Record ID: NMS-47DCF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A single Roman gold coin, a solidus of Arcadius, found in exactly the same area as a hoard of 26 late Roman gold solidi and 4 silver siliquae discovered in 1993. This coin is plainly part of the same hoard, missed during the 1993 excavations. It was struck in 394-5, a date that exactly accords with the latest coins in the hoard and its crisp, almost mint state, similar to that of the other coins of this date present, suggests that it had not been in circulation long when the hoard was buried. Arcadius, solidus, mint of Milan, Roman Imperial Coinage volume IX, 35b (September 6, 394 t…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-B4E094
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman aureus of Nero (AD 54-68), dating to the period c.AD 64-65 (Reece period 3). IVPPITER CVSTOS reverse type depicting Jupiter seated left with thunderbolt and spear. Mint of Rome. As RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 153, no. 52.
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8A2A34
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman solidus of Constantius II, c.350-355 AD. Reverse: GLORIA-REI-PVBLICA, Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned. Roma facing holding spear in left hand, Constantinopolis left with sceptre in left hand and right foot resting on prow. Between them a wreath inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX. As RIC 8 no. 147, however the reverse type and particularly the lettering of the legend, which should read GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, suggest that this is an ancient copy rather than an official issue (R. Bland & P. Walton pers. comm.). At the start of the reign of Valentinian I (AD 364-75), the gold co…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-4B5F34
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Ralph Jackson, curator of Romano-British collections at the British Museum, writes: A gold earring probably of Roman date. The object is circular in plan and is made of plain gold wire of softened rectangular cross-section. The two ends of the hoop have been overlapped and twisted. There is slight damage to the twisted ends: otherwise the object is in good condition. An example of Allason-Jones Type 3 ear-ring (L. Allason-Jones, Ear-rings in Roman Britain, BAR British Series 201, 1989, esp. Nos. 29-30). See also Crummy, N. (1983) Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small …
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-0B2382
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
2. (KKGF 03 (205). sf 234).Incomplete necklace. The necklace is constructed in the same manner as no. 1, although the terminal, of which only the hook part survives, has a rectangular sheet metal cover plate wrapped around it. The chain is irregularly interspersed with a series of cut stones: there are 10 reddish-brown polyhedral faceted garnets, two disc-shaped garnets, and three cylindrical emeralds of different sizes. It is possible that some of the beads were added to substitute missing originals, with the ten faceted garnets perhaps representing the original stones and the other,…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-0B1627
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1. (KKGF 03 (205). sf 233). Fragment of a bracelet or necklace. The surviving section is composed of a series of gold filigree double-loop links, the bars of which were threaded with polyhedral faceted beads of the green stone variscite. Seven beads survive. The terminals consist of a hook and eye attachment, each of which were soldered onto the last link chain by means of a triangular plate. Both terminals survive attached to each other; one part of the chain is missing, and it is unclear exactly how long the chain was originally, although it has been suggested that this item of jew…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B9A004
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin gold sheet disc, now distorted, with repoussé decoration consisting of a central eye surrounded by (clockwise) a horse / winged horse or lion, phallus, crab, phallus, snake or tendril with leaf-shaped terminal, scorpion, an arrow, and a bow and arrow. There is a border around the edge of the disc consisting of an outer cable-like line and an inner beaded line, through which are two circular piercings about one third of the circumference apart.. Compare a similar but un-perforated repoussé gold disc with a winged phallus and a cantharus flanked by winged griffins from Colch…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-7A51A6
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find consists of a gold ring with broken intaglio which is of 1st/2nd century Roman date. Oval carnelian of flat section with oblique sides (Henig1974, 55, fig 1, Flat 1), approximately one-quarter missing, in plain, oval gold collet with lower rim and only very slight intermittent notch at top to hold intaglio. The top of the stone is broken at an oblique angle from the upper left to the middle right side. The intaglio comprises two eagles, the head and upper body of that on the right missing. The left eagle has its breast facing forward and right, its head facing back to it…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ebbsfleet River', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-64AA54
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman aureus of Nero (AD 54-68), dating to the period c.AD 66-67 (Reece period 3). IVPITTER-CVSTOS reverse type depicting Jupiter seated left holding sceptre and thunderbolt. Mint of Rome. As RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 154, no. 63.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gedgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-FCFC92
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A gold solidus of Honorius (AD 393-423) dating to the period AD 408 to 420. CONCORDIA AVGG theta reverse, minted at Constantinople. RIC X, p. 253, no. 201. This coin has been deliberately defaced on the reverse. There is an N shaped scratch in the right hand field.
Created on: Saturday 18th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Bedford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-3C0434
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman aureus of Nero (AD 54-68), dating to the period c.AD 64-65 (Reece period 3). SALVS (in exergue) reverse type depicting Salus seated left holding patera, left hand resting at her side. Mint of Rome. As RIC I, no. 59.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.