HOARD
Unique ID: IARCH-46F339
Workflow
status: Published 
Known as
Mapledurham
Quantity summary
- Coins in hoard: 4
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Coin chronology
Last ruler: Hadrian
Last Reece period: Period 6 Hadrianic (117-138)
Date from: AD 125
Date to: AD 138
Terminal reason: Incomplete information
Coin summary
Download as CSV| Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROMAN | Claudius | As | - | AD 41 | AD 54 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Trajan | Dupondius | - | AD 98 | AD 117 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Hadrian | Dupondius | - | AD 117 | AD 138 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Hadrian | As | - | AD 125 | AD 128 | 1 |
Coin data quality rating: Fair (Grade 2)
Description
Robertson 2000, 29 no. 151:
""Part of a hoard dredged from the Thames immediately below Mapledurham lock in August 1910. The original quantity recovered was said to have been about a pint in volume. The [Reading] Museum possesses only four coins from this hoard."
These were 2 dup. and 2 Asses:
Dup. Asses TOTAL
Claudius 1 (b.) 1
Trajan 1 1
Hadrian 1 1
Hadrian (?) 1 1
2 2 4
G.C. Boon, in Oxon., XIX (1954), 39, some types
It is doubtful whether this was a hoard, in the strict sense."
Notes
There is said to have been about a pint in volume originally.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Reading Museum (part)
Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st August 1910 - Wednesday 31st August 1910
Personal details
Other reference numbers
Legacy hoard number: 1715
SMR reference number: Pastscape 241261
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
To be known as: Mapledurham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Archaeological context
No archaeological context available.
References cited
- Boon, G.C., 1954 Hoards of Roman Coins in the Reading Museum and Art Galler 39
- Robertson, A.S., 2000 An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards London: 29 no. 151
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