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Record ID: IARCH-57E5AD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 227 no. 926: "In the excavations carried out in Eighteen Acre Field: "a second and smaller house was found in 1817 about fifty feet west or north-west of the first, and about 200 feet from the line of the Fosse way.. The principal objects found here were a bit of lead ore, 4 lb. in weight, much Samian and other pottery, including a thumb vase, fibulae, bones, an iron lampstand (?), and three hoards of coins, all buried apparently just before the end of the third century [see also nos. 649, 888]. At the point A on the plan, 60 third brass [i.e. ant.] were unearthed…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Camerton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-110721
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 195-196 no. 805: "In the summer of 1948, in the course of excavations conducted by Mr. W.J. Wedlake, on the site of a Romano-British settlement at Camerton, near Bath, a small hoard of barbarous radiates, mostly minimi, was found.. The hoard was found just below the plough soil, scattered over an area of about a square yard, presumably having on some occasion been disturbed by the plough. The external evidence for the date of the burial of the hoard is small. It was found just outside the wall of a small Roman building, and would appear to have been deposited there…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Camerton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BCE5DB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 218 no. 888: "During the excavation of the same villa in which hoard Camerton 1817 A [no. 926] was found, in Eighteen Acre Field: "at B, near or under the 'flue', which warmed the room, 114 third brass were found 'deposited in a small trench'; many were of Gallienus, Probus and Tacitus, a few of Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus, Aurelian, one of Carausius." "April 16, 1817. I [i.e. John Skinner] was agreeably surprised to hear they had found 114 coins lying in a kind of trench, below the bottom of the opening near the stoves. I found on looking at them, they consiste…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Camerton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A415D0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 227 no. 925: "During 1981 one of the writers (P. Shilling) purchased a hoard (thought to be complete except for six coins), which had been found in 1979 to the north west of Bath (precise findspot known by the Bristol Museum). The finder of the hoard had previously reported the discovery to the Bristol Museum, where a large quantity of the coins were left for about a year before being returned uncleaned. 1,807 of the coins were subsequently acquired by Paul Shilling who decided to clean and catalogue them prior to the resale and dispersal of the hoard. The coins we…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath Environs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8AEDD3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 196-7 no. 808: ""5 Nov. 1869. Exhibited "by Mr. J.F. Nicholls:- A remarkable hoard of Roman brass coins, as believed, of Carausius, Allectus, and other emperors of the fourth century (minimi), found in June, 1869, in an urn at Philwood, two miles from the camp of Mares [sic] Knoll, near Bristol. About 800 of these diminutive pieces were obtained; on some of them letters may be distinguished, but no perfect devices: with these were found about 200 larger brass coins of Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Faustina, and Gallienus, in defaced condition." -AJ, XXVII (1870)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Filwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4FD743
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
4,487 radiates, all contemporary copies (about 90% minims), no prototypes later than Tetricus II. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2005 T253
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childerley Gate', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D42B3E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 224-225 no. 915: ""The most important find of the recent excavations at Godmanchester is a hoard of Romano-British jewellery and coins. The site is that of a large Roman building, probably the bath suite of an inn.. The hoard was found scattered amongst the rubble of a rubbish pit which lay just outside the south front of the building. The pottery from this pit was fragmentary and varied widely in date. The latest pieces, however, are comparable with forms dating from the late third to the mid-fourth century from St. Ives and elsewhere. The third-century building evid…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Godmanchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FAE182
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 222 no. 909A: ""A farmstead of first- to fourth-century date within an area of more than 10 ha of crop-marks, including drove-ways and enclosures, was excavated. The largest structure was an oval V-sectioned ring-ditch, 13 m N to S and 11.5 m E to W, c. 1 m wide and 40 cm deep. It is suggested that the ring-ditch contained posts because it had a hard-packed filling and there were post-holes associated with it, including one containing a hoard of six fourth-century coins." R. Goodburn, in Britannia, IX (1978) 447; from H.C. Mytum, for Cambridge Arch. Committee The c…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somersham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D0D98F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 202-203 no. 829: ""On the 25th of Feb., 1881, a man named Charles Smith was ploughing this field (Middle Fen) when at a depth of 7 inches, the plough which is described as having 'sunk in the ground' struck and broke in pieces an earthen vessel containing upwards of 500 coins cemented by rust into a solid mass." A description of the vessel was given which suggests that it was a narrow-necked, one-handled jug of pinkish-buff ware. Of the coins, 243, all ant. were listed:- Ant. Gallienus 31 Salonina 5 Saloninus 1 Postumus 12 Laelianus 1 Marius 1 Victorinus 101 …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6AB2F6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertons 2000, 199 no. 818: "In 1965, during the excavation of the prehistoric, Romano-British and Dark Age settlement of Coygan Camp: There was found "The Counterfeiter's Deposit (Pl. X). This 'hoard' consisted of some 315 coins, and lay in a pit which had been cut through the floor level of Hut 1. After the pit had been filled, its mouth was covered by a metalling of smashed stone. Almost all the coins are imitations, of a type generally known as 'barbarous radiates', viz. copies of the base antoniniani of the later third century, and many of them are minims, below about 13 mm …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coygan Camp', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1F88A2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
"An urn containing several of his [i.e. Carausius'] coins was found some years since in a garden adjoining to Laugharne Castle; and in a natural cavern at Cyngadel, a pass through the cliffs westward of Laugharne, a sacrificial censer or thuribulum of bronze was discovered, containing many coins of Carausius. This relic is in the possession of the widow of the late Mr. Skyrme of Laugharne." -A.J. Kemp, in Gent. Mag., 1839, II, 18 -Ibid., 1842, II, 472-4, description and fig. of bronze vessel NC, 1843, Proc., 106, gave the following list of 11 coins from this hoard, all ant.: Ant. …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llansadurnen', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-868770
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 126-127 no. 558: "During the excavation of the floor of the arena, Site no. 2: "Less than fifteen square feet of the floor in this section of the arena was explored. Here primarily it consisted of a layer nine inches thick, of the natural sand which occurs in many places over the whole site. Over this at the west end of the narrow cut was a layer of burnt clay about one inch thick, which was capped with dirty sand and soil. In this capping were found many objects of interest. A group of seven bronze coins. With these coins were some sherds belonging to four coarse…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester (Amphitheatre)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-535054
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 217-8 no. 884: ""In the part of the brick-field now being worked we have excavated beyond the river bed upon the bank of which the pile dwellings were situated. The face of earth being moved is nine feet in depth and the upper four feet of it has been formed on the top of the old level on which pieces of pottery and Roman bricks have previously been found. As the coins were four feet below this level, or eight feet from the present surface, it seems clear that they had been buried in or about the close of the third century. On hearing of the discovery I at once went to…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Peterborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4B3246
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Southampton
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 223 no. 913: ""In some adjoining fields [i.e. adjoining the Manor House, Bitterne] were found a number of earthen vases, containing ashes; and a square green glass bottle, filled with bones; which mouldered away on being exposed to the air. Many coins and medals have been found in every part within the ditches; and some below high-water mark: they are chiefly of the Emperors who reigned between Claudius and Constantine; of the latter there are many. A small pot was found filled with the coin of the usurper Alectus [sic]; the reverse was a galley; but there was a dif…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bitterne (Manor House)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-89F1C1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Southampton
Workflow stage: Published
1 denarius and 4382 radiates to Carausius. PATAR 2008, 536; NC 2009, 37. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2008 T167 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: HAMP-B41528
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Millbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E35261
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 185 no. 765: ""About a fortnight since, a man who was digging in a field in the parish of Sancreed, near the Land's-end, in clearing round a large stone, discovered about 200 ancient coins. They are Roman; on the one side is a head, with a small crown, on the other, a figure, probably of Mercury, holding a sword and a staff, with the words, Temporum Felicitas. The coins were not in an urn, nor were the remains of one found near them." -West Briton, 20 March 1829 -Transcribed, 1958, through H.L. Douch, County Museum , Truro This is doubtless the same hoard as that…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sancreed', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EDB89A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 127 no. 559A: "Thirteen coins were found and interpreted thus: "Since this little handful of coins were scattered and lost in the looting of the sacellum strong room (they were in fact on the floor) in 297AD it may be regarded as a pattern of the small change officially in use at the time.. The coins were all radiates and radiate copies as follows: Regular issues Claudius II 1 RIC 102F Tetricus I 2 RIC 148, Brockage as 126 Tetricus II 2 RIC 270, illegible Copies Tetricus I 3 RIC as 135/136, as 100, 1 rev. of female fig. stg. Tetricus I? 1 SALVS AVG Tetricu…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bewcastle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2C5C5A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 173 no. 740: ""Mr. Bell the occupier of the field, had the swamp at its head drained for the purpose of ploughing through it; and his son John, in performing that work close to the north side of the inclosure, struck off the top of the vessel which contained the coins, and so shattered it that it fell into several pieces. The number of coins which it contained, will, I think, be not less than 5000; the largest of which are about seven-eighths of an inch, and the smallest about a quarter of an inch in diameter." -Letter from C. Hodgson, Carlisle, to Rev. J. Hodgson,…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castlesteads', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-518A90
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 198 no. 815: ""In the spring of 1954 Mr. Stanwix, then living at Hornby Hall, informed me that Mr. John Sarginson of Eamont Bridge had recently told him that his mother had some coins in her house, found by her late husband about forty years ago while digging a grave in the churchyard at Ninekirks, Brougham. I was of course greatly interested and went to see Mr. Sarginson who kindly fetched the coins for me to examine." -Rev. C.M.L. Bouch, in TCWAAS, n.s., LV (1955), 108 -"The hoard is composed of one regular 3rd century coin, almost completely effaced, 21 extreme…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brougham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E21B34
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 147-148 no. 662: ""On August 20th, 1910, during digging operations at Brougham Castle farm, preparatory to the erection of a Dutch barn, a number of coins were brought to light. These lay together close to the foundations of an ancient wall, the course of which is north-eastward from the old Roman camp, the point at which the coins were found being about 100 yards from the vallum. Along with the coins were bones, which crumbled on exposure. A human tooth was found. The wall was unearthed to its foundations at two points. At the second bones were seen, but no coins.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brougham', grid reference and parish protected.