 10
Valens 3
Gratian 1
uncertain 2
1 40
F.A. Bruton, Roman Fort at Manchester (1909), Appendix on The Roman Coins of Manchester, 98-101, types, mints; cp. R.W. Higginbottom, in G.D.B. Jones, Roman Manchester (1974), 137f.
41 coins in Manchester Museum
As it is uncertain which, if any, of these coins came from the Manchester (c. 1852) hoard, they have not been included in the list of coins from the hoard."
Current location of find: Manchester Museum
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 1852 - Friday 31st December 1852
Legacy hoard number: 1321
SMR reference number: Pastscape 76784
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
This hoard comes from a known archaeological site.
Site class: Military
Site type: Fort
Broad period: ROMAN