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Record ID: IARCH-632AFA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 328 no. 1355: ""In 1943, 90 coins, nearly all 3AE of Constantius II with reverse FEL TEMP REPARATIO, were found by Ian Ellis within the inner and the outer rampart near the north-west corner of the Iron Age camp at Poundbury, rather less than a mile north-west of the centre of Dorchester [...]. The coins were stuck together on the under-side of a flat stone in spoil mechanically excavated in 1940 when the face of the inner rampart on the west and south sides of the camp was scarped to render it tank-proof in the event of an invasion. In 1940 or 1941, a coin of ident…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poundbury Camp', 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.