Record ID: FASAM-D129A5
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy coin or medallion with a diameter of 36mm and a weight of 13.23g. This piece is incredibly worn. On the obverse there is a faint trace of a bust right which might have the features of Carausius (AD 286-93) - sadly this cannot be captured on a photograph. Although this might seem far-fetched, the British Museum has a medallion of Carausius which measures 38mm in diameter and weighs 13.21g. The BM piece is made of orichalcum (brass) and appears to have been overstruck on an earlier dupondius of the first of second centuries AD. It is just possible that this new find is s…
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2016
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Record ID: FASAM-6FB60D
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy medallion of Carus (AD 282-3). Mint of Rome. Obv. IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG; Laureate, draped and cuirassed (deocorated breastplate) right Rev. MONETA AVGGG; Three Monetae standing left, each holding scales and cornucopiae Gnecchi vol. II, p. 120 / pl. 122, no. 1 This record is taken from a short article written by R. W. Higginbottom in Spink's Numismatic Circular (July-August 1977), p. 309. There are ten known medallions of Carus, including the one in the British Museum (noted above). R. A. G. Carson, Keeper of Coins at the British Museum, assisted in…
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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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.