Record ID: LANCUM-AC7468
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Roman finger ring, four silver denarii, sherd, steelyard weight: Steelyward Weight: 46mm (height); 31.5mm (bottom diameter); over 300g Samian Ware sherd: Naked male figure right, right arm raised; only torso visible. Extremely worn body sherd, probably Dragendorff 37; 56.1mm x 41.5mm x 4mm; 11.87g Silver finger ring fragment: 16mm height (bezel); 4mm height (hoop); 2.64g; Four coins: Four Roman Denarii from Burrow Heights, Lancaster (?): June 2014-06-26 (by Prof David Shotter) 1. Republican, Marcus Porcius Laeca (RRC 270, 1; 125 BC; 3.23g; 17mm x 1.5mm) Hel…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AC938E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Report on potential Treasure for HM Coroner 2014 T439 Carnforth, Lancashire. Teardrop-shaped silver horse-harness pendant with spherical finial. The attachment is a loop of strip metal which expands slightly to its terminal. The obverse is decorated with a punched pellet floral design of four pairs of volutes in a stack all attached to a central stem. The reverse is undecorated. Discussion: such pendants are considered to be military fittings used to decorate the harnesses of cavalry horses. For similar items see Bishop & Coulston 2006, fig. 124, nos. 12-16. Date:…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4DC831
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
The group consists of three silver Roman Republican coins of a denomination known as denarii (sing. denarius). The latest fully legible coin dates to many years before the establishment of Roman Britain. However, we know from larger coin hoard groups that Republican denarii, which had been produced over the previous two centuries, formed a substantial portion of the coin circulation throughout the first century AD. Thus these three coins cannot provide evidence on their own of Roman coins in Britain prior to the Roman annexation of AD 43. Metal Content and Age The coins satis…
Created on: Thursday 15th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dolphinholme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-45D4BD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman coin; a contemporary copy of a nummus of Constantius II dating to the period c. AD 355 to 361 (Reece Period 18). FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type depicting soldier spearing fallen horseman. The coin is overstruck on an VRBS ROMA Wolf and Twins House of Constantine commemorative nummus, from the Mint of Trier, dating to the period AD 330 to 335 (cf. RIC VII, p. 214, no. 522). 18mm diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Saturday 9th October 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-9C83A1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sestertius of Domitian (AD 81-96) dating to AD 95 -6 (Reece Period 4). Mint of Rome. RIC II 2nd ed, p. 324, no. 794. O: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XVII [CENS PER P P] . Laureate head right. R: IOVI VICTORI S-C. Jupiter seated left, holding long staff and victory. The diameter is 35mm and the weight 23.18g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-9C95DE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denarius of Domitian (AD 81-96), dating to AD 88 (Reece Period 4), Mint of Rome. RIC II (2nd ed), p. 305, no. 576. O: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VII. Laureate head right. R: IMP XIIII COS XIIII CENS P P P. Minerva standing right on prow, brandishing spear. Owl at feet. The diameter is 18mm and the weight 3.30g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
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Record ID: LANCUM-9CA471
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman Republican denarius of Julius Caesar, dating to the period 49-48 BC (Reece period 1). CAESAR reverse type depicting an Elephant right, trampling on a dragon, the legend in exergue. Travelling mint moving with Caesar. As RRC, p. 461, no. 443/1. The diameter is 18mm and the weight 2.82g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th April 2020
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Record ID: LANCUM-C4F10B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Trajan (AD 98-117), dating to the period c.AD 98-99 (Reece Period 5). PONT MAX TR POT COS II reverse type depicting Pax standing left holding branch and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RIC II, p. 246, no. 17. It measures 18.54mm in diameter, 1.91mm in thickness, and weighs 3.07g. Die axis: 6 o'clock.
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nether Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-D5D7DA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), contemporary copy, dating to the period c.AD 161-180 (Reece period 8). SALV[...], S C reverse type depicting Salus standing left holding patera (feeding snake rising from altar?) and vertical sceptre. Prototype of the mint of Rome. cf. RIC III, no. 982. This is a contemporary copy of a dupondius probably of Marcus Aurelius, the likely prototype dating to c.AD 169-170. The obverse legend is slightly blundered and the S of S C reversed.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nether Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AECED5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 21 no. 109: "Sept. 1698 "The Last Week I received a valuable Present of Two and Twenty old Roman Coins, from Mr. Towneley of Towneley, which were lately found in the parish of Burnley in Lancashire, which are the more acceptable, because many of them are Consular, or Family Coins." Then came a description of Republican den. of Q. Cassius, L. Valerius Flaccus and Scipio Asiaticus (serrate) and others with ROMA on them. R. Thoresby, in Phil. Trans. Royal Soc., XX (1698), no. 244, 312 Thoresby, in his Ducatus Leodensis (1715) and (1815), 282f. (cp. Cat. Mus. Thore…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-636384
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 207 no. 853: ""286 or later Bill. 15 Antoniniani:" Gallienus 3 Postumus 1 Claudius II 2 Tetricus I 6 Tetricus II 1 Carausius 2 15 -D.C.A. Shotter, in CH IV (1978), 40, no. 154"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster (Mitre Yard)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C78412
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 207 no. 852: "Northern Vicarage Fields "In 1973, Professor Barri Jones identified a room of a second bath-house underneath the Wery Wall. Finds included painted wall-plaster, a plastered stone-column fragment, timber and a hoard of 15 coins dated 270-93 from near the main flue." -Britannia, V (1974), 418 -D.C.A. Shotter and A.J. White, in TCWAAS, n.s., 77 (1977), 173-5, types, figs., noted that the 15 coins, all ant., were found in debris under the floor. The same list, with types, was given by D.C.A. Shotter in Roman Lancaster, Brigantia Monograph I (1988), 202…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster (Vicarage Field)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9E292C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 19 no. 99: "9 May 1776 "About 100 yds. to the Eastward of Mr. Wilson's new House, on the opposite side of Church Street, there were found, on digging a Cellar a few years ago (for Mr. Hen: Baynes's new House) sevl. large hewn stones; & one abt. 6 ft. under the surface, deemed to be 1 Tun Weight, still remains in its place. Under these stones were found a great many Roman coins of Domitian, Vespasian & others. It is thought to have been the Corner Stone of a Temple, or of some other Publick Building." Rev. M. Lort, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XIV (1775-6), 410 "About o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-BF0460
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 29 no. 147: ""In August, 1856, a vase, containing a hundred denarii, was discovered at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', Lancaster. They were of the higher empire, the latest being of the time of Trajan." C. Hardwick, Hist. of Preston (1857), 49 "On August 15th, 1856, a workman engaged in cutting away the embankment at the bottom of Bridge Lane, at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', to make way for some new cottages then about being erected by Mr. Thomas Harrison, came upon a hoard of about 100 denarii, all of the time of the higher empire, which were quickly dispersed, but …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-8E6407
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 52 no. 252: ""On building the vicarage in 1830, a large number, chiefly of Claudius, Vespasian, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius were found." -W.T. Watkin, Roman Lancashire (1886), 188 Cp. D.C.A. Shotter in Roman Lancaster, Brigantia Monograph, I (1988), 203"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-10517B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 247-248 no. 1019: ""In this same yard [i.e. the churchyard], have been picked up in this century about a hundred coins of Constantine and Probus, with others of Licinius, Diocletian, Maximian, Antoninus Pius, Domitian, Vespasian, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus." -E. Baines, Hist. of Co. Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (1868-70), ed. J. Harland) -Some of these coins must have been ant., others must have been AE."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-49F564
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
13 denarii and 1 sestertius to Hadrian. TAR 1998-99, 285; NC 2001, 14.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-947E4D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 144 no. 640: ""On 3 September 1926 a farm hand in the employ of Mr. H. Baines, of Hackensall Hall Farm, Knott End, Lancashire, was engaged in removing some sand from a pit when his spade struck a flat unwrought stone 7 in. square, which he threw on one side. He next drove his spade through a loosely compacted mass of coins round which there had been some dark-coloured material, fragments of which on examination appeared to be the remains of a leather pouch or wallet. In all, allowing for a few which were removed and irrecoverable, the find consisted of about 325 co…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preesall With Hackensall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7D7ED1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 48 no. 231: "During excavation in 1978 of a barrack-block in the Retentura of the fort at Ribchester, nine denarii were found apparently in a 'column', as if originally wrapped in cloth. There was no sign of a container or of a place of concealment, the coins apparently lying in rubble make-up for the fourth-century levels. A Coroner's inquest adjudged from the circumstances that the coins had not been hoarded; however, like the Birdoswald collection of denarii of 1949, the possibility of deliberate deposition remains; it is possible that the coins had in fact been …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-98BDED
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
From Bland and Loriot pp.190-1: 5 aurei (Nero, 1; Titus under Vespasian, 1; Domitian under Vespasian, 1; Trajan, 1; Diva Faustina I, 1). W T Watkin, Roman Lancashire, p. 162 = T C Smith and the Rev. J Shortt, The History of the Parish of Ribchester, London, 1890, p. 38 = Garstang 1899a , p. 3 (lists nos. 1, 4 and 5) = Shotter 1990, p. 32 = Shotter, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 143, 1993, p. 222 = Shotter 1995, p. 50 (`Ribchester: The Hart Collection at Blackburn Museum contains two aurei from Ribchester - an issue each for Titus and Domitian as Ca…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.