Record ID: SOM-B5F8C8
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of three late Roman silver siliquae, one of which is cracked and another of which is broken into two pieces, with the remaining fragment still missing. All are very lightly clipped (clipping factor 1). One issued by Julian (AD 355-363), one by Valentinian I (AD 364-375) and one by Valentinian II (AD 375-392). 1 D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust, right VOT X / MVLT XX Legend within a wreath with eagle. PCONST RIC VIII, cf. no. 309 (Hoxne 107) …
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7FE6B8
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Addendum to 2017 T367, SOM-F5E4D4, ten nummi. Description of Find The additional group consist of ten copper alloy Roman coins dating between c. AD 348 and c. AD 361. Seven were issued by either Magnentius or Decentius (AD 350-353) and two were issued by Constantius II (AD 337-361). Summary by date and mint of new coins Trier Rome Uncertain Total 350-353 2 1 4 7 …
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-E188A5
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoard of six Roman silver denarii, as follows: A silver Roman Republican denarius, probably the type issued by the moneyers Gargonius, Ogul[nius] and Vergilius in 86 BC (Reece Period 1). Obverse: Worn but depicting laureate head, right. Reverse: Jupiter in a quadriga right. There is a possible banker’s mark “C” in the centre of the quadriga. Mint of Rome. As RRC p. 364, no. 350A/1 or /2. 16.1mm in diameter, weight 3.03g.  A silver Roman Republican denarius of L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, dating to the period 62 BC (Reece Period 1). Obverse: PAVLLVS LEPIDV[S…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Axminster CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-576419
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The hoard consists of two silver denarii of the second century AD. The first coin is a denarius of Trajan, dating to AD 103-111. There are some irregularities caused by wear in the perimeter of this coin and its faces are worn, but there is no major damage. The second is a denarius of Antoninus Pius dating to AD 140-143. This coin has a small chip at the 6 o'clock position and is slightly worn but is otherwise undamaged. Discussion: The lack of any other Roman material in this field or adjacent ones, the rarity of denarii in this area, the proximity of findspots and t…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whimple CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-99CBA4
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman coin hoard
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Petherton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-941D73
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of Find The coins were found on 12/11/2017 by metal detecting on cultivated land. The coins were found close together. No pottery or other material relating to a container was discovered. A scatter of Roman coins are known from the parish but no other Roman material has been reported to the PAS from this field. There is a note on the Somerset HER (ref: 43281) based on an OS record card of 1965 that: 'A gold follis of Valens, in mint condition, was found when ploughing. The coin has been incorporated into a brooch and is now in the possession of the finder's wife.' …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford Budville CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D31FA2
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
ILMINSTER, NEAR, SOMERSET 296 radiates, one denarius and one nummus to AD 297 Summary Reign radiates denarius nummus Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253-60) - Salonina 2 Gallienus (sole reign) (AD 260-8) 78 Salonina 6 Claudius II (AD 268-270) 68 Divus Claudius 3 Quintillus 5 Aurelian (AD 270-5) 18 1 …
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7344B7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2017 T57 - submitted for consideration as treasure BISHOPS LYDEARD, SOMERSET: 173 (up to) radiates to AD 274 Full report by Richard Abdy on file. Circumstances of discovery Found with the aid of a metal detector, 21st January 2017 (+ addenda in September 2017, marked *). Some radiates were found stuck together so the material here probably includes a debased radiate hoard amongst some site coins (hence 'up to' 173 radiates). Site coins include two fragmentary denarii (Trajan and Severus Alexander) and a worn and corroded dupondius of Trajan together with a sestertius of L…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Lydeard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B019D1
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2016 T959; disclaimed, returned to finder (But three coins donated to BM). Chaffcombe, Somerset 211 sestertii and lower denominations to AD 198 (+ 7 stray radiates / nummus) Summary (addenda coins marked *) sestertii and lower denominations: Claudian copy (mid 1stC), 1 ?Domitian (AD 81-96), 1 + 1* Trajan (AD 98-117), 3 + 3* Hadrian (AD 117-138), 9 + 6* Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), 5 + 7* Faustina I, 4* Marcus Caesar, 2 + 2* Faustina II, 1* Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), 8 + 13* Lucius Verus, 1* Marcus or Verus, 2* Faustina I…
Created on: Sunday 27th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chaffcombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-587138
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2016 T948: Disclaimed, returned to finder Report by Eleanor Ghey, British Museum Circumstances of discovery This hoard of Magnentian nummi was found on 8th November 2016 while metal-detecting on pasture. The coins were found together at 12-14 inches depth. Two ceramic body sherds were found nearby but are not definitely associated with the hoard and are very abraded (61.22g and 20.62g). They are of pale grey fabric with large quartz and flint ? inclusions and may be from a mortarium. One further illegible coin of first to third century date was found later 12 fe…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Petherton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F1847A
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Westbury-sub-Mendip hoard Contents: 189 silver denarii: Antony 32-31 BC, 10; Nero AD 54-68, 2; Galba AD 68-9, 1; Otho AD 69, 1; Vitellius AD 69, 2; Vespasian AD 69-79, 18; Titus Caesar, 3; Domitian Caesar, 1; Titus AD 79-81, 4; Domitian Caesar, 2; Domitian AD 81-96, 8; Nerva AD 96-8, 2; Trajan AD 98-117, 27; Hadrian AD 117-38, 32; Aelius, 1; Antoninus Pius AD 138-61, 29; Diva Faustina I, 13; Marcus Caesar, 4; Faustina II, 1; Marcus Aurelius AD 161-80, 9; Lucius Verus, 1; Divus Pius, 1; Faustina II, 6; Lucilla, 3; Diva Faustina II, 1; Commodus AD 180-92, 2; Crispina, 2; Pertinax A…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 29th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westbury sub Mendip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9F1577
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoard of 285 Roman coins dating to the period AD 270 - 402. The hoard comprises 3 radiates and 282 nummi. The coins were discovered using a metal detector in a field laid to grass which was regularly disturbed. They were removed from the field by the finder. The finder reports they were in a concentrated area 2 foot by 2 foot and within the topsoil. The topsoil is shallow at this point and very stony. Although the coins were in a concentrated area they were not in a discrete group, coins were separated from each other by soil and by stones suggesting some fairly strong disturbanc…
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 21st July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsdon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8D3931
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T520: Two coins donated to the British Museum, remainder disclaimed Circumstances of find Two groups of Roman coins were found on 21 July 2012 by three people detecting on ploughed farmland near Martock, Somerset. The finders excavated the groups at the time of finding and subsequently reported them to the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The coins (418 coins) from the two groups were bagged together and mixed before being handed in and so are catalogued together. The PAS and Somerset County Council Historic Environment Service were able to arrange re-excavation o…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8DC133
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2013 T73: Disclaimed and returned to finder Circumstances of Discovery: Found as a discrete group under a stone by [redacted] during a metal detector rally, 10.2.2013. Many other finders discovered Roman coins (and other artefacts) in the same field during the rally, but they seem to have been very mixed group of site coins probably representing an unrelated build-up of individual losses over centuries (from the 2nd to the end of the 4th centuries AD). These stray finds of Roman artefacts have been passed over to the Portable Antiquities Scheme for recording. D…
Created on: Monday 11th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3CCF55
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T760: Disclaimed and returned to finder Circumstances of discovery This small radiate hoard was found by [redacted] with the aid of a metal detector, on 28th October 2012. The finder initially found 2 pieces of twisted iron wire with 13 of the coins in a close concentration within a pasture field and, realising there were more coins in the group, he left them in the ground and called the local Finds Liaison Officer, Laura Burnett. On the 30th October 2012 Laura Burnett, PAS intern Alice Forward and Dr Richard Brunning of the Somerset Historic Environment Servi…
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woolavington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3B66F3
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T572, disclaimed returned to finder. Circumstances of discovery This small mid-Constantinian nummus hoard was found by Mr David Lee with the aid of a metal detector, between 21.2.12 and 25.07.2012. The coins were reported to have been at a depth of up to six inches and within an area of four square yards in a ploughed field. Disposition The coins were reported by the finder as being found scatted through the plough soil with no obvious concentration. The finder also stated that he has not found any other roman coins in the field and therefore the concent…
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Backwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-111833
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2011 T233: Acquired by the Museum of Somerset Circumstances of discovery Addenda to the 2010 find of a hoard of 61 siliqua and 1 half siliqua (2010 T278, SOM-6E89B0) was found on 1st March 2011 whilst metal-detecting on recently cultivated pasture.It was found in the same area as the original case. The coins were dispersed in an area of topsoil about 40 metres square, at the entrance to the field. Description of the find The current find consists of 11 silver siliquae, a number of which were fragmentary. The fragmentary examples have been checked against the frag…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Frome', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E21002
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2006 T355: Disclaimed and donated by landowner to the Museum of Somerset. Hoard of 2118 radiates, latest dated AD 298. Full report of Eleanor Ghey of the British Museum and extract of excavation report available on request, summary given here. Circumstances of discovery Found on 19th July 2006 by Context One Archaeological Services during excavations for Wessex Water. The hoard was found in the corner of a Roman period round house. It was partly contained within a pottery vessel and covered by a slate with some additional groups of coins in neat stacks around…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.