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Record ID: IARCH-305B9B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Associated artefacts with late third century hoard IARCH-55A686 Robertson 2000, 170-171 no. 732: ""In November 1937 during the widening of a road between Amlwch and Bull Bay, Anglesey, a hoard of 422 coins - two of them broken halves - and two rings (silver) was found lying in the ground underneath a stone."[...]-H. Mattingly and J.W.E. Pearce, in BBCS, IX (1937-9), 167-87, 378, types -422 coins and 2 finger-rings in NMW, Cardiff. The larger of the two rings, 7/8 in. in diam., is of bronze, silver-coated. It has been a complete hoop, but is now cut through at one point, and is …
Created on: Monday 21st November 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amlwch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3049F0
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Associated artefact with late third century hoard IARCH-55A686 Robertson 2000, 170-171 no. 732: ""On the same authority we can now record that a small ingot, apparently of silver, 2 inches long, and weighing 442 gr. was found with the coins." -H. Mattingly and J.W.E. Pearce, in BBCS, IX (1937-9), 167-87, 378, types"
Created on: Monday 21st November 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amlwch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9914CC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
In late 1930s, Meyrick undertook small-scale excavation at Twyn y Parc promontory fort on Anglesey, just inside rampart on NE side. Finds incl. a sherd of mortarium, an iron spearhead, & a group of late 3rd & early 4th C. coins referred to as a hoard. Hughes, H.H. 1939. Twyn y Parc. Archaeol. Cambrensis 94: 98-9 (mortarium only).
Created on: Wednesday 16th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Twyn y Parc', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-98EC35
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Excavs. As part of the A55 road scheme revealed BA funerary & ceremonial complex, & a LIA & R-B settlement of roundhouses & pit groups alongside a metalled trackway. Site relatively rich in finds, with glass beads, spindle whorls & a large pottery assemblage also recovered. Prob. 5th-7th C. occupation too. A dispersed hoard of 6 late 3rd C. coins also discovered in rubble layer backfilling Roundhouse S6, along with Cheshire briquetage frags. & a sherd of D-ware pottery of 5th-6th C. AD. Roberts, H., Cuttler, R. & Hughes, G. 2004. Cefn Cwmwd, Rhostrehwfa: pit circle, early Bronze Ag…
Created on: Wednesday 16th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cefn Cwmwd', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1AC13E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
"Five fourth century bronze coins found 'all close together' in Area 8 during the 1908-1930 excavations by E. N. Baynes of the Romano-British settlement at Din Lligwy" (Guest and Wells 1102).
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Din Lligwy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D32CC9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of eight radiates and a (possible) stray nummus from a three feet radius area. Found during the excavation of the settlement at Bryn Ddiol. Only 6 radiates listed by Guest and Wells.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Byrn Ddiol', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1544E8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Seven radiates from Castellor Hill.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cemaes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7A4840
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 429 no. 1884: ""Numerous fibulae, coins and other Roman relics have been discovered. In the summer of 1831 a great number of silver and copper coins were found, among which were some of Nero, Vespasian, Constantius and Constantine together with several rings, keys, buckles and clasps of copper and other relics of Roman antiquity." -S. Lewis, Topog. Dict. of Wales (1833), s.v. Llanvihangel Din Silwy Undatable"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfihangel Din Sylwy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-26C921
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 98 no. 446: ""About eight years ago in a hedge running across one end of the enclosure [i.e. of hut circles at Tan Ben y Cefn] was found a vessel (I am not sure whether of metal or earthen) containing Roman coins. Some of them I have procured, viz. a medal of the Empress Lucilla, in good preservation, one of Antoninus Pius, and one of Carausius." The last had rev. PAX AVG. "The die has slipped in striking the coin, and part of the impression of another coin is left on one side of it." -W. Wynn Williams, in Arch. Camb, n.s., 3 (1852), 209 In Arch. Camb., 16 (1861)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanidan', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-55A686
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 170-171 no. 732: ""In November 1937 during the widening of a road between Amlwch and Bull Bay, Anglesey, a hoard of 422 coins - two of them broken halves - and two rings (silver) was found lying in the ground underneath a stone." Then came a list of 2 den. and 411 ant. from this hoard which were examined in the British Museum, and of another 8 ant., also from the hoard: Den. Ant. Ant. Severus 1 Severus Alexander 1 Gordian III 1 Gallienus 54 1 Salonina (sole reign) 3 Valerian II (deified) 1 Postumus 5 Marius 2 Victorinus 111 1 Claudius II 31 1 Quintillus…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amlwch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7C4115
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 252 no. 1050: "Twenty-four folles of Constantine I -G.C. Boon, in BBCS, XXII (1966-8), 308, no. 88"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beaumaris', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5D934B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 427 no. 1858: ""A large number of old Roman coins have been discovered in excavating for a new drive in course of construction at Baron-hill, the Anglesey seat of Sir R. Williams-Bulkeley, Bart." -F. Haverfield, in Antiquary, IV (1881), 28 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beaumaris', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C12A26
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 124 no. 545: ""The Lord Stanley, of Alderley, communicated for the inspection of the Committee some Roman coins, found near Holyhead, Anglesea. There were also small brass coins of Valerian, Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, and Posthumus, the elder, being a portion of a large number of coins discovered in 1843, under a large stone in a field at Tref Arthur, near Holyhead." -AJ, II (1845), 270 BBCS, I (1921-3), 346, suggested that this may be the same find as that listed under Holyhead (1837) [no. 1687]. This cannot be regarded as certain, however, as the dates of di…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holyhead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8884DC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 19 no. 96: ""The following small find of Roman Republican and Imperial coins, which I have been allowed by the kindness of Lady Reade to examine, is perhaps worth putting on record. They were found together, all in one spot, while the foundations of 'Western Heights' were being dug in the field called 'Parc Stryd', Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, North Wales, some time in the seventies." The coins were 32 den., 1 sest., and 6 dup. or Asses: Den. AE Republic 11 Mark Antony 6 Augustus 5 Tiberius 2 Nero 1 1 Vitellius 1 Vespasian 3 1 Titus 1 Domitian 2 5 32 7 (of A…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfaethlu', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-491DEC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
1 radiate and 9 nummi to 383. TAR 2001, 197. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2002 T123; 01.04
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cymyran', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2372DE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 220 no. 895: ""About the year 1900, 61 Roman 3rd brass found by a dog scratching at a rabbit hole: they included 44 Carausius 13 of Emperors of slightly earlier date and 12 illegible." -BBCS, I (1921-3), 346 -In NMW, Cardiff, 60 Roman coins, labelled as follows: "Group of Roman coins (?hoard) said to have come from Anglesey sites. Most of them were found in a rabbit-hole on Bwrdd Arthur, Llanfihangel din Sylwy, (but) a few were found at Llansadwrn, at a farm called Bryn-eryr." The 60 coins, 58 ant. and 2 small AE, were: Ant. AE Victorinus 1 Claudius II 4 …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfihangel Din Sylwy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7825B1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 114 no. 495: ""The following hoard of thirty-seven coins, with no trace of a container, was found by Messrs [...] of Bangor, using metal detectors, in March 1978, one coin (no. 27) having been found by them in February. The site, [...] was in earth fallen from a crevice in a steep rock beside a path leading up from the beach, in wooded ground known as Coed Cyrnol, immediately west of Menai Bridge, Anglesey." -G.C. Boon, in BBCS, XXIX (1982), 171-3, types The 37 coins, 8 den. and 29 ant. were: Den. Ant. Elagabalus 3 Severus Alexander 5 Gordian III 2 Philip I 1 …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Menai Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C144DD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 220 no. 894: ""This group of Roman coins was presented to the Museum of Welsh Antiquities, Bangor, by L -Col. T.W.L. Hughes, O.B.E., D.L., of Criccieth. They come from the collections of Col. Hughes's family at Plas Penrhyn and there is good reason to suppose that they were found in the Dwyran area. The precise circumstances and date of the find are unknown, but it seems likely that they form a hoard, or a part of one." The 13 coins in the group (1 As, 11 ant., and 1 Constantinian AE) were: As Ant. AE Gordian III 1 Philip I 1 Tetricus I 3 Tetricus II 2 Caraus…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dwyran', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3B7FEC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 211 no. 862: ""In the month of June last, as the workmen in the employ of Thomas Owen, Esq., of Rhyddgaer, in the parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesey, were digging the foundation for a new wall, they came upon a number of Roman coins. Mr. Owen was himself fortunately on the spot at the time and he got possession of the greater number. Several others were found subsequently by the farm servants who sieved the earth which had been thrown out from the foundation. Two glass beads, fragments of Samian ware, great numbers of bones and teeth of various animals and quantities o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rhuddgaer', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E8484E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
`2 gold coins of Constantine I. Several copper and silver coins of [Constantine I] were found with them.' A Llwyd, A History of the Island of Mona or Anglesey, Ruthin, 1833, p. 270 ([Llangaffo] `Two gold coins of Constantine's, in good preservation, were found near the church in the year 1829, and several copper and silver coins of that emperor and others, have been found in the parish.') = Griffiths 1948, p. 110 citing Llwyd, History of Mona, 1833, p. 270 = Baynes, Trans. Anglesey Antiq. Soc., 1929, p. 25 = IARCW 1128 (`2 solidi found near Llangaffo Church in 1829. 'Several copper an…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llangaffo', grid reference and parish protected.