Record ID: SUSS-5C54B2
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy medallion of the emperor Antoninus Pius (AD138-161), depicting Jupiter, Minerva and Juno, struck at Rome between AD 140 and 144. Gnecchi vol II, no. 66 - Three other specimens are recorded, in Milan, Paris and Vienna. Obverse: [ANTONINVS AVG] PIV[S P P TR P COS III]; laureate head left Reverse: Minerva, Jupiter and Juno seated facing; Minerva holds a spear, Jupiter a thunderbolt and sceptre, Juno a patera and sceptre.
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ticehurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-BA42D8
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copy of a copper-alloy medallion of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar (AD 138-61), struck at 'Rome' AD 155-6 (Reece Period 7). Obverse: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII FIL TR P X COS II; Bare-headed and draped right Reverse: Anepigraphic: Minerva standing left with shield behind, holding out right hand towards Vulcan seated right, holding thunderbolt. Between them, anvil on pedestal. cf. Gnecchi, I Medaglioni Romani, volume 2, p.35 (pl. 65, no. 3) This medallion is cast from a specimen in Naples Museum, Italy (no. 15997) - information kindly supplied by prof. Dr. Franz Mittag at the U…
Created on: Friday 2nd August 2013
Last updated: Friday 23rd August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chesterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-8553C1
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy medallion of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar (AD 139-161) (Reece Period 7) minted in Rome. Reverse: Apollo Salutaris standing left, holding serpent staff, between a tree and thymiaterium. Neither obverse nor reverse type are published in Gnecchi, Medaglione Romani (1912). However, the reverse type, struck from the same dies, is known for Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61) - see J. M. C. Toynbee, Roman Medallions (1965), p. 138 & pl. XXIII, no. 5, with a reference to P. L. Strack, Untersuchungen zur römischen Reichsprägung des zweiten Jarhunderts III (1938), Taf. 4, nr. 563. T…
Created on: Wednesday 11th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-12D212
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 22-23 no. 118: ""On the 17th. November, 1806, on the south-west side of Trinity Court, near the Turnpike Road, or main street of Walcot (the ancient Foss Road) some labourers found a hoard of nearly one hundred Roman Coins." The following 79 were listed: Republic 15 Nero 5 Vespasian 28 Titus 2 Domitian 15 Nerva 13 Trajan 1 79 "A few days after, a Medal of Nero, and one of Antoninus Pius were found on the same spot." H.M. Scarth, Aquae Sulis (1864), 98 The Republican coins were certainly silver, but the metal of the others is uncertain. "" Entry from …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bath (Trinity Court)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E9B8B8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
"During the excavation of the native British site at Hengistbury Head, on site 33: "Coins were found lying on the surface and all through the soil in the area indicated by the dotted line in fig. 17. The soil was riddled with rabbit burrows, and it was undoubtedly these animals that had caused the dispersion of the coins, a few having afterwards been carried farther afield by the plough. The coins had evidently been deposited in bundles, probably wrapped in basket-work, as a fibrous matter was found adhering to many of them. The largest collection, a mass of 734 coins lying on a sto…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hengistbury Head', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F0E78F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,38 no. 190: ""Some workmen employed in digging for stone at Limloe Hill, near Royston, lately discovered the remains of several bodies, one of which, in a most perfect state, was timely saved from their mutilation. It was carefully taken up by Mr. Deck, practical chemist of Huntingdon, and forms very nearly an entire skeleton. Upon the breast were numerous pieces of broken pottery, evidently the remains of urns of fine workmanship, and several coins of Claudius, and Vespasian, and Faustina." Mr. Kempe, in Gent. Mag., 1833, I, 453"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Royston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A14E2A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
17 sestertii and 6 dupondii/asses to Antoninus Pius. Another hoard found on the same site [to be confirmed]. TAR 2004, 430; NC 2005, 29. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2004 T083
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Neots', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A29723
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 45-46 no. 219: ""1883. Northgate Street, E. Premises of Mr. Harvey, Ironmonger, now Mr. Partington. Thirty feet from frontage. Altar about eight feet square sunk in rock with cut steps to same. Hoard of 'large and small bronze' Roman coins (a bucket full) found in sunk coffer about 18 in. to 25 in. deep, when lowering and extending cellar. Perhaps a hiding place in a strongroom of the Praetorium. Information of Mr. Arthur Vernon, son of the contractor, and Mr. Edmund Cooper, who was present at the time. Unpublished." -P.H. Lawson, in Journ. Chest. and N. Wales Arc…
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-2E3D45
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 44 no. 215: ""A hoard of 598 denarii down to AD 155 is recorded." Britannia, XVIII (1987), 343; from A.M. Burnett "The hoard of 598 silver coins of the Roman Empire was found in the front garden of a house in March 1986. At an inquest held in Bristol on 1 July 1986 the coins were declared Treasure Trove. 568 of the coins have since been acquired by the Bristol Museum; the remaining 30 were acquired by the British Museum. The coins were discovered underneath a sandstone slab, possibly a Roman roof tile, which had apparently been placed over them deliberately. Alth…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lawrence Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DF7B6E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Derby
Workflow stage: Published
25 denarii to AD 161 - "hoard 1" Davies 2000. Found in the fill of a stake hole "as a compact mass of coins which probably had been deposited in a cloth or leather container, although no evidence of this was found in the concretion".
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FE8866
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 37-38 no. 188: "Re. the Roman Cemeteries of Luguvallium: "On Thursday, July 2nd, 1829, a fall of earth took place on the east side of the new cutting through Gallows Hill.. (a) A fortnight later, on Thursday, July 16, a kist of strong flags was found, 7 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 4 inches broad, and 2 feet 6 inches deep; it was 6 feet below the surface, and was covered with rough slabs of oak. It contained a leaden coffin, 6 feet 10 inches in length and about 2 feet in width; there had been an outer coffin of oak, 7 feet 2 inches long, which was quite decayed; no …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlisle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-14E99B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 34-35 no. 174A: "P.J. Casey, in M.G. Jarrett, Maryport and its Garrison (TCWAS Extra series, XXII, 1976), 46-8, discussed the coins, and referred to "the seventeen counterfeit denarii noted in CW 2, 12. It seems likely that these constituted a single forger's hoard, or were perhaps votive material." In a letter, Nov. 1988, P.J. Casey corrected the above reference to TCWAS, n.s., XV (1915), 170f., where the list of c. 125 Roman coins at Netherhall, found with numerous other antiquities from in or near Maryport (pp. 135-72), included 17 "forged" den., of Nerva (3), …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maryport?', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4CFF74
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
58 denarii to Antoninus Pius (plus probably unrelated IA stater) (not connected with siliqua hoard from same parish). NC 2011. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T575 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: DOR-A7D747
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints I', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2CFFA7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of 36 coins (31 bronze and 6 silver) "from 76 BC to AD 180 or 270" found during Pitt Rivers' excavations at the settlement site of Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley. Said to have been found with the remains of a bronze-mounted casket near a hearth, possibly within a house. "... the discovery here, within an oblong area of ' depression ' and near a hearth, of the remains of a bronze-mounted ornamental casket, with glass, a silver spoon, a penannular brooch, etc., and 31 bronze and 6 silver coins, from Claudius I to Claudius II (268-70)". (Hawkes, C.F.C. 1947, 'Britons, Romans, and S…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodcutts Common', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D743A6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A silver coin hoard of Roman denarii, found during archaeological excavations of the route of the East Kent Access Road by Oxford Wessex Archaeology in 2010. See PAS record for details. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T432 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: PAS-BCE1F7
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Kent Access Road', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F9CBD3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Manchester
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 35-36 no. 178: "Worsley Collection. "This collection, the property of the Earl of Ellesmere, hitherto kept at Worsley Hall, now kindly lent by him to the City of Manchester, consists of (a) 89 coins found in operations involving the moving of soil on the Castlefield estate between May 22, 1828, and June 10, 1829, and (b) 7 coins found at Bittern Pits in March, 1829. Unfortunately they have all suffered serious injury from damp, and probably came from some buried hoards. So far as they can all be identified, all but two of the Castlefield coins form a fairly continuo…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manchester (Castlefield)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B318D7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of 62 denarii and 42 bronze coins, two sets of two cosmetic grinders, key and finger rings. Pottery was also found. TAR 2000, 26; NC 2001, 21.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EF6281
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 40-1: " "On 6 August 1985, Mr George Onslow dug a narrow trench with a mechanical excavator on a building site at Snettisham in Norfolk. He then cleaned it up by hand with a shovel, and was curious to see the rim of a jar protruding from the bottom. He dug out the vessel, carried it home and, to his astonishment, discovered that it contained a vast collection of coins and jewellery. He straightaway reported the find to his employer and then took it to the local museum, whence it made its way to the British Museum since the hoard included a large quantity of silver item…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snettisham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DCED6A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
4 aurei (Nero, 1; Vespasian, 1; Antoninus Pius, 2). Many other metal-detected finds from site, Roman-post-medieval. Nero (1) 1. IANVM CLVSIT PACE PR TERRA MARIQ PARTA, RIC 50/58, AD 64-6, found 1996. Vespasian (1) 2. COS ITER TR POT, Lyon, RIC 1106, AD 70, 7.01g, found 2002 (Norfolk Archaeology 44, 1, 2002, p. 144, 45 illus. (A Popescu): `same obv. die as BMC 374) Antoninus Pius (2) 3. No legend, RIC 160, AD 145-61, found 1998 4. TR POT XXI COS IIII, RIC 279c, AD 157-8, 7.07g, found 2003 (Norfolk Archaeology 44, 3, 2004, p. 557, 23, illus. (A Marsden).)
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yelverton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3A6FF0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 33 no. 169A: ""A hoard of 12 denarii were found by N. Shiel during excavations at Corbridge in 1969...": Vespasian 2 RIC 37, 90 Trajan 4 RIC 96, 104, 115, 129 Hadrian 3 RIC 41a, 165, 178 Sabina 2 RIC Hadr. 398D, 398 head l. Antoninus Pius 1 RIC 137 P.J. Casey in M.C. Bishop and J.N. Dore, Corbridge, excavations of the Roman fort and town 1947-80, English Heritage Archaeological Report 8 (1988), 154; M.F. Sekulla (unpublished)"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corbridge (hoard 7)', grid reference and parish protected.