HOARD
Unique ID: IARCH-CF5D24
Workflow
status: Published 
Known as
Prescelly Mountain
Quantity summary
- Containers for the hoard: 1
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Coin chronology
Last ruler: Republic
Last Reece period: Period 1 Pre-Claudian and Iron Age (Pre AD 41)
Date from: 49 BC
Date to: 48 BC
Terminal reason: Incomplete information
Coin summary
Download as CSV| Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROMAN | Republic | Denarius (Roman Republic) | - | 49 BC | 48 BC | 1 |
Coin data quality rating: Poor (Grade 1)
Description
Robertson 2000, 2 no. 7:
""Discovery in Wales. Another correspondent of Sylvanus Urban speaks of the discovery of an urn full of coins on Precilly mountain in Carmarthenshire, over which the Roman road to St. David's passes. One of these coins is the very common denarius of the Julian family with the elephant. Reverse - the pontifical instruments."
J.Y.Akerman, in NJ, II (1838), 194, from Gent. Mag., 1837, II, 637
Including Julius Caesar"
Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard
Coins linked to this hoard
Unique ID:
IARCW-63DAF1FC9
Object type:
COIN
Broad period:
ROMAN
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1837 - Sunday 31st December 1837
Personal details
Other reference numbers
Legacy hoard number: 1759
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Pembrokeshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Pembrokeshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Prescelly Mountain
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Archaeological context
No archaeological context available.
References cited
- Guest, P. and Wells, N., 2007 Iron Age & Roman Coins from Wales Moneta: Wetteren no. 762
- Robertson, A.S., 2000 An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards London: 2 no. 7
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