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HOARD

Unique ID: IARCH-116E47

Workflow status: Published Find published

Known as

Hereford
Also known as: Hunderton

Quantity summary

  • Coins in hoard: 8

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN

Coin chronology

Last ruler: House of Constantine
Last Reece period: Period 17 Constantinian II (330-348)
Date from: AD 341
Date to: AD 348
Terminal reason: Date uncertain or disputed

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Coin summary

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Period Ruler Denomination Mint From To Quantity
ROMAN Divus Claudius (Official) Radiate (antoninianus) - - - 1
ROMAN Tetricus I Radiate (antoninianus) - - - 1
ROMAN House of Constantine Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) - AD 330 AD 335 2
ROMAN House of Constantine Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) - AD 337 AD 341 1
ROMAN House of Constantine Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) - AD 330 AD 341 1
ROMAN House of Constantine Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) - AD 341 AD 348 1
ROMAN Arcadius Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) - - - 1

Coin data quality rating: Fair (Grade 2)

Description

Robertson 2000, 362-363 no. 1492:

""Inventory 3-10 A small hoard dug up in the garden of 40 Merryhill Crescent, Hunderton, Hereford, in 1953 [...] 7420"
Then came a list of 8 coins, 2 ant. and 6 AE:
Ant. AE
Claudius II (deified) 1
Tetricus I 1
Constantine I 1
Constantius II, Caes. 1
Constantinopolis 1
Theodora (after AD 337) 1
Constans, Aug. 1
Arcadius 1

2 6
(GLORIA EXERCITVS, 2 stand.)
(GLORIA EXERCITVS, 2 stand.)
(VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN)
(rev. illegible)
M. Rhodes, Hereford City Museum, Microfiche M5 at end of R. Shoesmith, Hereford City Excavations, 3, The Finds CBA Research Rep., 56 (1985)
The composition of the group of 8 coins seems unusual for a hoard."

Notes

This seems more like a Constantinian hoard than a Theodosian one, if it is a hoard at all.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Hereford City Museum

Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard

  • Copper alloy

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 1953 - Thursday 31st December 1953

Personal details

Recorded by: Dr Eleanor Ghey

Other reference numbers

Legacy hoard number: 914
SMR reference number: Pastscape 110227
Museum accession number: 7420

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Hereford

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Gardening
General landuse: Other
Specific landuse: Garden

Archaeological context

No archaeological context available.

References cited

Audit data

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

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