HOARD

Robertson 2000, 66 no. 319:

""Two amateur archaeologists following the course of a gas pipeline being laid through Buckinghamshire found a hoard of more than 280 first century Roman silver coins during the weekend.
Mr. Adrian Knight and Mr. Hedley Pengelly, both members of Bletchley Archaeological Society, were examining a ditch dug by mechanical excavators in a field next to the Roman Watling Street south of Bletchley when they found the coins. Other members of the society were called in yesterday and two more coins, and fragments of Roman pottery and an axe and arrowhead were uncovered.
Mr. Knight said yesterday: 'We have been following the course of the ditch for several weeks. We were walking along yesterday when I spotted one of the coins about three feet down. Then the others turned up just below the surface'."
-Daily Telegraph, 22 May 1967; SCMB, July 1967, 270
A coroner's inquest ruled that the coins - 294 in no. - were treasure trove. "Adrian Knight, aged 18, of Simpson, near Bletchley, told the inquest jury that he found 267 coins while following in the wake of mechanical excavators digging a trench for a natural gas pipeline in the field. A family doctor in Bletchley, Dr. Peter Jarvis, found 18 coins on the site, and Mr. Dennis Freeman, a lorry driver working on the site, found another nine..
Mr. Hedley Pengelly, a member of Bletchley archaeological and historical societies, said most of the coins had a bronze deposit on them - probably the remains of a container which had decomposed."
-Guardian, 8 June 1967; SCMB, Aug. 1967, 309f.
M.H. Crawford, in NC, 1969, 113-22, types of coins, described the find as "a hoard of 296 denarii [found] at the junction of Watling Street and Galley Lane, Bow Brickhill (near Bletchley), Bucks.", and listed the 296 den.:
Den.
Mark Antony 9
Nero 3
Galba 1 Vitellius 4
Vespasian 31
Titus 9
Domitian 18
Nerva 10
Trajan 45
Hadrian 57
Sabina 2
Antoninus Pius 40
Faustina I (deified) 16
Pius and Marcus 2
Marcus 24
Faustina II 11
Lucius Verus 5
Lucilla 4
Commodus 3
Crispina 2

296
(1 deified)
(5 under Vespasian)
(4 under Vespasian)
(1 under Hadrian, 2 deified)
(9 under Pius)
(6 under Pius, 1 deified)
(1 of AD 183)
5 coins in Dept. of Coins and Medals, BM, of Vespasian 1, Hadrian 1, Marcus (under Pius)1, Faustina II (under Marcus) 1, Commodus 1 (BM Register of Coin Accessions, 1968)
291 den. in Bucks. County Museum, Aylesbury"