Record ID: SUR-586D07
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A perhaps late Medieval to early Post Medieval copper-alloy lozengiform bifurcating strap fitting with five separate rivets to clasp the strap in the bifurcation. The fitting has a large loop at the end opposite the bifurcation with a double collar. Wear to the loop suggests suspension.
Created on: Sunday 11th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-B22222
Object type: SCEPTRE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount, probably a terminal from a sceptre, in the form of a female head with the distinctive coiffure of the Flavian or Trajanic period.
Created on: Tuesday 20th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2021
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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…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bancroft Roman Villa', 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-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-127F03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 269 no. 1125: "In 1949, during the excavation of the Roman villa at Kingweston: "The hoard of six coins found in the rubble overlying the floor of Room IV provides a terminus ante quem for this room and No. III which are structurally connected. The coins were struck AD 330-337, and none is more than slightly worn, thus suggesting a deposition by c. AD 340. It is extremely unlikely that the room was in ruins at this time, and if the coins had been hidden very much later than the death of Constantine they would surely have included pieces struck under later emperors,…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol (Kingweston Villa)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7AA7E8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 287 no. 1222: "In City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, two groups of 6 and 7 coins respectively, "from the 8 1/4 acre site at Sea Mills". The group of 6 coins was presented in 1934 by D. Hayward, and had the description "found together near eastern hedge of field". The group of 7 coins was presented by W.H. Cox, also in 1934. The two groups of coins, all AE, may possibly have come from a scattered hoard: Hayward Cox TOTAL Constantine I 1 1 Constantine II, Caes. 1 1 Constantius II, Caes. 1 1 Constantine II, or Constantius II, Caes. 1 1 Constantinopolis 2 1…
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-2905A3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 264 no. 1110: ""In 1830, coins of Constantinus Tyrannicus, Flavius Julius, and Faustina were discovered in the old fortifications at Coswinsawsen." -S. Lewis, Topog. Dict. of England, 5 ed. (1842), s.v. Gwinear -"Faustina" is probably as mistake for Fausta. VCH Cornwall, II.5 (1924), 35, described the find as "Twelve 'Third Brass' of the fourth century found in a mound of earth about 1830; some now in Truro Museum are Constantinian, two being of Constantinus Junior." 12 coins from this find in County Museum, Truro. It is not certain whether they formed the whol…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gwinear', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D8B4CB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
26 nummi and a sestertius to 340. PATAR 2007, 505; NC 2008, 33. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2007 T576 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: CORN-84F996
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lellizzick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AB9F58
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 271 no. 1133: "Carnbrea "At the foot of the same hill [i.e. Carnbrea Hill] one Mr. Bevan of Redruth discovered, in July 1749, three feet under the surface, the quantity of one pint of copper Roman coins, two only of which came to me: to wit the senior Tetricus and the Roma in pl. VII, fig. IV and V, p. 117." With the coins there were found "the head of an Animal in Brass (pl. VII, p. 117. fig. I) the hinge of some cover (fig. III) and a concave thin plate full of holes of the same metal (fig. II). The head is hollow and I take it for the head of a ram." -W. Borl…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carn Brea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8AAB98
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A purse hoard recorded by Penhallurick as being found during Radford's excavations in 1955 of the Great Ditch below the Lower Ward's outer bank on the mainland part of the Castle. The purse was not recognised as such until later on and is thought to have been a leather draw string purse which contained 10 coins.
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tintagel Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3551CC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 300 no. 1252: ""In July, 1816, there was a conflagration of the heather on the hill top which brought to light about 1500 coins found lying on the inner side of the main rampart [i.e. of Moel Fennli]. The bulk of the finds cannot now be traced but fortunately 43 coins are preserved in the Chester Museum, presented by Rev. M. [sic] A. Potts." Then came a list of 43 small AE coins. Willoughby Gardner, in Arch. Camb., 76 (1921), 247-52, types; cp. Davies and Longbottom, Cat. of the Roman Coins in the Chester Museum, in Journ. Chester Arch. Soc., n.s., XXIV (1922), 154…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Moel Fenlli', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4B5CFE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 289-290 no. 1228: "The excavation of the E. defences, in the St. Mary's Abbey Estate: showed that "In the fourth century, to counter the effect of flood-waters on the masonry, the wall and gate were repaired, a timber groyne was erected to protect the angle between the wall and the gate-tower, and a flood-gate was cut through the wall to release excess waters. Polygonal bastions on square bases were also added to the wall at intervals of c. 200 ft., the inner ditch being filled in beneath their fronts. In the silt deposited in the brackish water remaining after the …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cirencester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4689C7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 297 no. 1243: "The Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, while carrying out salvage excavations on the "Whiminster Roman Site", discovered a sandstone mortar, brooches, pottery, isolated coins (a den. of Severus, a radiate copy of Tetricus I, and a radiate minim) and a "4th century coin hoard from presumed villa site..." There were 12 AE coins in the hoard, now in Stroud District Museum P.J. Fowler and C.V. Malthew, in Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc., 90 (1971), 57 P. Aston, ibid., 60, listed 9 AE coins from the hoard: AE Constantine I 1 Co…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eastington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C32486
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 297 no. 1244: "[For Gloucester 1966b and 1966c, see nos. 1502, 1530] In 1966, during excavations at the New Market Hall, Gloucester, in masonry building, in colonia: "Hoard 1 scattered in trench AIX layer 22, horizon 13, (section AB, fig. 5)" : 20 AE: AE Constantine I 4 Constantine II, Caes. 3 Constantius II, Caes. 2 Constantinopolis 1 Urbs Roma 5 Theodora (after AD 337) 1 Constantine II, Aug. 1 Constantius II, Aug. 2 Constans, Aug. 1 20 (GLORIA EXERCITVS, 1 stand.) (GLORIA EXERCITVS, 1 stand.) (VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN) The recognisable mintmarks we…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gloucester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EB660C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 297-298 no. 1245: ""During 1828-1832 I had bought or found at Haresfield 40 Roman coins and had made an exact register of when, or where, they were found. In 1832 14 coins were brought to me which had been found near the south gate. Thereupon I started with some friends and dug on the spot where the plough had turned up the coins. We found 6 more and also pieces of a broken pot with green rust sticking to them. Five years later, when I was abroad, the pot from which the three pieces had been broken was found on the same spot, containing between 2,000 and 3,000 3rd b…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haresfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F49EF0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 278 no. 1168: ""In 1872 a man digging on West Hill, near the footpath leading to Crawley, about 1½ furlongs from the camp [i.e. Uley Bury], found in a rubbish pit fifty Roman coins with Samian and commoner pottery. These coins were of the reigns of Victorinus, Claudius, Gothicus, 268; Tacitus, 275; Constantinus [I], 337; and Constans, 337. Some of these coins passed into the hands of Mr. W. P. Phillimore, and others belong to Canon Bazeley." -Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc., XXXV (1912), 151 -The coins of Victorinus, Claudius II and Tacitus must have been ant…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3E8A7D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 298 no. 1246: "In 1885, there were exhibited at the Newport Meeting of the Cambrian Arch. Association "coins (232) found under a stone at Woolastone, by J. Till." Arch. Camb., 40 (1885), 359 "A hoard of third brass coins, about 250 in number, was discovered under a stone near Wollastone, Gloucestershire, two or three years ago; they are all of the Constantine series, and in very poor condition; the place where they were found is close to the road which connected Gloucester and Caerwent by way of the Forest of Dean". Mrs. M.E. Bagnal-Oakeley, in NC, 1890, 262 Re…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woolaston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-51C7F7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 278 no. 1171: ""During excavations carried out by the Inner London Archaeological Unit, a hoard, consisting originally of 326 pieces, was found; they were closely associated with the remains of a very large grey pot, but this seems an unlikely container for so few coins. Many of the coins were entirely oxydized and did not survive the necessary cleaning. The 250 survivors, many in a very poor condition, probably over-represent the larger types earlier than 330, and there has doubtless been a specially heavy toll of the imitations of the post-330 coinage. A single co…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lincoln Road II', grid reference and parish protected.