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Record ID: IARCH-B33DC3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
10 coins found compacted together during excavations in Tofts Field in 1974. Recovered from surface of first re-metalling of Dere Street, to the east of the later fort, in Tofts Field.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge III', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FD133A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
21 bronze coins,found with two pebbles and a bronze ring in the fill of the outer fort ditch. Found concreted together and later separated, probably a purse hoard although no traces of a container survived.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge IV', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4FB7C6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Two miliarenses found together in F 1321 in the berm between the fort wall and the inner fort ditch.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge VI', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C1C701
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Group of 125 coins recovered from feature 0902 in subsoil of inner ditch. Found in close proximity to one another, along with scraps of bronze and a bronze ring.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge VII', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1F511E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Listed by Robertson 2000, 372-373 no. 1525A as: "A scattered hoard found in Feature 1069 during excavations inside the fort at Piercebridge between 6.5.80 and 15.6.80." This entry has now been superseded by a full listing by Brickstock (2008). The findspot of the hoard was actually just outside the E gate of the fort in vicus in Tofts Field. The hoard contains 131 coins from Septimus Severus to House of Theodosius, including two silver siliquae of Arcadius & Honorius. Feature 1068 also contained 2 bronze brooches, a silver penannular brooch, bronze rings, a stylus, bracelet frags., mi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-19E49E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 108-109 no. 484: ""A cobble and earth flood-bank was found c. 16 m north of the present course of the Piercebridge Beck and was identified for a length of 36 m. It was 2 m high by 3 m wide at the base, founded on the limestone bedrock. A hoard of approximately one hundred silver coins, deposited c. AD 260, was recovered from a section through the bank. The datable pottery [i.e. from contemporary civilian buildings] indicated an occupation from the middle to the end of the third century, and the buildings may have housed workers either at the lime kilns found just t…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E1C39A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A large quantity of votive objects and pottery recovered from the River Tees by two divers, near the remains of possible wooden structure(s) or a bridge. Finds concentrated in a 5m x 5m area towards middle of river, and include 1021 coins of AD 70-350, 72 brooches, bronze, silver and iron rings, some with garnets and intaglios, gold earring and necklace frags., 10 bracelets, medical and cosmetic instruments, seal boxes, weighing equipment, household equipment and fittings, military belt fittings, sword chapes, lead seals, iron arrowheads, copper alloy and lead figurines, bronze and bo…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge', grid reference and parish protected.