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Record ID: IARCH-10B068
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone disc (possibly shale or slate) reported with the coins. Thought to be a counter or playing piece. Smooth faces, square profile edge. From unpublished report by S C Bean. 21mm diameter, 3mm thick
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lathom', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1D7C97
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliviger (Dyer Wood)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9CF182
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shotter's comments (1978, 45) about the hoard being possibly in a box (according to Corbyn Barrow) can probably be discounted on the basis of contemporary accounts mentioning a pot.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1945EB
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"…some dark-coloured material, fragments of which on examination appeared to be the remains of a leather pouch or wallet". stone
Created on: Tuesday 20th 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-1B1CF4
Object type: BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a "small oaken box"
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Longton Moss', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9C3CDD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, broken pot
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brindle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1A114E
Object type: TEXTILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
No container found but the fact that the coins were fused in a column might suggest that they were wrapped in textile.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1BDF54
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"The receptacle of the hoard was a Samian olla, 3 in. high and 3 3/8 in. in diameter, of form D[e]chelette 67 (probably of Flavian date and South Gaulish origin)". Now in Harris Museum, Preston Examined, jar drawn and photographed, 1978 (ASR),
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirkham', 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mereclough', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lathom', grid reference and parish protected.

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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.

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Record ID: IARCH-5CFA5D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 17 no. 89: ""A group of five silver denarii [was] found by the roadside north of the [Roman] fort in 1920." J.H. Hopkinson ed. The Roman Fort at Ribchester, 3 ed. by D. Atkinson (1928), 10 A "Brief Description of the Contents of the Museum at Ribchester" noted that Case V contained the series of coins from the site (Ibid., 34): "Among others the group of five silver denarii, belonging to the reigns of Vespasian and Titus (AD 69-81), may be noticed. These were found on the edge of the Roman road about forty yards north of the North Gate of the fort. The silver coi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.