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Record ID: IARCH-12D212
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 22-23 no. 118: ""On the 17th. November, 1806, on the south-west side of Trinity Court, near the Turnpike Road, or main street of Walcot (the ancient Foss Road) some labourers found a hoard of nearly one hundred Roman Coins." The following 79 were listed: Republic 15 Nero 5 Vespasian 28 Titus 2 Domitian 15 Nerva 13 Trajan 1 79 "A few days after, a Medal of Nero, and one of Antoninus Pius were found on the same spot." H.M. Scarth, Aquae Sulis (1864), 98 The Republican coins were certainly silver, but the metal of the others is uncertain. "" Entry from …
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath (Trinity Court)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DBFD86
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
"Mrs. D.P. Dobson, Arch. of Somerset (1931), 154, attributed a hoard, containing a coin of Arcadius, to Lansdown, Bath, but the coins found at Lansdown constituted, not a hoard, but a site find. T.S. Bush, in PSA, (2), XXII (1907-9), 34; and JBAA, n.s., XII (1906), 289; giving date of discovery as 1905; and XIII (1907), 112, 251" Robertson 2000, 1495A
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath (Lansdown)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1E8392
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 251 no. 1042: "A few days since, as the workmen were excavating the ground for the foundations of the New Bridge, at the bottom of Bathwick Street they discovered, about 10 feet below the surface, a metal pot containing about half a peck of Roman copper coins, many of them in excellent preservation: some of them bear the superscription of Constantine, and others are of a more ancient date. The pot that contained them was very much corroded. Mr. Goodridge, Lord Darlington's steward, being present when the discovery was made, took possession of the coins." -Gent. Mag…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath (Bathwick Street Bridge)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-15228D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 358 no. 1474: "The hoard of 255 silver siliquae was found with a metal detector on 6 February 1983 in a hedgerow in Newton Mills Park, between Newton St Loe and Saltford, near Bath. There was no sign of any container. It was rumoured at the time that the find was not made near Bath, but at Stockton Earthworks, Wiltshire, and that it also contained about 40 solidi, a number of miliarenses and more siliquae, but police investigations revealed no evidence to support these rumours." The 255 siliquae were of the following emperors and mints: Trier Lyons Arles Rome Aqui…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F3D646
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard contained 1904 denarii and 15756 radiates to Tetricus II in 8 separate bags sorted by denominations. Fully catalogued in Anthony, Abdy and Clews eds. 2019 The Beau Street, Bath hoard (Archaeopress). PATAR 2007, 483; NC 2008, 21 Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2007 T677 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: GLO-40A9B6 (preliminary summaries)
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beau Street', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9303E7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 422 no. 1796: "About the same time [i.e. about 1691] were discovered two Roman altars and an urn filled with coins of that people." J. Collinson, Hist. and Ant. of Somerset (1791), I, 111 VCH Somerset, I (1911), 300, was misled by a reference in Gough's Camden (1806), I, 118, to the discovery of a mosaic pavement and hypocaust at Bathford, into stating that the urn of coins was found in a Roman villa. Undated. "
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bathford', grid reference and parish protected.

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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…
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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…
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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-CB0ABA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 390 no. 1579: "At Camerton... three Roman villas were discovered in 1814 as well as a quantity (26) of silver Roman coins of Honorius, Arcadius, and the later Emperors, concealed between two Roman tiles." J.D. Phelps, Hist. and Ant. of Somerset (1836), I, 179 S. Archer, Late Roman Gold and Silver Hoards in Britain: A Gazetteer, in P.J. Casey ed. The End of Roman Britain, BAR 71 (1979), 36, no. 8, dated the discovery, wrongly, "after 1841". "
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Camerton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F71ACA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 145-6 , no. 649: "During the excavation of the Roman villa in which the two hoards, Camerton, 1817 A [no. 926] and Camerton, 1817 B [no. 888] were found, in Eighteen Acre Field: "at C a larger hoard of 334 coins was extracted from below two large stones, placed as it seemed, purposely above it: the coins were of Gallienus, Probus, Tacitus, and Claudius Gothicus." "June 6, 1817. On visiting the scene of operations about the middle of the day, I found Harris (the workman) had just come to a deposit of a number of coins, amounting in the whole to 334, chiefly of Cla…
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-3BB828
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 354 no. 1453: "During the excavation of the eastern buildings of the Temple at Pagan's Hill: "32 coins were found in the Eastern buildings, most of which were found in robbers' spoil or under the rubble spread to the East. They included two radiates (one in the scattered hoard referred to below) and 8 Constantinian coins; the remainder are of the House of Valentinian and one of Theodosius. Among these are seven which, with three earlier coins, formed a small scattered hoard under the rubble East of Room 4 (Area 19)." P.A. and M.H. Rahtz and L.G. Harris, in Proc. So…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Stoke (Pagan's Hill)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6C6761
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 92-3 no. 424: "In 1882 Somerset County Museum, Taunton, acquired by purchase "29 Roman silver coins found at Chew Stoke." Proc. Somerset Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc., XXVIII (1) (1883), 78 In a letter, July 1959, AD Hallam, Somerset County Museum, Taunton, stated that in 1946 these 29 coins were submitted to Sir George Hill, in the British Museum. He found among them four casts, two Republican and two Imperial, but would not commit himself with regard to their age. Den. Semis Republic 12 Octavian 1 Tiberius 1 Nero 1 Otho 1 Vespasian (deified) 1 Titus (under Ve…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Stoke', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-40B7DE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 336 no. 1375: "Kelston - copper coins of Constantine I and Valentinian I in grounds of John Harington (Guidott (1676), 68)." VCH Somerset, I (1906), 363."
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AAB23A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 390 no. 1583: "A small hoard of seventy-seven clipped siliquae reputedly discovered at Paulton, included one Julian, one Jovian, fourteen Valens, ten Gratian, nine Valentinian II, five Theodosius, five Magnus Maximus, three Eugenius, nine Honorius, and ten either Arcadius or Honorius." JRS, XLVII (1957), 221". Findspot uncertain; details came to light after the death of the finder. Photos of coins in BM file.
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paulton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4F6DD7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
16 denarii and 4 radiates to Philip I Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2012 T340 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: GLO-17FB23
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Timsbury', 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…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath Environs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C268A4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 361 no. 1486: "About 250 denarii [sic] have recently been found on the line of the Great Western Railway, somewhere between Bath and Bristol but the exact site we have as yet been unable to ascertain. Of about 150 which were permitted to be examined, the following particulars were obtained:- They are entirely of Valens, Gratian, and Magnus Maximus: and speaking in round numbers there may have been about an equal proportion of each. The reverses are as follows:- Valens, VRBS ROMA VOT V MVLT X; Gratian, VRBS ROMA, VIRTVS ROMANORVM; Magnus Maximus, VIRTVS ROMANORVM. T…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uncertain (Between Bath and Bristol)', 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)…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Filwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7ED79F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 116-7 no. 508: "I have already mentioned Whitchurch as a place of Roman occupation. My attention was first drawn to this place by the note which appears in vol. i, pt. ii of the Proceedings of this Club [i.e. the Clifton Antiquarian Club], which records the finding of a stone coffin containing a skeleton, at Lyon's Court Farm, in 1886. In the spring of the present year [i.e. 1891] I visited the spot where the interment had been discovered, with a view to making further researches. Two labourers from whom I made some inquiries, kindly conducted me to the place where …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A73C8C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 368 no. 1513: ""On 27 August 1978 a small hoard of thirteen Roman silver coins of the late fourth century was found in a copse at the edge of a road leading to Kempston Church.. Despite the small quantity of coins and the absence of any container (it may have been of leather or cloth which had perished), the coins form a coherent group which appears to have been a hoard. Most finds of late Roman silver consist primarily of siliquae with the addition of a small number of miliarenses, but the present find of eleven miliarenses and only two siliquae is unusual." The …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kempston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E9B8B8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
"During the excavation of the native British site at Hengistbury Head, on site 33: "Coins were found lying on the surface and all through the soil in the area indicated by the dotted line in fig. 17. The soil was riddled with rabbit burrows, and it was undoubtedly these animals that had caused the dispersion of the coins, a few having afterwards been carried farther afield by the plough. The coins had evidently been deposited in bundles, probably wrapped in basket-work, as a fibrous matter was found adhering to many of them. The largest collection, a mass of 734 coins lying on a sto…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hengistbury Head', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-765889
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
R. Bland examined 7 out of 1500 nummi to 378. This hoard was thought very likely to be the same as the 'Kings Langley' hoard (hoard number 935) bought in good faith by the Roemisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz. However there is an element of doubt related to discrepancies in the date of discovery and the similarity of the containers. The discovery of the Amersham hoard was reported in "Take a Break" magazine along with photographs and was subsequently sold to a dealer without being examined.
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amersham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BD5723
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 359 no. 1477: ""Two gold solidi were found during construction work in October 1979 in a bank of soil protecting a new housing estate at Haydon Hill, Aylesbury, from flooding. They were found about 1 metre down in soil which could have come from almost anywhere on the housing estate. The estate is on the line of Akeman Street, and there is some archaeological evidence for two small roadside settlements in the area. The two coins were both struck at the mint of Trier by Magnus Maximus (383-88), one in his own name and one in the name of Theodosius. As they are both in…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aylesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-706829
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 354 no. 1455: ""About three year ago a gentleman, shall we say Mr. X? was chatting to a friend on the latter's farm near Aylesbury, when a farm lad came up and showed his master a bucket more than half full of Roman coins which he had found. The farmer told him that they were no good and were to be thrown away. Mr. X, however, was interested and put a random handful into his pocket. He afterwards gave them to Mr. F. Gilbert Smith of Rhyl who has courteously permitted me to examine them." Then followed a list of 36 small AE coins, from Constantius II to Valentinian I…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aylesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7D34B0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 66-67 no. 320: "Hoard of 627 den. to Commodus (AD 186) in field between Bletchley and Little Brickhill Inf., 1987 and 1988, from R. Bland and A.M. Burnett; Britannia, XIX (1988), 454 "The hoard of 627 Roman silver denarii was found in August and September 1987 near Little Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, and declared Treasure Trove at an Inquest held on 9th December 1987. The find spot is on the edge of the Roman town of Magiovinium, at the same site as the find of 296 denarii found in 1967.. The following combined list of the 1987 and 1967 finds is provided: 1987 19…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bletchley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-42BD03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 308-309 no. 1272: ""Over 250 ancient coins, most of them believed to be native British, were unearthed by a member of the Bletchley Archaeological and Historical Society at the Roman site at Fenny Stratford on Sunday. Thirty-four of the coins are of Constantinian type, including a few silver ones. All the rest are barbarous copies of Roman coins. There are 209 which have been separated and also an unknown number in a solid clay-and-coin clod not separated at the time of writing. They have been taken to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for positive identification. The …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Stratford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1CCEAE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
2 dies, 598 bronze blanks, 608g metal pellets, possibly a 3rd century AD forger's hoard. Found in three local sand-tempered ceramic vessels but treated here as one hoard. The first pot held 0.6kg of bronze pellets, the second contained 246 blanks, hammered but not ready for striking and the third held 352 finished blanks ready for striking.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Stratford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2768BF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 66 no. 319: ""Two amateur archaeologists following the course of a gas pipeline being laid through Buckinghamshire found a hoard of more than 280 first century Roman silver coins during the weekend. Mr. Adrian Knight and Mr. Hedley Pengelly, both members of Bletchley Archaeological Society, were examining a ditch dug by mechanical excavators in a field next to the Roman Watling Street south of Bletchley when they found the coins. Other members of the society were called in yesterday and two more coins, and fragments of Roman pottery and an axe and arrowhead were un…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1DE7AA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 173 no. 740A: ""The hoard was found in September 1989 by Mr Christopher Conway using a metal detector in a field near Welder's Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, and was excavated by the finder with the help of members of the local metal-detecting club over the next three months. M E Farley and Andrew Hunn, of Buckinghamshire County Museum subsequently examined the site. The coins were contained in four pots, of which nos. I, II and III were buried close together, with no. IV at a distance of four metres. Pot I was a narrow-necked wheel-thrown jar of dark gr…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalfont St Peter I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FBE268
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
1456 nummi to 355 and pottery. 2012 find of nummus of Valens, 364-78 thought not to be an addendum. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2006 T631; 2012 T836 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: PAS-355605
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Keynes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-23D743
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
733 nummi and one radiate to 317 and pot. Yarrow (2009, p.237) writes: "Mr D. Valverde discovered this hoard on 18 July 1999 in a Buckinghamshire field while on a metal detecting club outing. On the same day in the same field a hoard of denarii was also found, the 'Prestwood A' hoard (CHRB XI, pp.163-168).2 A number of potsherds were associated with the find. The area has yielded no previous archaeological finds; the topography can be described as a relatively isolated upland area a few kilometres from known settlements and roads of the Roman period. The hoard was declared treasure…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Prestwood B', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-716A2D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
110 denarii and 1 radiate to Elagabalus. Addenda of 2 denarii (Trajan and Caracalla Caesar). Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2005 T144 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: BUC-60D174
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Prestwood A', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4ED926
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 256 no. 1081: "In 1912, during the excavation of a Romano-British homestead at Hambledon [sic] Valley: "Hoard of 294 bronze coins found in a small black pot, on the inside of the N. wall of the cottage built on to the W. end of the 2nd House, buried below the floor, and covered with two or three pieces of tile and brick, 15 ft. E. of the W. corner of the house. An ivory pin appeared to have fastened a cloth over the mouth of the jar before it was laid on its side in the shallow space under the floor, and this having eventually decayed, allowed some of the coins to …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yewden Villa', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-42860C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 51 no. 247: ""3 Feb. 1725. Ld Winchelsea brought two large Medals one of Antoninus Pius, the other of M. Aurelius part of a large parcel found by Sr ffra Dashwood at E. Wickham Bucks. they were generally of the higher Empire. Ld Westmorland and Coll. Vane have more of them. Ant. aug. pius. p. p. tr. p. Rv. a triumphal quadriga coss IIII S.C. - imp. cos. m. aurel. Antoninus aug. p. m. Rv. the emperors, concordia augustor, tr. p. aug. s. c. coss II." -Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., I (1717-32), 140 These 2 coins were of Antoninus Pius (of AD 145-61), and of Marcus (of AD 161-2…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wycombe (West Wycombe?)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C06BD3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 416 no. 1707: ""In 1826, a labourer in trenching a piece of garden ground, which he had taken from the common near Hazlemere Turnpike Gate, turned up a small urn in which were four small silver Roman coins in good preservation and three copper coins much defaced." G. Lipscomb, Hist. of Bucks. (1847), 583 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hughenden', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-102125
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 9 no. 40: ""Within the last few weeks a pot of small Roman coins (some of Claudius, but the greater number much corroded) was found at Crendon, near the spot of the former discoveries [i.e. the Roman cemetery at Long Crendon]." G.L., in Gent. Mag., 1831, I, 582 Including Claudius (I or II?)"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Crendon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-618B89
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 285 no. 1217: ""In the course of the 1978 excavations at Bancroft Roman Villa a small hoard of 76 folles of the 330s was recovered. The coins were not discovered in or near a container and it is possible that they were stored in something like a bag which has since perished. Unfortunately the hoard cannot be associated with any particular architectural feature - they were simply lying on the ground when found. The small size of the find suggests it was the property of an individual who may have been using them as 'current coin', a suggestion which is supported by th…
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bancroft Roman Villa', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EFB819
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 246 no. 1013A: "The hoard was discovered by a group of four metal detector users [...] on a building site at Walton, within the area of Milton Keynes New Town, in late 1987. The coins were found scattered over an area of several square yards and there was no trace of any container; it is likely that the coins recorded here do not constitute the whole hoard. The Milton Keynes Archaeology Unit has discovered evidence of Roman occupation from two separate sites respectively within 300-400 yards and [within] half a mile of the hoard's find spot."
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A11C27
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Caerphilly
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 199-200 no. 819: ""A report on the mine has been published by J. and N. Tuck as Caving Report No. 15 (1971) of the Bristol Exploration Club. It is a wholly artificial cutting in the Dolomite of Cefn-pwll-du - 'hill of the black pit' - and at present is the most certainly Roman lead-silver mine in the country. There are substantial signs of Roman interest in the ore, both here (especially at Machen in the valley of the Rhymney a little to the east) and at Risca (in the valley of the Ebbw) where a bath-house containing stamped bricks of the Second Augustan Legion was …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Draethen', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5C2D62
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 135 no. 592: ""On October 1952, a find of 458 Roman coins was made at Scout Rocks, Scout Wood, Mytholmroyd, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The find was reported to the police and a subsequent search of the site by a police officer and the Deputy Director of the Halifax Museum produced a further 139 coins and fragments of Roman pottery. The pot has been restored by the Halifax Museum who acquired it." The coins were 597 ant.: Ant. Gordian III 1 Philip I 1 Treb. Gallus 1 Aemilian 1 Valerian I 1 Gallienus 71 Salonina 12 Valerian II 2 Saloninus 1 Postumus …
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mytholmroyd', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B818C3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
15 nummi to 348. Date: AD 348 Discovery: Found by Albion Archaeology in November 2005, during controlled excavation of a Romano-British rural settlement. The coins were recovered from the fill of a boundary ditch that enclosed the settlement. Description: 15 Constantinian nummi: Gloria Exercitus, 2 standards (AD 330-335), 5 Constantinopolis (AD 330-340), 3 Pax Publica (AD 337-341), 1 Two Victories (AD 346-348), 1 Irregular 'Gloria Exercitus, 2 standards', 1 Irregular 'Constantinopolis', 1 Irregular 'Urbs Roma', 3 Disposition: Disclaimed to remain with the main site archive…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bourn Airfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-869F9C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,318 no. 1318: "In 1953, at Arbury Road, Cambridge, during the excavation of a small building of fourth-century date in a Romano-British settlement site, "a small hoard of seventeen bronze coins, half a bronze ring, and a bead of green clay composition were brought to light. They had evidently been contained in a small iron-bound box, for fragments of three coins were found embedded in the corroded iron of one side and corner. The group was found 2 ft. 10 in. below the surface, embedded in a layer of clay 2 in. thick which at this point overlay the chalk foundations of t…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridge', 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
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childerley Gate', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3CF1B0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 4-5 no. 17: ""During 1981 a number of coins and other objects were recovered from King's Fen field, Manor Farm, Chippenham, Ely. These consisted of a group of 41 Roman gold and silver coins from the Republic to Claudius I, a group of 5 staters of Cunobelin, and, thirdly, a miscellaneous accumulation of coins and artifacts dating from the Iron Age to the modern period. The 46 coins of the first two groups were declared Treasure Trove at an Inquest in November 1984. The third group does not require discussion here, as it represents the casual losses on the site over a l…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A30A8B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,152 no. 694A: ""The most important find this year was a hoard of 5084 Roman coins of the 3rd century AD, found near Cottenham." -CBA, Arch. in Britain, 1986 (1987), 54 Mrs. Alison Taylor, Cambs. County Archaeologist, stated in a letter, Dec. 1988, that the hoard which she "excavated following a metal detector find, is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, where the coins are being cleaned and identified." T. Volk, in a letter, Dec. 1988, stated that "on the basis of the cleaned portion only, it is a hoard mainly of post-260/1 issues (there is some earlier coinage). The most…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cottenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EF4CD9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 235 no. 968: "From the Roman pottery kiln at Earith, "a coin hoard and other samples of pottery are also in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge." -H.J.M. Green, in Proc. Cambs. Ant. Soc., 58 (1954), 46 -Cp. C.W. Phillips, ed., The Fenland in Roman Times (1970), 194: "EARITH, Fen Drove: 391759 Small 3rdC coin hoard" Undated. 3rd century AD"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bluntisham Cum Earith', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D2E572
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 349 no. 1430: ""About 1713 at Elm near Wisbech an urn full of roman brass money was taken up, not far from a tumulus. Dr. Massey has many of the coyns, they are of the later empire." W. Stukeley, Itin. Cur. (1724), 11 "I send you a description of such coins in my collection as were found in the parish of Elm (insul. Eliens). I cannot exactly recollect the year nor is it very material.. Impp. Rom. Numismata propre Elme infra Insul. Eliens. eruta circa annum 1730, hodie penes B.B." The coins described were 26 ant., 2 folles (of Diocletian and Constantine I) and 2 s…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-94A00C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 136 no. 598: ""Dragline operations in November 1962 on the Co-operative Wholesale Society farm at Coldham, near March, brought to light a small pot containing coins. The find was reported to the writer by the foreman of the farm, Mr. Ling. Unfortunately, the exact point where the find was made could not be located[...] but the general area was covered with salterns (salt-works, for the extraction of salt by evaporation), presumably associated with the large Romano-British settlement in an adjoining field. The pot, which was found intact, is made of a hard, dark grey f…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coldham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6A709D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
1021 base-metal nummi and fragments. Ian Meadows writes: "The hoard contained coins from the late 3rd- to the late 4th-century but the vast majority of the issues were of the last 20 years of the 4th century. Nearly 41% of the assemblage was unidentifiable. The mint marks could be read for just over 5% of the examples: Trier (8), Arles (21), Lyon (15), Aquileia (7) and Rome (3). Emperors represented in the identifiable coins were; Claudius II Gothicus (1), Helena (1), Constantinopolis (2), Constantine II (2), Constantius II (3), Constans (6), Valentinian I (4), Valens (3), Gratian (2)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ely', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3C4AB6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,411-412 no. 1657: ""I have examined thirty of these barrows, all in the neighbourhood, some close to, and others actually upon the earthwork [i.e the Dykes]. The same rude sunburnt vases occur, except in one near Triplow, where a good Roman urn was found; the same interments also by cremation, one case again only excepted near Chrishall [sic] Grange, with innumerable third brass coins of the lowest empire, or their rude imitations." R.C. Nevile, in AJ, XI (1854), 211 "Lower" Empire"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chrishall', 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-2992DD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 313 no. 1303: "During excavations in the gardens of 6, 7 and 8 St Anne's Lane; "A small group of coins of c. 313-55 may represent a scattered hoard." (Footnote: "Excavation for the Department of the Environment by Mr. H.J.M. Green who sent information and a plan.") Britannia, XIII (1982), 363"
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-1ACA5D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 6 no. 21: ""There was found about 1870 by the vicar in what is now the 'park' a stone coffin containing, it is said, a skeleton of an abnormally tall man and an indented Castor beaker of third century date. A story goes that gold coins dated about 50 AD were in the beaker and were claimed by the Crown as treasure trove; enquiries fail to substantiate the truth of this statement, and the coins cannot be traced in the British Museum. (Inform. From Mr. C.F. Tebbutt, of St. Neot's. The coffin and beaker are now in the church at Hemingford Abbots.)." VCH Hunts., I (1926), …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingford Abbots', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A34EC9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 249 no. 1028: ""ISLEHAM, New Mill: Small hoard of early 4thC coins from bed of extinct stream, 1942 (Inf. G[ordon] F[owler], recorded [Lady] G[race] B[riscoe])." -C.W. Phillips ed., The Fenland in Roman Times (1970), 237 Undated. Early 4th century AD, Constantine (I?), or later"
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B4FEA3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cambridgeshire HER 01592 (`Roman pewter hoard found on rotary quern immediately west of Isleham "Temple". Hoard excavated by Mr Smith in 1978 and sent to British Museum for conservation. Also 4 gold coins sent separately to BM and since sold.') Uncertain if gold or Roman coins.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F0E78F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,38 no. 190: ""Some workmen employed in digging for stone at Limloe Hill, near Royston, lately discovered the remains of several bodies, one of which, in a most perfect state, was timely saved from their mutilation. It was carefully taken up by Mr. Deck, practical chemist of Huntingdon, and forms very nearly an entire skeleton. Upon the breast were numerous pieces of broken pottery, evidently the remains of urns of fine workmanship, and several coins of Claudius, and Vespasian, and Faustina." Mr. Kempe, in Gent. Mag., 1833, I, 453"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Royston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-60FD74
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 119 no. 529: "In 1931, "the owner of Hill Farm did not at that time want the pasture disturbed, but he gave permission for the excavation of a circular mound 5 ft. in diameter on the bank of the old river where the roddon entered it. On removing the turf a cluster of Roman bronze coins was found. They were as follows: Titus 1 Domitian 1 Trajan 1 Antoninus Pius 1 Faustina 1 Commodus 1 Julia Domna 3 Aurelius Claudius [sic] 4 13 The Trajan coin and those of Aurelius Claudius were in good condition. The rest were much worn and in only a moderate state of preserv…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littleport', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FE2F47
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 96-97 no. 439: ""About six miles north of this city [i.e. Ely], a small distance from Littleport, are seen the traces of a river, now called the Old Croft River; which was formerly the natural course of the Ouse, leading towards Wisbech. About two months ago, underneath the silt, in the bottom of this deserted channel, at about the depth of ten feet, the labourers accidentally met with several Roman coins of middle brass, lying close together; and with them also a small iron padlock, of a spherical form, about the size of a small tennis ball, through the loop of which…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littleport', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4215E0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,67 no. 321: ""Nov. 26, 1730. Mr. Roger Gale informed the Society that an Urn containing about a Quart full of silver Coins was found about three weeks since near March in the Isle of Ely, upon digging to make the New Way from thence to the Town of Wisbich and among which was a fair Denarius of Trajan. Another of Faustina the Younger." -Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., I (1717-32), 252, with further refs. on 256 and 261, some types "1730-1731. February 10. Notices of four Roman urns dug up at March in three were burnt bones, ashes, etc., and in fourth upwards of 400 Roman Denarii…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'March', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3B4DAF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 107 no. 482: ""Nine sestertii were found in the same area [i.e. in the area of rectilinear enclosures] stacked in a column. The group consists of eight very worn coins of second-century date and a double sestertius of Postumus:" Sest. Double sest. Hadrian 3 Aelius Caes. 1 Antoninus Pius 1 Marcus 1 Lucius Verus 1 Lucilla 1 Postumus 1 8 1 -D.C.A. Shotter, in CH IV (1978), 39, no. 141; and 47, types VCH Cambs. and Isle of Ely, 7, Roman Cambs. (1978), 65, appeared to consider the double sest. of Postumus as an intruder: "the last certain coin dates to AD 166-7"…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flaggrass', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1FE0F5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,416 no. 1710: ""Clipson's Farm.: when a large mound was levelled about 1940, a skeleton is said to have been found 'with a pot of money', but the find was destroyed. (Information from Mr. Walter Warby)." G. Fowler, in Proc. Cambs.Ant. Soc., XLIII (1949-50), 16; App. II, by E. J. Rudsdale and W. Warby Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'March', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8CD9BD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 123 no. 539: "(a) In Estover Rd., 1949-50, during ploughing, there were found and acquired by the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, on 9 Oct. 1950, a small hoard of 1 den. and 14 ant. which had been contained in the truncated base of a colour-coated beaker. : Den. Ant. Julia Mamaea 1 Gordian III 3 Trajan Decius 3 Treb. Gallus 1 Mariniana 1 Gallienus 4 Postumus 2 1 14 (1 sole reign) (b) On 15 Sept. 1950, other 15 coins, 1 den. and 14 ant., had been acquired by the Wisbech and Fenland Museum. They had been found loose in the soil, close to the 15 coins listed above. All 3…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flaggrass', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9CD241
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
214 nummi to 355. BNJ 2012, 41. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2011 T873 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: CAM-1E7993
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District', 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-A14E2A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
17 sestertii and 6 dupondii/asses to Antoninus Pius. Another hoard found on the same site [to be confirmed]. TAR 2004, 430; NC 2005, 29. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2004 T083
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Neots', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8C71F8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 369-370 no. 1517: "In 1939, "this hoard of 865 coins was found in a broken grey-ware pot by workmen cutting the side of a drain on Tiled House Farm, Stretham, near Ely.. The pot in which the coins were contained was unfortunately broken, and the upper half could not be recovered. It is a jar of hard grey ware, with slightly burnished surface, with a more or less globular body and slightly expanded footstand. Had it been found unassociated with any datable object, it would probably have been assigned to a much earlier period than that to which it actually belongs." The…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stretham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A3AA42
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 310-311 no. 1278: ""On 14th February 1974 a most interesting Roman find of the mid fourth century was made in a field some 200 metres from the A 1 road at Water Newton. A pottery bowl, covered by a lid, was found to contain a bronze bowl (used as a liner), two pieces of folded silver plate, remains of a linen-lined leather purse, and 30 Roman gold coins. The pottery bowl (rim diameter 15.8 cm) is burnished on the exterior and has a dark grey to black surface. The upper part of the body is decorated by double lines in zig-zag pattern, enclosing in each triangle three i…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Water Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5FC860
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
2 solidi (Valentinian II) AD 379-83 (1) 1. Valentinian II, rev. VICTOR-IA AVGG, Two emperors seated facing; in exergue: TROBT, RIC Trier 49(c), 1 AD 388-92 (1) 2. Valentinian II, rev. VICTOR-IA AVGG, Two emperors seated facing; in field: L D; in exergue: COM, RIC Lyon 38(a). Recorded by Nene Valley Archaeological Group from American metal detector users from Alconbury searching at Water Newton in 1975. Information courtesy of Geoffery Dannell. From within the walled Roman town of Durobrivae
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Water Newton', 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-70044F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 96 no. 435:"Cp. T.W. Potter and R.P.J. Jackson, in Antiquity, 56 (1982), 111-19; see T.W. Potter, Stonea Excavations[...] 70 den. in Dept. of Coins and Medals, BM (BM Register of Coin Accessions, 1982-4-4-1; 1984 2-23-1 to 47; 1985-10-38-1 to 22)." Note this is actually three Roman hoards (separated out here from Robertson's account, as registered in C&M though basis on which this separation occurred is unclear). Shotter's groups I to III are used here (see Shotter in Jackson and Potter 1996 p.287). This group was found with Iron Age coins seen as a separate group…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonea Grange I Group II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5460F5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 136-137 no. 601: ""Mr. W.E. Rose also tells me that near the same spot [i.e. Stonea Grange Farm], a vase was turned up by the plough in 1848, containing at least 2000 copper coins in a very decomposed state. Mr. Rose states that curiously enough the bottom of the vase contained a piece of lead evidently run into it in a liquid state, the size and thickness being equal to a twopenny piece." -C.C. Babington, Ancient Cambs. (1883), 87 Base of pot and 52 coins in Wisbech and Fenland Museum. The pot had been a cooking pot of coarse grey ware, with a black slip, and a hole…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimblington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3C91FB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 137 no. 603: ""The exact circumstances of this find are not clear, though a Grid Reference...is given for the findspot [i.e. by C.W. Phillips ed., The Fenland in Roman Times (1970), 218]. There are twenty-five antoniniani in the hoard, and none exhibits a great deal of wear": Ant. Gallienus (sole reign) 2 Postumus 3 Victorinus 8 Claudius II 2 Tetricus I 6 Tetricus II 4 25 -D.C.A. Shotter, in CH IV (1978), 39, no. 148; and 48, no. 148, types 25 ant. in Wisbech and Fenland Museum"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonea Camp', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E99A99
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,416 no. 1712: ""WISBECH ST. MARY Calves' Field: 3 coins 'at Tholomas Drive' [sic] before 1914 (Wisb. M. Report, 1950-1, 7), perhaps hoard of later 3rdC." C.W. Phillips ed., The Fenland in Roman Times (1970), 298 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wisbech', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5A7989
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 164 no. 709: ""The hoard reported to the National Museum (and after an inquest of Treasure Trove acquired by the Museum) was found by workmen on the Bovis Homes building-site on March 11th, 1975. One thousand and eighty-four antoniniani dating between 251-3 and 274 were recovered [not 1094 as stated in preliminary notes of this hoard], a total probably not far off the number originally buried in a grey pottery jar, several shards of which were recovered stained by its contents. The rim is not represented, and it was probably ploughed off long ago. The site is marked…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanedeyrn II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5BE11E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 28 no. 142: ""In one of these [i.e. burial mounds] viz. 'Crug-y-Durn' some aurei of Hadrian were discovered a few years ago." Arch. Camb., 30 (1875), Report of Carmarthen Meeting, Aug. 1875, 407; 31 (1876), Miscellaneous Notices, 77, types"
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Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hermon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4EA24F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 342 no. 1404: ""The following coins, which are said to have been discovered in the camp on the farm of Hafod are in the possession of Dr. Vaughan Bowen Jones, Llanboidy. More specific details are wanting. They are not sufficiently homogeneous to have formed part of a hoard, and there may be some mistake as to their source." Den. Ant. AE Republic 1 Nero 1 Gallienus 1 Constantine I 1 Valens 1 Valens or Valentinian I 1 1 1 4 (Alexandria) RCHM Carmarthenshire (1917), 153, no. 449; ibid., 150, no. 445, gave the date of discovery as about 1800, and noted that t…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Llangan', 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-F9BC09
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 20 no. 104: ""I have seen several such caerau as you describe in my late journey: one whereof, viz. yt is like Cader Ddiminale, was in all probability a Roman Camp. For at ye entrance of it two pewter pots were discovered, full of Roman Silver coyns to ye number of two or three hundreds. I have seen about forty of them whereof ye latest was of Domitian ye most of any Emperour were of Vespasian: and about ye half were consular coyns." Letter from Edward Lluyd, 10 Oct. 1693; quoted in Arch. Camb., 3 (1848), 312 Gough's Camden (1789), II, 508, described the find as f…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bronyscawen', 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-A81B05
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
8 miliarenses, 450 siliquae and 1 bronze coin to AD 408; 3 silver spoons; 6 silver and 1 gold ring; 1 gold and 2 silver necklace clasps; fragments of pottery. NC 1999, 38.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haynes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A37EB1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 407 no. 1624: "Re. the Roman settlement at Sandy, Beds: "The recorded and extant coins comprise an alleged hoard and numerous chance finds. These have been examined by Dr. R. Reece. He comments that the hoard contains obvious contaminants, but that there may be at the core of the material a genuine Theodosian hoard, many of whose pieces have strayed into the list of general site finds. The latter range from Republican to Honorian issues. The coin series runs smoothly to the end of the 4th century, ending abruptly with the hoard of about AD 400." D.E. Johnston, in B…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B9693E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
18 denarii to Hadrian. A group of 18 denarii (Republic, 10; Augustus, 2; Nero, 1; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 3; Hadrian, 1) was found in the same field but scattered over a much wider area than the aurei (Shillington A)(Treasure Annual Report 1998-99, 284). Curteis and Burleigh state that the denarii which came from several small deposits of 3-4 denarii each and they are unlikely to be associated with the aureus hoard. Pastscape mentions evidence for votive offerings. TAR 1998-99, 284; NC 1999, 15; NC 2000, 21 and 22; CHRB XI
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillington B', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6386F3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
127 aurei (Tiberius, 3; Claudius, 8; Nero, 61; Galba, 1; Otho, 2; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 21; Titus under Vespasian, 15; Domitian under Vespasian, 11). This hoard: Tiberius (3) 1. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 25, 7.64g 2.-3. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 29, 7.65g, 7.74g. Claudius I (8) 4. EX S C/OB CIVES/SERVATOS, RIC 15, 7.71g 5. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 38, 7.63g 6. S P Q R/P P/OB C S, RIC 53, 7.71g 7. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 57, 7.69g 8.-10. EQVESTER/ OR-DO/ PRINCIPI/ IVVENT, RIC 78, 7.51g, 7.54g, 7.61g 11. AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, RIC 80, 7.56g Nero (61) 12. NERONI CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P EX 
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillington A', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-443E65
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 283 no. 1201:" "An unusually fine hoard of fourth-century coins has been found in the course of sand extraction at Tingrith. While excavating with a mechanical grab, the find was revealed high up in the sand cliff. It consisted of about 30 lbs. weight of bronze coins contained in an earthenware pot, over which had been placed a second larger pot. Above it lay an ironstone slab, to mark the burial place of the hoard. Unfortunately in the mechanical operations the pots were smashed and the coins (estimated at something over 3,000) were scattered and dispersed. Through th…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tingrith', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DBD58A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
564 base silver nummi to AD 337 (found during excavation works in a mine shaft NB see NT SMR for details). NC 1997, 40.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderley Edge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BAC014
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 114 no. 496: ""The week before last some workmen employed in a field of Mr. Wicksteed's, in Chorlton, near Malpas, to sink for marl, found at about a yard's depth from the surface, a number of Roman Coins, of the emperors Valerian and Posthumus. The pot in which the money had been deposited was mouldered into dust." -Chester, Chesh. and N. Wales Advertiser and Chronicle, 27 March 1818; copy supplied, 1978, by Glenys Lloyd-Morgan, Grosvenor Museum, Chester, and also quoted in W.T. Watkin, Roman Cheshire (1886), 309"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chorlton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6ADCF4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
52 Roman coins, 21 pot sherds, two silver finger rings and two silver gilt trumpet brooches. Addenda of 45 coins up to May 2013. BNJ forthcoming. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2012 T406 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: LVPL-AF98E8
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knutsford Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A29723
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 45-46 no. 219: ""1883. Northgate Street, E. Premises of Mr. Harvey, Ironmonger, now Mr. Partington. Thirty feet from frontage. Altar about eight feet square sunk in rock with cut steps to same. Hoard of 'large and small bronze' Roman coins (a bucket full) found in sunk coffer about 18 in. to 25 in. deep, when lowering and extending cellar. Perhaps a hiding place in a strongroom of the Praetorium. Information of Mr. Arthur Vernon, son of the contractor, and Mr. Edmund Cooper, who was present at the time. Unpublished." -P.H. Lawson, in Journ. Chest. and N. Wales Arc…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CD9DCD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 250 no. 1032: "In 1899, in the remains of a large Roman building in Bridge Street, "a number of coins (chiefly Constantines), fragments of Samian ware, etc., were found." -H. Taylor in PSA, (2), XVIII (1899-1901), 97 -The three 4th century AE coins, preserved with the antoniniani from the Chester, 1858 hoard [no. 606] in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, may have come from this find. In any case, the coins found in 1899 in Bridge Street were probably AE."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BF915F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 339 no. 1391: ""Newstead listed six coins in this hoard as Magnentius 1; Valens 3; and Valentinian I 2. Only four items have been satisfactorily identified as coming from this hoard, the remaining two pieces may have been mis-identified, given to the British Museum, or be among the general Deanery Field collection. If the last case is true, two of the items suggested at the end - which do have some superficial resemblance to the other four examples - might belong to the hoard." [see also no. 381] Inf., 1978, from Dr. Glenys Lloyd-Morgan The 4 coins, all AE, which …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester (Deanery Field)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4279D6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 337 no. 1379: "In Hunter Street, near the Odeon Cinema: "A group of eleven coins and a plain finger-ring of bronze were found lying together in the upper Roman stratum, in a cut made for the water-main in Hunter Street, April 23rd, 1936. The coins were all of bronze (3 AE) and in fair condition. Mr. Mattingly has kindly examined all the pieces and determined the doubtful ones." Although 11 coins were said to have been found, only 10 were listed. R. Newstead, in Journ. Chest. and N. Wales Archit., Arch. and Hist. Soc., n.s. 33 (1939), 61; H. Mattingly, ibid., types…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester (Hunter Street)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FA9B03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 339 no. 1390: ""Two bronze coins, one of Constantine I as Augustus, with reverse legend GLORIA EXERCITVS, and the other of Valens with reverse legend SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE, said to have been found with four more in a small metal container in Pepper Street, Chester, in 1916, were presented to the Museum by Mr. F.J. White (61-2. R. 56) Journ. Chest. and N. Wales Archit., Arch. and Hist. Soc., n.s., 44 (1957), Miscellanea, 54 The 2 coins in Grosvenor Museum, Chester, were both minted at Arles. That assigned to Constantine I may be of Constantius II, Aug., rev. GLORIA…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester (Pepper Street)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E12D15
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 80 no. 381: ""The number of coins found during the excavations was 49, 12 being of silver, and 37 of bronze. They include two very small hoards, of which the following summaries show how they were distributed respectivelth- (1) All third brass, found immediately over the hearth-stone, site IV. Magnentius 1; Valens 3; Valentinian I 2: 6 [no. 1391] (2) Pl. V, Fig. 1 (of 8 coins and ring). Found together with a small bronze ring, Site VIIA:" Then came a list of 7 den. and 1 As. -R. Newstead, in Liverpool Annals of Arch. and Anthrop., XI (1924), 64, and pl V, 1 The…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester (Deanery Field)', 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-DC12ED
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 12 no. 58: ""When Deva was in existence, the greater part of the Roodeye was covered with water, having deep water in front of, and up to the present Watergate. The evidence for this we have in the discoveries, made in June last on the site of the gas works. In an excavation made to receive a gas-holder, at the depth of twenty-three feet, there was found ordinary river gravel charged with fragments of Roman pottery and bones of living animals. The age of this material is placed beyond doubt, by the finding among it of a pig of lead, bearing an inscription correspond…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2E3D45
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 44 no. 215: ""A hoard of 598 denarii down to AD 155 is recorded." Britannia, XVIII (1987), 343; from A.M. Burnett "The hoard of 598 silver coins of the Roman Empire was found in the front garden of a house in March 1986. At an inquest held in Bristol on 1 July 1986 the coins were declared Treasure Trove. 568 of the coins have since been acquired by the Bristol Museum; the remaining 30 were acquired by the British Museum. The coins were discovered underneath a sandstone slab, possibly a Roman roof tile, which had apparently been placed over them deliberately. Alth…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lawrence Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-204184
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 363-364 no. 1495: "During the excavation of a Roman settlement at Sea Mills: "the number of coins - 153 - too, is quite remarkable, when we consider that the trenches in which they were found covered only a fraction of the area of the whole field. They included a small hoard. The hoard comprised 24 coins, all found within a circle two feet in diameter. No fragments of a jar which might have contained the coins were found, so it is supposed that they were contained within a leathern pouch or cloth bag which rotted completely away and permitted the coins to become dis…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sea Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1F362A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 8 no. 33: ""Coins marked with an asterisk in this list seem to have been a hoard or part of a hoard. Patination is identical and is distinctive. In a few cases impressions of lettering, etc., from one coin appear in the patina of another. They were all collected by the late A. Selley, Esq., 1920-3, except for no. 24 labelled as found in 1935. It will be observed that the coins are all genuine, or (with one Grade II copy) Grade I imitations." The coins from the hoard were all dup. and Asses: Dup. Asses Agrippa 5 Claudius 1(b.) 9(3 b.) Antonia 1(b.) G.C. Boon, i…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sea Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C32BC5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 261-262 no. 1095: ""In the year 1875, in the suburb of Easton, on the site of iter XIIII leading to Bath, some labourers, engaged in laying water pipes dug up a hoard so numerous that they shared the coins by the double handsful instead of counting them, and bore their prizes away in three bowler hats filled to the brim." Then came a list of 732 ant., and folles, from Gallienus to Crispus. "None of them have ever apparently been used for currency, and they were probably hidden about AD 336." -J.F. Nicholls and J. Taylor, Bristol Past and Present (1881), I, 24f. …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Easton)', grid reference and parish protected.