HOARD

Unique ID: IARCH-5C2D62

Workflow status: Published Find published

Known as

Mytholmroyd

Quantity summary

  • Coins in hoard: 597
  • Containers for the hoard: 1

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN

Coin chronology

Last ruler: Tetricus II
Last Reece period: Period 13 Gallienus sole reign to Aurelian (260-275)
Date from: AD 272
Date to: AD 274
Terminal reason: Date of latest coin


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Coin summary

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Period Ruler Denomination Mint From To Quantity
ROMAN Gordian III Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 238 AD 244 1
ROMAN Philip I Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 244 AD 249 1
ROMAN Trebonianus Gallus Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 251 AD 253 1
ROMAN Aemilian Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 253 AD 253 1
ROMAN Valerian I Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 253 AD 260 1
ROMAN Gallienus (Joint reign) Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 253 AD 260 7
ROMAN Salonina (joint reign) Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 253 AD 260 4
ROMAN Valerian II Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 253 AD 260 2
ROMAN Saloninus Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 253 AD 260 1
ROMAN Gallienus (sole reign) Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 260 AD 268 64
ROMAN Salonina (sole reign of Gallienus) Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 260 AD 268 8
ROMAN Claudius II Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 268 AD 270 49
ROMAN Quintillus Radiate (antoninianus) - AD 270 AD 270 1
ROMAN Postumus Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 260 AD 269 59
ROMAN Marius Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 269 AD 269 5
ROMAN Victorinus Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 269 AD 271 135
ROMAN Tetricus I Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 271 AD 274 129
ROMAN Tetricus II Radiate (antoninianus) Gallic mint AD 272 AD 274 75
ROMAN Uncertain Radiate (antoninianus) - - - 51
ROMAN Radiate (Barbarous) Radiate (antoninianus) - - - 2

Coin data quality rating: Fair (Grade 2)

Description

Robertson 2000, 135 no. 592:

""On October 1952, a find of 458 Roman coins was made at Scout Rocks, Scout Wood, Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The find was reported to the police and a subsequent search of the site by a police officer and the Deputy Director of the Halifax Museum produced a further 139 coins and fragments of Roman pottery. The pot has been restored by the Halifax Museum who acquired it."
The coins were 597 ant.:
Ant.
Gordian III 1
Philip I 1
Treb. Gallus 1
Aemilian 1
Valerian I 1
Gallienus 71
Salonina 12
Valerian II 2
Saloninus 1
Postumus 59
Marius 5
Victorinus 136(1 b.)
Claudius II 49
Quintillus 1
Tetricus I 129
Tetricus II 75
uncertain radiates 52(1 b.)

597
(7 joint reign)
(4 joint reign)
(deified)
-R.A.G. Carson, in NC, 1953, 140f., types, mints
533 coins in Bankfield Museum, Halifax, declared at an inquest to be of silver or silver alloy, along with the frags. of pot. As restored, the surviving part stands 7¾ in. high, with a diam. at the rim of about 7 in. The outbent rim, flattened on the inside, and the fabric - a hard, gritty dark grey ware, with some red patches resulting from uneven firing - indicate that the pot was of "Dales Ware", as described by J.P. Gillam, in Ant. J., XXI (1951), 154-64.
Examined, and pot drawn, 1958 (ASR)"

Notes

Carson gives RIC numbers but not mints - this has been left in summary form. 533 silver coins purchased by Halifax Museum and the 64 base metal coins and pot returned to the landowner.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Bankfield Museum, Halifax

Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard

  • Base Silver
  • Ceramic
  • Copper alloy

Containers linked to this hoard

Record ID: IARCH-1AE651
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 19th October 1952 - Thursday 23rd October 1952

Personal details

Recorded by: Dr Eleanor Ghey

Other reference numbers

Legacy hoard number: 81
SMR reference number: Pastscape 47729

Spatial metadata

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Calderdale (Metropolitan District)
District: Calderdale (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Mytholmroyd

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
General landuse: Woodland

Archaeological information

References cited

Audit data

Recording Institution: IARCH
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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