Record ID: LVPL-FA4368
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and heavily worn cast copper alloy Roman mount or stud dating to c.AD 100-200. The mount is circular in plan and flat in section. It has been cast with a slightly raised border, within which is an enamelled design. The design is well abraded but appears to have been a swirled rosette motif with at least four cresent-shaped cells filled with red enamel that together give the appearance of a rose or other type of flower. At the centre is a dot of blue enamel. The reverse is undecorated, at the centre is a well worn rasied bump which would be the remains of the i…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willaston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F9BC09
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 20 no. 104: ""I have seen several such caerau as you describe in my late journey: one whereof, viz. yt is like Cader Ddiminale, was in all probability a Roman Camp. For at ye entrance of it two pewter pots were discovered, full of Roman Silver coyns to ye number of two or three hundreds. I have seen about forty of them whereof ye latest was of Domitian ye most of any Emperour were of Vespasian: and about ye half were consular coyns." Letter from Edward Lluyd, 10 Oct. 1693; quoted in Arch. Camb., 3 (1848), 312 Gough's Camden (1789), II, 508, described the find as f…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bronyscawen', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6386F3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
127 aurei (Tiberius, 3; Claudius, 8; Nero, 61; Galba, 1; Otho, 2; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 21; Titus under Vespasian, 15; Domitian under Vespasian, 11). This hoard: Tiberius (3) 1. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 25, 7.64g 2.-3. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 29, 7.65g, 7.74g. Claudius I (8) 4. EX S C/OB CIVES/SERVATOS, RIC 15, 7.71g 5. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 38, 7.63g 6. S P Q R/P P/OB C S, RIC 53, 7.71g 7. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 57, 7.69g 8.-10. EQVESTER/ OR-DO/ PRINCIPI/ IVVENT, RIC 78, 7.51g, 7.54g, 7.61g 11. AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, RIC 80, 7.56g Nero (61) 12. NERONI CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P EX 
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillington A', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DC12ED
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 12 no. 58: ""When Deva was in existence, the greater part of the Roodeye was covered with water, having deep water in front of, and up to the present Watergate. The evidence for this we have in the discoveries, made in June last on the site of the gas works. In an excavation made to receive a gas-holder, at the depth of twenty-three feet, there was found ordinary river gravel charged with fragments of Roman pottery and bones of living animals. The age of this material is placed beyond doubt, by the finding among it of a pig of lead, bearing an inscription correspond…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-94B189
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 17-18 no. 91: ""Twenty-two Roman silver denarii were found on the 29th September 1975 during excavations at St. Michel's Field, King Street, Cirencester. Eleven coins are Republican denarii. The remainder date to the Flavian period, from AD 69 until Domitian's 13th tribunician power (AD 93/4), and so the hoard was probably buried in the years just before AD 100.": Republic 10 Mark Antony 1 Vitellius 1 Vespasian 7 Titus (under Vespasian) 1 Domitian 2 22 (1 of AD 93-4) A.M. Burnett, in CHRB I, BM Occas. Paper 5 (1979), 7f., types, wts., die axes 2 den. in …
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-9B9F9C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
3 denarii to Vespasian (found with Standish II, possibly part of the same hoard). NC 2005, 25. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2004 T312
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standish I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-793CD8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
HER record for MOLAS excavations in 2002-3 at 21 Lime Street has the following: "A brickearth demolition layer at the top of the dumping sequence, which may have also served as a floor slab, produced a hoard of ten silver denarii and some silver plated copies, including rare Republican forgeries, dated to AD 70 or later". No further details found.
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lime Street', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D36254
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,17 no. 88: "In layer B II 29B, secondary floor, of Room 33, Insula XIV: "Hoard of three: Vespasian, As, RIC 500(3): Vespasian, As: Titus, dupondius, RIC 111a." One of the Asses of Vespasian was of AD 71; the dup. of Titus was of AD 80-1. S.S. Frere, Research Rep. Soc. Ant., XXVIII (1972), 52, types. It seems doubtful whether 3 AE coins formed the whole of a hoard."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Verulamium (Insula XIV, Room 33)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DA330F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 18 no. 93: "In "St. Stephen's cemetery; excavation in the grounds of 'Sheldon' and 'Halsmead', King Harry Lane, c. 550 m south of the London Gate sectioned the Watling Street and side-ditches, and examined an area of burials on the NE side." There were 31 cremations and 29 burials. "The principal grave was that of a child; it was contained in a wooden casket, c. 0.55 by 0.45 m and c. 0.25 m deep, set in a rectangular pit slightly larger; it yielded four glass vessels, three flagons and a beaker, together with three iron objects and four coins once contained in a purse…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Albans (St Stephens Cemetery)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-229A0B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 13 no. 60: ""Easter Sunday 1976 provided a memorable experience for John D. Shepherd of the Springhead Excavation Group. Excavating within an early structure on the site he uncovered a group of five gold coins closely packed together in the clay floor. There was no surviving trace of any container possibly suggesting a small bag of cloth or leather. The coins were aurei of first century date, four bearing the head of Nero and the fifth of Titus, all minted between 58 and 75 AD" S.R. Harker, in Kent Arch, Review, 45 (1976), 113f. The 5 aurei, in Fitzwilliam Museum,…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Springhead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-9E292C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 19 no. 99: "9 May 1776 "About 100 yds. to the Eastward of Mr. Wilson's new House, on the opposite side of Church Street, there were found, on digging a Cellar a few years ago (for Mr. Hen: Baynes's new House) sevl. large hewn stones; & one abt. 6 ft. under the surface, deemed to be 1 Tun Weight, still remains in its place. Under these stones were found a great many Roman coins of Domitian, Vespasian & others. It is thought to have been the Corner Stone of a Temple, or of some other Publick Building." Rev. M. Lort, in Ms. Min. Soc. Ant., XIV (1775-6), 410 "About o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5CFA5D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 17 no. 89: ""A group of five silver denarii [was] found by the roadside north of the [Roman] fort in 1920." J.H. Hopkinson ed. The Roman Fort at Ribchester, 3 ed. by D. Atkinson (1928), 10 A "Brief Description of the Contents of the Museum at Ribchester" noted that Case V contained the series of coins from the site (Ibid., 34): "Among others the group of five silver denarii, belonging to the reigns of Vespasian and Titus (AD 69-81), may be noticed. These were found on the edge of the Roman road about forty yards north of the North Gate of the fort. The silver coi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-713A68
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 13 no. 61: "(69) (Unstratified) "Four aes coins buried c. 85-95?": Sest. Dup. As Vespasian 1 1 Titus (under Vespasian) 1 1 2 1 1 All 4 coins were minted at Lyons; the 2 of Titus were of AD 77-8. G.C. Boon, Usk: The Coins (1981), 17 C, types, mints"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Usk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-70FD85
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 13 no. 62: "During the excavation of the legionary fortress: "These five aurei were found together in Trench 11 (Section C-D, Fig. 3) in the lowest Roman layer beneath the black occupation soil of the stone barracks: they were in a hollow in the soil on the side of the trench, 4 ft. 6 in. below the modern surface.": AV Nero 2 Vespasian 1 Titus (under Vespasian) 1 Domitian (under Vespasian) 1 5 (of AD 72) (of AD 74) (of AD 73) (Lady) Aileen Fox, in Arch. Camb., 95 (1940), 101, 123f., types, pl. VIIA, figs. of coins The aureus of Titus has M engraved on o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerleon (Trench 11, Myrtle Cottage)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D13A1F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000: " "The hoard of 11 aurei and 75 denarii was found in a field near Sheep Lane, Howe, Norfolk [...], on several occasions in late 1981 and 1982 (one of the denarii had been found on its own on the site some time previously). The hoard was widely scattered, as a result of deep ploughing, over a considerable area; even the nucleus was spread over an area of 25 x 15 metres. There was no trace of any container. The pottery and building material collected from the field show the presence of at least seven tile and flint structures, but the pottery suggests that they were in …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Howe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-41EE4A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 421 no. 1781: ""About the year 1795 a large quantity of gold coins was found by a labourer employed on the site of the camp [i.e. the camp at Charlton]. (Information from an inhabitant of Charlton)." A. Beesley, Hist. of Banbury (1841), 37 VCH Northants., I (1902), 216, suggested that this find was merely a reminiscence of the discovery of an aureus of Titus which was said to have been found at Charlton, about 1820. (Cf. G. Baker, Hist. and Ant. of Northants., II (1841), 666) Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C0ED8B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 14 no. 71: ""In March, 1858, a barrow in Whichwood Forest was examined by Mr. Moodie, which presented some features of interest to numismatic science. The barrow in question was situated at Roustage. It was about 50 feet in diameter, and 5 feet high in the centre; it was formed of small loose stones, which must have been brought a considerable distance, and laid on the natural surface of the ground, which happened not to have been disturbed; the whole was then covered with a slight covering of soil. In the barrow, at some distance apart, were found five coins, four …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wychwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DA7F11
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
4 denarii to Titus (near Brecon Gaer fort) BNJ 2012, 12. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 09.20
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yscir', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3073BC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Published
A M Burnett in CHRB X, pp. 52-3 (`A hoard of 1 aureus and 13 denarii was found near Overley Hill, to the east of Wrekin, Shropshire, on 4 November 1990 by Mr J Nicholls while using a metal detector. The coins were subsequently declared Treasure Trove on 27 March 1991; three were acquired by the British Museum and the remainder by the Much Wenlock Museum. The latest coin is a denarius of Domitian Caesar struck in AD 79.'). 1 aureus (Nero); 13 denarii (Republic, 1; Augustus, 1; Tiberius, 1; Claudius I,. 1; Galba, 1; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 6; Domitian under Vespasian, 1). Nero 1. IVPPI…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Overley Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-866EC1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 14 no. 72: ""On this spot [i.e. the so-called Roman camp at Brean Down] about thirty years ago, the quarrymen were taking off the turf, before beginning to dig for stone in a fresh place, they found some Roman coins, including gold pieces of Augustus, Nero, and the elder Drusus, the last being the rarest of the three. All were in a fine state of preservation. The lettering on the coins of Nero and Augustus was as clear as when they were struck. Among other coins found at the same time were two silver denarii of Vespasian", one with JVDAEA CAPTA reverse. F.A. Knigh…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brean', grid reference and parish protected.