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Record ID: IARCH-72FC8C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A scattered hoard of at least 409 coins (and up to 488) found in a layer of rubbly dark soil (context 4030) above in situ deposits of aisled Building 12 in the Dorset County Hospital / Hascombe Court excavations of 2001-2002.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorset County Hospital', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CB0ABA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 390 no. 1579: "At Camerton... three Roman villas were discovered in 1814 as well as a quantity (26) of silver Roman coins of Honorius, Arcadius, and the later Emperors, concealed between two Roman tiles." J.D. Phelps, Hist. and Ant. of Somerset (1836), I, 179 S. Archer, Late Roman Gold and Silver Hoards in Britain: A Gazetteer, in P.J. Casey ed. The End of Roman Britain, BAR 71 (1979), 36, no. 8, dated the discovery, wrongly, "after 1841". "
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-AAB23A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 390 no. 1583: "A small hoard of seventy-seven clipped siliquae reputedly discovered at Paulton, included one Julian, one Jovian, fourteen Valens, ten Gratian, nine Valentinian II, five Theodosius, five Magnus Maximus, three Eugenius, nine Honorius, and ten either Arcadius or Honorius." JRS, XLVII (1957), 221". Findspot uncertain; details came to light after the death of the finder. Photos of coins in BM file.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paulton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C268A4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 361 no. 1486: "About 250 denarii [sic] have recently been found on the line of the Great Western Railway, somewhere between Bath and Bristol but the exact site we have as yet been unable to ascertain. Of about 150 which were permitted to be examined, the following particulars were obtained:- They are entirely of Valens, Gratian, and Magnus Maximus: and speaking in round numbers there may have been about an equal proportion of each. The reverses are as follows:- Valens, VRBS ROMA VOT V MVLT X; Gratian, VRBS ROMA, VIRTVS ROMANORVM; Magnus Maximus, VIRTVS ROMANORVM. T…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uncertain (Between Bath and Bristol)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A73C8C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 368 no. 1513: ""On 27 August 1978 a small hoard of thirteen Roman silver coins of the late fourth century was found in a copse at the edge of a road leading to Kempston Church.. Despite the small quantity of coins and the absence of any container (it may have been of leather or cloth which had perished), the coins form a coherent group which appears to have been a hoard. Most finds of late Roman silver consist primarily of siliquae with the addition of a small number of miliarenses, but the present find of eleven miliarenses and only two siliquae is unusual." The …
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-6A709D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
1021 base-metal nummi and fragments. Ian Meadows writes: "The hoard contained coins from the late 3rd- to the late 4th-century but the vast majority of the issues were of the last 20 years of the 4th century. Nearly 41% of the assemblage was unidentifiable. The mint marks could be read for just over 5% of the examples: Trier (8), Arles (21), Lyon (15), Aquileia (7) and Rome (3). Emperors represented in the identifiable coins were; Claudius II Gothicus (1), Helena (1), Constantinopolis (2), Constantine II (2), Constantius II (3), Constans (6), Valentinian I (4), Valens (3), Gratian (2)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ely', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-8C71F8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 369-370 no. 1517: "In 1939, "this hoard of 865 coins was found in a broken grey-ware pot by workmen cutting the side of a drain on Tiled House Farm, Stretham, near Ely.. The pot in which the coins were contained was unfortunately broken, and the upper half could not be recovered. It is a jar of hard grey ware, with slightly burnished surface, with a more or less globular body and slightly expanded footstand. Had it been found unassociated with any datable object, it would probably have been assigned to a much earlier period than that to which it actually belongs." The…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stretham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5FC860
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
2 solidi (Valentinian II) AD 379-83 (1) 1. Valentinian II, rev. VICTOR-IA AVGG, Two emperors seated facing; in exergue: TROBT, RIC Trier 49(c), 1 AD 388-92 (1) 2. Valentinian II, rev. VICTOR-IA AVGG, Two emperors seated facing; in field: L D; in exergue: COM, RIC Lyon 38(a). Recorded by Nene Valley Archaeological Group from American metal detector users from Alconbury searching at Water Newton in 1975. Information courtesy of Geoffery Dannell. From within the walled Roman town of Durobrivae
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Water Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A37EB1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 407 no. 1624: "Re. the Roman settlement at Sandy, Beds: "The recorded and extant coins comprise an alleged hoard and numerous chance finds. These have been examined by Dr. R. Reece. He comments that the hoard contains obvious contaminants, but that there may be at the core of the material a genuine Theodosian hoard, many of whose pieces have strayed into the list of general site finds. The latter range from Republican to Honorian issues. The coin series runs smoothly to the end of the 4th century, ending abruptly with the hoard of about AD 400." D.E. Johnston, in B…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-204184
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 363-364 no. 1495: "During the excavation of a Roman settlement at Sea Mills: "the number of coins - 153 - too, is quite remarkable, when we consider that the trenches in which they were found covered only a fraction of the area of the whole field. They included a small hoard. The hoard comprised 24 coins, all found within a circle two feet in diameter. No fragments of a jar which might have contained the coins were found, so it is supposed that they were contained within a leathern pouch or cloth bag which rotted completely away and permitted the coins to become dis…
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-F24750
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 371 no. 1521: ""In 1702, in the parish of Tawednak, between St. Ives and the Land's-end, were found, under a prodigious rock of Moor-stone, called the Giant's Rock, a large flat stone, supported by four pillars of the same, an Urn full of ashes with a round ball of earth by the side of it, and in the said ball four score silver Coins, of the latter Emperours, very fair and well preserved. I could not have the sight of more than five of them, of which I got three, of Valentinian I, Gratian and Arcadius, the rest were seized by the Lord of the Soil." -Letter from Mr.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Zennor', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-995514
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
6 siliquae to Honorius. Thought to represent a hoard but not declared Treasure. TAR 2002, 209; NC 2003, 18. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2002 T295
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgefield', 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-D61D2D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 410 no. 1644: "During the 1968-9 excavations at Somerleigh Court: "The principal discovery was a rectangular Roman building measuring at least 16 m. long by 8 m. wide, which pottery and coins suggest was built in the late 2nd century and destroyed in the late 4th century; the substantial foundations consisted of flints packed with clay, and two internal cross-walls with similar foundations were found. Floors, where present, consisted of trampled chalk. Within the building there were six furnaces built of Portland stone, two of them slight semicircular structures; …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerleigh Court', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-028CD9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Building in the garden of 22 Crouch Street excav in 1935. Opposite S end of an apsidal ended building was a pit 6-7 ft. deep, 3 ft in diameter. Remains of wood at bottom showed it had been shuttered to hold back soft sand. It was most probably a well, though there was no peaty sludge at bottom. The contents of the pit were remarkable. Scattered throughout filling, but with earliest examples near bottom, were c. 132 coins of Trajan to Theodosius, plus 39 barbarous issues. Hull (1958, 246) considered these votive deposits in a well, as they were spread throughout fill, but with earliest…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester (22 Crouch Street)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C88EEA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
"This small hoard of Theodosian bronze coins seems to be due to an old but hitherto undisclosed discovery in a gravel pit in Cirencester Park. The only details of discovery available are that 'they were in an earthenware pot, but the pot was smashed in little pieces and had been like it for a number of years. They were about 8 ft. down and about 6 ins. from the top of a gravel layer.'. The hoard consists of 214 pieces of bronze, all of 4 AE size or smaller, but this total includes quite a number of small pieces broken off 4 AE coins. Every coin is exceedingly worn.": AE Valens 1 …
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-113641
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 366 no. 1502: "[For Gloucester, 1966a and 1966c, see nos. 1244, 1530] In 1966, during excavations at the New Market Hall, Gloucester, in masonry building, in colonia, "two hypocaust pilae were found in situ and others were subsequently seen by Mr. Garrod. In the disturbed debris above the destroyed remains of this hypocaust a scattered hoard of twenty-six coins was found ranging in date from Constantine II to Arcadius (see below p. 85, hoard 2)." "Hoard 2 scattered in the debris of the destroyed hypocaust in trench CI (p. 17)" Then came a list of 101, not 26, AE:…
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-E82954
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
[For Gloucester, 1966a and 1966b, see nos. 1244, 1502] In 1966, during excavations at the New Market Hall, Gloucester, in masonry building, in colonia: "A scattered hoard of 181 bronze coins ending with 29 of Arcadius and 12 of Honorius was found among the roofing slates and charcoal and had probably been hidden in the roof, falling when the building was burnt (hoard 3, pp. 85-6)." "Hoard 3 scattered with the late Roman group in trench BVIII layer 8, horizon 14 (section AB, fig. 5)" AE Massilia (Greek) 1 irregular radiates 2 Constantine II, Caes. 1 Constantius II, Caes. 1 Urb…
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-D0C3CA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 366 no. 1503: "During the excavation of the Roman villa at Whittington Court, in Room X, "Reception Hall", "eight coins (2 Gratian, 4 Valentinian, 1 Arcadius, 1 Theodosius) were found in a small area just above the weathered bedding of the floor in the N.W. corner of the room. These may represent a dispersed hoard." A list of coins found in the villa, with types, was given, but the 8 coins mentioned above were not distinguished from the others (although they were said to be marked with an asterisk). They appear to have been small AE. Mrs. Helen O'Neil, in Trans. B…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-CFDB1C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 385 no. 1562: "During the excavation of the Billingsgate bath-house: "Earlier baths connected with a possibly industrial use of the site have now been found. Finds include 200 late coins (some forming a scattered hoard) down to Arcadius and Honorius." Britannia, VII (1976), 350"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingsgate', grid reference and parish protected.