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Record ID: IARCH-FD4791
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 312 no. 1286: ""As far back as 1829, Dr. Fox of Brislington presented to the Bristol Philosophical Institution a series of 23 Roman copper coins of the same period as those which have recently come to light [i.e. the coins ranging from Victorinus to Constans found in the excavation of the Roman villa at Brislington], part of the metallic urn in which they were found and six pieces of Roman pottery. They were found on his Brislington estate about a mile to the east of this villa and they are still in the Bristol Museum to which they were transferred from the Philosophi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brislington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8AEDD3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 196-7 no. 808: ""5 Nov. 1869. Exhibited "by Mr. J.F. Nicholls:- A remarkable hoard of Roman brass coins, as believed, of Carausius, Allectus, and other emperors of the fourth century (minimi), found in June, 1869, in an urn at Philwood, two miles from the camp of Mares [sic] Knoll, near Bristol. About 800 of these diminutive pieces were obtained; on some of them letters may be distinguished, but no perfect devices: with these were found about 200 larger brass coins of Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Faustina, and Gallienus, in defaced condition." -AJ, XXVII (1870)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Filwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2E3D45
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 44 no. 215: ""A hoard of 598 denarii down to AD 155 is recorded." Britannia, XVIII (1987), 343; from A.M. Burnett "The hoard of 598 silver coins of the Roman Empire was found in the front garden of a house in March 1986. At an inquest held in Bristol on 1 July 1986 the coins were declared Treasure Trove. 568 of the coins have since been acquired by the Bristol Museum; the remaining 30 were acquired by the British Museum. The coins were discovered underneath a sandstone slab, possibly a Roman roof tile, which had apparently been placed over them deliberately. Alth…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lawrence Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-204184
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 363-364 no. 1495: "During the excavation of a Roman settlement at Sea Mills: "the number of coins - 153 - too, is quite remarkable, when we consider that the trenches in which they were found covered only a fraction of the area of the whole field. They included a small hoard. The hoard comprised 24 coins, all found within a circle two feet in diameter. No fragments of a jar which might have contained the coins were found, so it is supposed that they were contained within a leathern pouch or cloth bag which rotted completely away and permitted the coins to become dis…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sea Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1F362A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 8 no. 33: ""Coins marked with an asterisk in this list seem to have been a hoard or part of a hoard. Patination is identical and is distinctive. In a few cases impressions of lettering, etc., from one coin appear in the patina of another. They were all collected by the late A. Selley, Esq., 1920-3, except for no. 24 labelled as found in 1935. It will be observed that the coins are all genuine, or (with one Grade II copy) Grade I imitations." The coins from the hoard were all dup. and Asses: Dup. Asses Agrippa 5 Claudius 1(b.) 9(3 b.) Antonia 1(b.) G.C. Boon, i…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sea Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C32BC5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 261-262 no. 1095: ""In the year 1875, in the suburb of Easton, on the site of iter XIIII leading to Bath, some labourers, engaged in laying water pipes dug up a hoard so numerous that they shared the coins by the double handsful instead of counting them, and bore their prizes away in three bowler hats filled to the brim." Then came a list of 732 ant., and folles, from Gallienus to Crispus. "None of them have ever apparently been used for currency, and they were probably hidden about AD 336." -J.F. Nicholls and J. Taylor, Bristol Past and Present (1881), I, 24f. …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Easton)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DD946A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 326 no. 1350A: ""The City Museum, Bristol, recently acquired by the gift of Mr. Cedric Pritchard, a collection of 55 Roman coins which had belonged to his father, the Bristol antiquary J.E. Pritchard, F.S.A. The coins are marked 'Blaise Castle', 'Blaise Hill', or, in a few cases, 'Blaise Hill, June 1819'. A few can in fact be identified with specimens in Seyer's list (1821, I, pp. 157-158)..... There is thus no reason to question the provenance, although it is possible that some of the coins ... may be intrusive. The number of Ae2 of the period 346-353 is interesting; mos…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blaise Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-127F03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 269 no. 1125: "In 1949, during the excavation of the Roman villa at Kingweston: "The hoard of six coins found in the rubble overlying the floor of Room IV provides a terminus ante quem for this room and No. III which are structurally connected. The coins were struck AD 330-337, and none is more than slightly worn, thus suggesting a deposition by c. AD 340. It is extremely unlikely that the room was in ruins at this time, and if the coins had been hidden very much later than the death of Constantine they would surely have included pieces struck under later emperors,…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Kingweston Villa)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7AA7E8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 287 no. 1222: "In City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, two groups of 6 and 7 coins respectively, "from the 8 1/4 acre site at Sea Mills". The group of 6 coins was presented in 1934 by D. Hayward, and had the description "found together near eastern hedge of field". The group of 7 coins was presented by W.H. Cox, also in 1934. The two groups of coins, all AE, may possibly have come from a scattered hoard: Hayward Cox TOTAL Constantine I 1 1 Constantine II, Caes. 1 1 Constantius II, Caes. 1 1 Constantine II, or Constantius II, Caes. 1 1 Constantinopolis 2 1…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-5046B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 279 no. 1174: ""Roman coin hoard - Ashton Vale On 19th June one of the machine drivers on my Chelmsford excavations informed me of a number of archaeological finds he had made over the course of many years, including a coin hoard from Ashton Vale. He has some of the coins in his possession and I have attempted to extract a description of the site from him.. The site location is vague, but I took down what the man said: 'stand with your back to Bristol Aircraft Factory in Ashton Vale; walk towards Bedminister White Horse; about half way there are buildings on the …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Ashton Vale)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EC691A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 82 no. 385: ""On July 28, 1937, a hoard of 1478 silver and 2 copper coins was found in Rochester Road, St. Anne's, Bristol, in a pit that was being dug for a garage. No trace of any container could be found, though careful search was made. There is every reason for thinking that the whole of the original hoard was recovered." -H. Mattingly and B.W. Pearce, in NC, 1938, 85-98, types The coins were 1476 den., 2 silver drachmae, and 2 AE: AR AE Mark Antony 60 Nero 10 Galba 5 Otho 1 Vitellius 7 Vespasian 162 Titus 27 Domitian 27 Nerva 9 Trajan 103 Hadrian …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Rochester Road)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4E1929
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 422 no. 1798: ""At all the above stations [i.e. Hanham, Netherways, Westbury, Blaize Castle and Saymills], as well as in the pomerium of the Old City, at the Broad Weir, Clifton, etc., causeways, Roman remains, pigs of lead, glass vessels, and coins of nearly every emperor, down to the evacuation of Britain, have been found. Last year, a rude vase with above 1000 coins was accidentally discovered on the Somersetshire side of Bristol." J.F. Nicholls, in AJ, XXVII (1870), 65 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1D2681
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 389-390 no. 1578: ""Of the provenance of the hoard it is impossible to say more than that according to my own traditional information [i.e. from the writer's father, Sir John Evans] it was found in the North Mendip region not far from Bristol. " The coins were 31 mil., 2003 sil., and 10 half-sil.: Mil. Sil. Half-sil. TOTAL Constantius II 8 186 194 Constans 1 1 Constantius Gallus 1 1 Julian II 1 456 457 Jovian 1 15 16 Valentinian I 5 57 62 Valens 4 296 300 Procopius 2 2 Gratian 4 233 3 240 Valentinian II 3 255 1 259 Theodosius 2 175 1 178 Magnus Maximu…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (North Mendip)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-89CE75
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 145 no. 648: "In 1962, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery acquired 42 antoniniani, of which "41 appear to be of Tetricus I and the remaining example, damaged, could be Tetricus I or Victorinus. These are stated to have been found in a tin box on the site of a building at St. Paul's, Bristol, after there had been a fire. Of course, this could hardly have been their ultimate provenance. In our view there can be no doubt that they are part of a hoard because all the coins are in a similar condition. About eighteen months ago this Museum undertook a small excavation at Wh…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (?)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5FDDC4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 195 no. 804: ""A hoard of 323 coins which was acquired some years ago by Sir Arthur Evans at Bristol, and was in all probability found in that district, has recently been deposited in the Ashmolean Museum. With the exception of six official third-century issues, this hoard consists entirely of radiate minimi; with it are two pieces of metal, one a rough lump and the other a thin fragment of broken sheet-metal. The Bristol coins are about 9-10 mm. [in diameter] and falling as low as 6.5 mm." The regular radiates were Victorinus 3, Tetricus II 2, uncertain 1. -C.H.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol', grid reference and parish protected.