Record ID: LANCUM-65C1B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Note on discovery: all the small finds, except one coin, were found within a lead container (no. 198 below), at a depth of about 18 inches, while five of the larger, complete arm-rings were found underneath it. The objects are described in their uncleaned condition, in accordance with the terms of the Treasure Act 1996, and some of the details are currently obscured by adhering soil. After conservation, some of the weights may be slightly lighter, although there is unlikely to be any significant difference. Surface metal analysis of a sample of six objects from the hoard conducted a…
Created on: Sunday 18th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silverdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0788A0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy mid to late Bronze Age tanged chisel dagger fragment and two slag residues found within 1.5m of each other and appear to be associated. They date from 1000 to 800BC. Associated with LANCUM-06AA41, LANCUM-0633E7, LANCUM-060825.jpg, LANCUM-064172 and LANCUM-069462 Description 1. Chisel: The chisel is virtually complete and in good condition. The tang of the chisel is tapering and rectangular sectioned square-sectioned. There is a wide, oval collar separating the tang from the blade. The blade is oval in cross section below the collar and flares and thins in to a tria…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-33EBC3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Report for H M Coroner Treasure Number: 2014 T845 Find Spot: Lytham St Annes PAS Database number: LANCUM-33EBC3 Period: Roman Date of Discovery: 11.10.2014 - 18.11.2014 Circumstances of discovery: Metal detecting over the period of 1 year until the number reached more than 10 and qualified for treasure Authors: David Shotter and Stuart Noon Description: This group of sixteen mid-fourth century nummi and one bracelet was recovered over the year 2014 from an inter-tidal location in Lytham St. Anne's. The coins were discovered underneath a cobbled surface on the e…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CLIFTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-97FA16
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of two early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axes with similarities to the Aylesford tradition of the early Bronze Age, dating from c. 2050-1750BC. Axe 1 - A cast copper-alloy flat axehead of the Early Bronze Age, dating to the period of 2050-1700 BC. Early Bronze Age bronze Developed (relatively late) flat axe, similar to Irish flat axes, and dating to the Willerby stage (i.e. 20th - 18th century BC) or later. It is possible that this axe is an Irish import (see examples in Harbison1969). The axe is near-complete sub-rectangular in plan but is heavily corroded with some perip…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2FD057
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of seven early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axes with similarities to the Migdale-Marnoch tradition of the early Bronze Age, dating from c. 2200-1900BC. All are of early types and surface analysis undertaken at the British Museum has shown all to be of unalloyed copper with (unquantified) traces of arsenic, silver and antimony. Although they have somewhat corroded surfaces and a range of other minor damage, all are essentially complete objects. Their original outlines can be extrapolated with some confidence, thus allowing classification according to the latest scheme for sou…
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 31st January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westby-with-Plumptons', grid reference and parish protected.

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-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.

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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.

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Record ID: IARCH-F02F43
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 217 no. 883: ""A short time ago, a number of bronze coins, &c., were found about four miles north-east of Bury, on some moorland, near an old Roman road which formerly crossed that way. The relics consisted of about three hundred coins, mostly, if not all, third brass of the late empire, all very much worn and corroded, with the exception of some denarii of Carausius, in most excellent condition; most of the rest being those of Tetricus &c. Along with the coins were found various articles of silver, viz:- Two broad bracelets, ornamented with a wave pattern, one per…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walmersley', grid reference and parish protected.