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Record ID: IARCH-67DEF3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
"The East Holme hoard of 151 post-reform nummi was found on 25 September 1988 by S J Dereham while using a metal detector in a field on the south-west side of the village. Some pottery fragments were also recovered. The pottery fragments and coins were taken to the Dorset County Museum and were subsequently sent to the Ashmolean Museum for classification and cataloguing. The coins were heavily encrusted with a greenish deposit which made them virtually impossible to identify initially. They were subjected to a minimal cleaning treatment which rendered all but two of them legible but l…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Holme', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-137A88
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
33 silver denarii to Antoninus Pius, plus addenda of 10. TTRC 1994-95, 7; NC 1996, 110.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Stoke', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8D9AB1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
9 miliarenses and 653 siliquae to Honorius in a pot (not connected with denarius hoard from same parish). NC 2011. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T177 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: DOR-A1CCB1
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E36454
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 340 no. 1392: ""In the month of June, 1875, there was a singular discovery made of Roman coins and fictile vessels, in a meadow at the village of Horton, Dorset. Some boys, playing about the streamlet which rises on the north side of the meadow found in its bed a small vase and thirty or forty coins lying in the gravel. The news quickly spread among the peasantry, who, in expectation of finding a mine of wealth, lost no time in exploring the bed of the stream and thus eventually some hundred and forty coins and seven perfect vases, the produce of these unlicensed ex…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5B0D21
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 415 no. 1695 : ""About the year 1842 on digging the foundations of the new dining room at Leeson House, then the property of J.B. Garland, Esqr., a small earthenware pot was found full of 3rd. brass Roman coins." Authorities, from local inhabitants, named. Ordnance Survey Object Name-book, quoted in letter from O.G.S. Crawford, 24 Jan 1934; photocopy supplied, Nov. 1988, by R.N.R. Peers, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester Undated. Probably 3rd or 4th century AD"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6E9722
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A vase containing Roman coins of the third and fourth centuries A.D., including Constantine, Gallienus, Claudius, Gothicus, Posthumus and Carausius was ploughed up at Langton in 1817 ( Hutchins 1861, 560). The exact location of the find is unknown. It may be part of a hoard buried in time of crisis but never recovered.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8DC20A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
7 denarii to Antoninus Pius.TAR 2001, 185; NC 2003, 3. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2001 T041
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C8E91F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
4 silver IA staters, 3 denarii, 2 sestertii and 6 dupondii. NC 2011. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T404 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: PAS-6AA253
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-648E44
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 114 no. 497: ""In the year 1736, a labourer digging in the earth here accidentally struck his tool into a small Roman urn, and broke it to pieces: in which were contained about 20 small silver coins of the emperors Gallienus, Postumus and others: which coins, together with the fragments of the urn, were claimed by John Bankes Esq. then lord of the soil as treasure trove within the manor of Kingston Lacey." -J. Hutchins, Hist. and Ant. of Dorset (1774), II, 90"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pamphill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-23A735
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 215-216 no. 876: ""About the year 1850, an earthen jar was turned up by the plough in the middle of a field near the Knoll. In this process it was broken, and many coins of the emperors, Postumus &c. who reigned in the third century, were scattered, and are in the possession of various persons of the neighbourhood." -J. Hutchins, Hist. and Ant. of Dorset, 3 ed., II (1863), 769 -In 1913, Mrs. Mansel of Puncknoll presented 107 of these coins to Dorset County Museum, Dorchester. They were mostly free from corrosion, and showed very slight traces of wear. The 107 coi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puncknowle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AFE97C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 289 no. 1227: ""This hoard, which is believed to have consisted of some 7,500 coins in all, was said to have been discovered in North Dorset during 1985. Through the kindness of Mr Paul Munro Walker it was possible to examine two parcels amounting to 1836 coins, or a quarter of the total; the rest of the hoard had been sold on the Continent." The coins, all AE, comprised 1768 regular coins and 68 irregular copies. They were catalogued according to chronological periods, mints, and types. Rearranged according to emperors, etc., they were: Trier Ly. Ar. Rome Aq. Sis…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C85131
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 418 no. 1734: ""About 1200 coins were turned up by the ploughshare in the year 1791 in an arable field known by the name of Walls. They had been deposited in an earthen vessel the form of which was not discernible, being almost entirely decayed by time." J. Hutchins, Hist. and Ant. of Dorset, 3 ed., II (1863), 769 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puncknowle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FDDA7E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 236 no. 973: "On the site of a Roman temple or shrine (?) in "Walls" field: "So far thirty coins, significantly limited to the inner recessed area. The number joined by corrosion suggests the possibility of a disturbed hoard. They are mainly debased antoniniani covering the same period as the hoard found during the last century [no. 876]." -C.J. Bailey, in Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc., 87 (1965), 91 Undated. Late 3rd century AD"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puncknowle II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4FB6DC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 80 no. 380: ""Crock of Roman Coins found at Upwood Farm, near Handley A labouring man brought in to Mr. Carter the Silversmith today, 7th Augst. 1877, a quantity of Roman Coins. Frampton, the man, says that during the past week, whilst digging in an allotment garden near the Turnpike Road at Handley, he turned up with the prong some small pieces of broken pottery and several of the coins loose in the soil - he further noticed that these coins were only found over a very limited space of ground not more than two yards in area. This induced him to dig deeper over thi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Handley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E5952D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
45 AE to c. AD 161 (+ 5 later strays) Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2012 T765 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: DOR-8E9933; SOMDOR-A78F58; SOMDOR-E394B4; DOR-F13999
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DFBB0F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 264-266 no. 1112: ""In the same locality [i.e. within the parish of Tarrant Hinton] a low British barrow, about two feet in height, was examined at the instance of Mrs. Farquharson. 'The principal interment was a skeleton at full length in a cist cut in the chalk; by the side were the fragments of a rude urn, and it was protected by a cairn of flints. But the circumstance of most interest on this occasion was the discovery of a small Roman urn, filled with coins of Constantine, Constantius, and others of the same period; the hidden store of some Roman or Romano-Bri…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AB4DFB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 261 no. 1092 and Robertson 2000, 255 no. 1075A: ""Mr. F.A. Walters exhibited a series of 16 copper coins from a find in Dorset of the Constantine period, and struck in London between AD 321 and 324." -NC, 1904, Proc., 12".
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2E8AEF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 418 no. 1735: "27 May 1830 "Dr. Latham communicated to the Society the representation of a piece of silver, supposed to be a Coin; which was found in Dorsetshire, with a number of other Coins of the Roman Empire." Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XXXVI (1830-5), 51 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FAEF9F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Note a later hoard of coins was found in the same area as Chesil I by the same finder: Chesil II - 64 Constantinian nummi to AD 335 (catalogue by Claire Pinder). Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2003 T146
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chesil Beach II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C3995B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 303 no. 1258: "In 1917, the Arthur Hull Collection, Chard, Somerset, contained "seventeen 'third brass' coins of Constans, AD 333-350; found at Weymouth, 1863. With few exceptions these coins are as follows: Obv. D N CONSTANS P F AVG Bust to 1., holding globe Rev. FEL TEMP REPARATIO Helmeted soldier leading a young captive from the door of a hut." H. St.G. Gray, in Proc. Somerset Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc., LXIII (1917), 120 17 coins in Somerset County Museum, Taunton."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weymouth', grid reference and parish protected.