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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…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton Mills', 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…
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-D42AFD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 357 no. 1465: ""On Friday, August 3, some workmen digging in a chalk-pit, at Paulsgrove, on Portsdown Hill, about a mile from Porchester Castle, found a skeleton in the chalk, in the left hand of which were twenty-two Roman third brass coins. As the workmen were working underneath the spot where the skeleton was lying, it fell down, and the bones were loosened from their position and were disjointed. A day or two after another interment was met with; but only a portion of the skeleton was found, part of the skull. The bones were lying with the head towards the east…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-846CE4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 344 no. 1411: "5 May 1808 In 1800, during the excavation of a Roman villa: "the spaces between the piers [i.e. of the hypocaust] were filled with rubbish; between two of these piers more than two hundred coins were found, lying all together; they were of the Lower Empire, from Constantine to Gratian, many of them in the most perfect state of preservation, but none of them valuable for their rarity." S. Lysons, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XXXI (1806-8), 505f., and in Arch., XVIII (1815), 115"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rodmarton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-BB720C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 350 no. 1434: ""The account of the Foxcote Tumulus, as given by Mr. Norwood, is interesting and worthy of notation. The following are the facts as supplied by Mr. Norwood:- A party of antiquaries, General Younghusband, Captain Bell, Mr. E. Harford, Dr. Bird, and the Rev. T.W. Norwood, visited the locality referred to on the 25th February, 1863, where they found the remains of what had been a large Tumulus, about 20 yards in diameter. There were no indications of those large stones which mark so characteristically so many Cotteswold barrows. A heap of greasy black e…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxcote', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3979B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 351 no. 1439: ""A hoard of forty-four bronze coins mainly Valentinianic, was found in July 1984 during observation of redevelopment work on Hay's Wharfby the Museum of London's Department of Greater London Archaeology (Southwark and Lambeth). The hoard was in an exposed section of a machine-dug trench. It appeared to lie in a shallow depression, c. 20cm deep and c. 20cm in diameter, overlying a dark grey sandy silt which may have been a Roman foreshore deposit. It was sealed by a layer of grey clay which represented post-Roman (possibly Mediaeval) flooding. The fin…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotton's Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C103C1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
IARCH record for a scattered hoard of 36 siliquae and one (stray?) nummus found with a metal detector. The site was later investigated by test-pitting but no features were found. Two ceramic sherds were found during this work but it is not certain if they relate to a container for the hoard. See LVPL-B38AFC for details and images. Unpublished catalogue by Vanessa Oakden, David Shotter and Richard Abdy.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dutton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D9CF66
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
"A scatter of 71 fourth century billon and bronze coins was found in a shingle bank on the eastern side of the mouth of the creek at Fishbourne Beach, Wootton Creek, Isle of Wight, over a period of several months during the winter of 1987-1988, by metal detector user Mr Tom Winch. All of the coins found were taken to the Isle of Wight County Council Archaeological Unit for study. The coins were located in an area of about twenty square metres, in the intertidal zone, just below the high water mark. There was no trace of a container. Other finds from the same area include Roman glasswa…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fishbourne Beach', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E569F9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 359-360, no. 1478: " "On December 27, 1978, Mr. D. Perkins found, with a metal detector, a hoard of 47 Roman silver coins on Gallows Hill, Thetford. The coins were found in a compact mass in a single spade-full of soil; there was no sign of a container. At a Coroner's Inquest held at Thetford on March 6, 1979 the hoard was found to be Treasure Trove.. The coins are all silver siliquae. The majority are in excellent condition, but are slightly worn, indicating that they were in circulation for only a short period of time.. The findspot was just south of one of the barrows o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A84623
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 344-345 no. 1411A: ""The hoard was discovered in 1984 by Mr D Cook of Winford using a metal detector in the parish of Wrington, Avon. The total number of coins is 1,283, including 18 illegible pieces and fragments. The earliest coins in the hoard are three barbarous radiates in the style of the Tetrici, while the rest of the coins span the years 330-383, with the GLORIA ROMANORVM and the SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE reverses of Valentinian I, Valens and Gratian from the mint of Aquileia (no. 999), which may be dated to 378-83. The date of deposition of the hoard is likely …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wrington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E5352F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 364 no. 1496: ""Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., has forwarded to the Committee the annexed list of Roman coins recently found in an urn, on Mr. Gordon's estate, at Milverton, Somersetshire." The coins were all sil.: Sil. Julian II 3 Valentinian I 3 Valens 7 Valentinian II 2 Theodosius 6 Magnus Maximus 16 Arcadius 1 "Faustina" 7 45 AJ, IV (1847), 145f."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3D360E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 358-359 no. 1475: "In 1938, "the peat-beds of Shapwick Moor which had already given us the two silver hoards [nos. 1497, 1584] have now yielded up a third hoard - this time of bronze. The coins, numbering over 1100, were contained in a canister-shaped pewter vessel, measuring 8 3/8 in. in height and 3 1/16 in. in diameter. Their finder was the same Mr. P.S. Mullins, of Meare, to whom we owe the discovery of Shapwick II [no. 1497]." The coins were 4 ant. and 1116 AE (although the total no. of coins listed was said to be 1111). The listing was according to mints. …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shapwick III', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A98B21
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 364 no. 1498: ""This hoard of Roman coins, which was found at Wiveliscombe (Somerset) on March 4, 1946, is now in the Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle. It ranges from AD 270-c. AD 388, but about three-quarters of it is massed on the reigns of Valentinian I, Valens, and Gratian, so that it almost looks as if the whole hoard were a set of scattered accumulations containing in itself a 'Valentinian' hoard of more normal character." The coins were 1 sil., 10 ant., and 1128 small AE: Sil. Ant. AE Tetricus I 7 Tetricus II 3 Constantine I 6 Constantine II, Caes…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiveliscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D04CA8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 358 no. 1471: "A solidus of Magnus Maximus (RIC 2(B)), found at South Shields in building work has been regarded as a hoard, although a single find. -P.J. Casey, in CH III (1977), 68, no. 214 Cp. SCMB, 1976, 318, 476 R.J. Brickstock, in BAR 176 (1987), 392, no. 94, has included this solidus of Maximus in his gazetteer of late Roman bronze hoards. In South Shields Roman Fort Museum. Said to have been found with Victorian and Indian coins."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Shields', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-000AF8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 322-323 no. 1338: "(A) and (B) At Nettleton, during the excavation of the West Lodge (Building XVIII): "From the coins found in Building XVIII two groups of coins have been listed separately as they seem to belong to hoards or deposits. Both groups belong to the middle and end of the fourth century, but although the first was found as a group and noted as such, the second group only became apparent during the identification of the coins, when it was noticed that a large number of coins from a single deposit were remarkably similar in date, degree of wear, patina…
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettleton (Shrine of Apollo) B', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-172943
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Details from Pastscape: "111 Roman coins were found at Witham Friary when draining a field belonging to Mr James Croom. They were well preserved, about the sizes of shillings and sixpences, and all but one were found in a round hole covered by a flat stone, about 12 inches below the surface. Some pieces of Roman ware were found at the same time....The collection was dispersed, but six siliquae, Julian II - Magnus Maximus (AD 360-388), were bought by J W Singer, the Frome brass founder, and are now in Somerset County Museum. Taunton Museum supposedly have no record of these coins, but …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witham Friary', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-7DD396
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
"A hoard of 147 copper alloy late Roman coins, deposited between AD 379-388. A large flint nodule was placed on top."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Park', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-215399
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 357-8 no. 1470: ""On 27 October 1976 two workmen found a small hoard of Roman fourth century silver siliquae in a trench on a building site at Hillgrounds, Kempston, Bedfordshire. The coins were found closely grouped together, but there was no trace of a container. A coroner's inquest declared the find to be a treasure trove. The hoard includes coins from Constantius II to Magnus Maximus, covering the period from about AD 360 to 388." Then came a list of the 53 sil. according to mints. R.A.G. Carson, in CHRB I, BM Occas. Paper 5 (1979), 103f., types, mints, wts. …
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-88EFAA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 361 no. 1483: "15 April 1915 "Mr. Sharp Ogden, F.S.A., showed 15 bronze coins of Constantine I to Magnus Maximus struck in London, in remarkably fine condition, from the Great Orme's Head find." (NC, 1915, Proc., 12)"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Orme', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E3496E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Bland and Loriot (2010, 139-140): "1. Lake District HER 4006 (`A gold coin of Theodosius I (AD 379-395) found c. 1800 in the foundations of the pele tower at Muncaster Castle (SMR 1981). In the Castle Museum. The insciption reads: obv. D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG; rev. VICTORIA AVGG TROBC (Shotter).') = TCWAAS 2, 48, (1948) p. 219 (`At Muncaster Castle a gold coin of Theodosius I was found ca. 1800 in the foundations of the 14th century pele tower; it is in Lady Ramsden's collection at Muncaster, where I have seen it.') = TCWAAS 2, 58 (1958), p. 23 (`solidus of Theodosius I at Muncaster…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Muncaster', grid reference and parish protected.