HOARD

De Jersey (2015) writes:

"A small scattered hoard which has generated considerable confusion in the literature. The first published record is Haselgrove (1984), who lists ten staters including four British Qa (ibid., 121), five Tincomarus (ibid., 125) and one Verica (ibid., 126), found c.1982. Shortly afterwards, Haselgrove (1987, 276 no. 15) amended the total to nine staters: two Qa, six Tincomarus and one Verica. Van Arsdell (1989a, 541 no. 87) has seven, based on the coins acquired by Hampshire County Museum Service (HCMS) in 1983 (see contents list, below), but also suggests that another four Tincomarus staters (one ABC 1058 and three ABC 1067) may have come from the same hoard (ibid., 548 no. 101).
The records in the BMHF are helpful in confirming the identity of the seven coins acquired by HCMS, and in adding a little more information about the circumstances of the discovery. Two staters - one of Tincomarus (ABC 1067) and the uninscribed British Q (ABC 485) - are said to have been found first, c.October 1980, though "not found together". The five later finds are said to have been spread out over
about 125 m2, and were discovered by a different finder, a metal-detecting policeman, c. April 1982.
The published accounts are complicated still further by Bean (2000, 275 no. 21), who dates the find to c.1977, and writes that "six [sic] coins certainly came from this deposit and have entered Andover Museum", but who goes on to list only three (one each of the Tincomarus types and the single Verica stater). He argues, almost certainly correctly, that the four additional Tincomarus staters mentioned by Van Arsdell should be ignored, and also queries whether the uninscribed stater genuinely belonged to the hoard, as it "was found some distance away on the other side of the modern road." The sources for Bean's information are not given and it seems wise to retain the seven coins recorded in the BMHF, and now in Andover Museum, as the basic record of the hoard, together with the dates of 1980 and 1982 for their discovery. There may of course have been strays from the hoard which have gone unrecorded."

Archaeological context

No archaeological context available.