HOARD

Only a sample studied.

A report on this find has been located from the Western Daily Press, Monday 05 March 1877 (below). Note conflicting end date.

ROMAN COINS. As some of the servants the Lowestoft Gas Company were the other day breaking up the ground about 2 1/2 foot in depth at the top of Howard Street, for the purpose of laying some of the company's pipes, one of them struck with his spade what he conceived to be an earthen pot, and from it "some old buttons," as the man termed it, at once came out. Calling his fellow-workmen see he had done, they gathered round and began to rub some of the dirt off the " buttons." Finding they presented a whitish appearance, they took some of them to a dealer in old coins, who gave them a 10-d a-piece for some half-dozen. The owner of the estate through which road was being made (Mr W. Seago) hearing of what had transpired, caused inquiry to be made, and the result has been that 14 of the coins have been secured, and prove to be of a highly interesting character. As far as they have at present been deciphered, one belongs to reign of the Emperor Domitian, AD 81; three to that Antoninus Pius, AD 138. ; one to that of Aurelius, AD 164 and another to that of Severus, AD 195. The vessel in which they were discovered is found to be specimen of pure Roman pottery, and is believed to have been a vase of considerable beauty. In the vase was also discovered an enamelled brooch, which most probably had adorned some Roman belle. "