HOARD
Unique ID: IARCH-204184
Workflow
status: Published 
Known as
Sea Mills
Quantity summary
- Coins in hoard: 24
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Coin chronology
Last ruler: Arcadius
Last Reece period: Period 21 Theodosian II (388-402)
Date from: AD 388
Date to: AD 395
Terminal reason: Date of latest coin
Coin summary
Download as CSV| Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROMAN | Constantine I | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | Trier | AD 322 | AD 325 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Constantine I | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | Trier | AD 330 | AD 335 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | House of Constantine | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 330 | AD 340 | 3 | |
| ROMAN | Theodora | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | Trier | AD 337 | AD 341 | 2 | |
| ROMAN | Constans | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 341 | AD 348 | 7 | |
| ROMAN | Constantius II | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 348 | AD 351 | 2 | |
| ROMAN | House of Constantine | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 348 | AD 361 | 2 | |
| ROMAN | Valens | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 364 | AD 378 | 4 | |
| ROMAN | Arcadius | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | AD 388 | AD 395 | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Uncertain - 4th century | Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) | - | - | - | 1 |
Coin data quality rating: Good (Grade 3)
Description
Robertson 2000, 363-364 no. 1495:
"During the excavation of a Roman settlement at Sea Mills: "the number of coins - 153 - too, is quite remarkable, when we consider that the trenches in which they were found covered only a fraction of the area of the whole field. They included a small hoard. The hoard comprised 24 coins, all found within a circle two feet in diameter. No fragments of a jar which might have contained the coins were found, so it is supposed that they were contained within a leathern pouch or cloth bag which rotted completely away and permitted the coins to become dispersed."
The coins were all AE:
AE
Constantine I 2
Constantinopolis 2
Urbs Roma 1
Theodora (after AD 337) 2
Constantius II, Aug. 3
Constans, Aug. 8
Valens 24
Arcadius 1
uncertain 1
24
(b.)
(1 b. FEL TEMP REPARATIO, falling horseman)
G.C. Boon, in Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc., LXVI (1945), 268, 285f., types, mints 24 coins in City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery"
Notes
Latest coin Arcadius VIC[...] Victory to left.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1945 - Monday 31st December 1945
Personal details
Other reference numbers
Legacy hoard number: 231
SMR reference number: Pastscape 198200
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
District: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Sea Mills
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Archaeological information
Background
This hoard comes from a known archaeological site.
The site has been excavated.
Archaeological context data quality: Poor
Site details
Site class: Urban
Site type: Settlement
Landscape and topography: Hill or mountain (base)
Site chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Sub period from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
References cited
- Boon, G.C., 1945 The Roman site at Sea Mills, 1945-46 Bristol: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 258-295
- Robertson, A.S., 2000 An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards London: 363-364 no. 1495
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