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Description: | Treasure Case- 2007-T201
Copper-alloy fragments
1. Fragment of small copper-alloy two-piece bow brooch of dolphin type (Colchester derivative). Spring pin and catchplate missing. Surviving l.: 30.2mm W.: 16.8mm Wt.: 5.6g Hull type T94 Date: late 1st century AD.
2. Copper-alloy bead, circular, with large central piercing. D.: 13.2mm Wt.: 3.9g. Date: Roman.
3. Copper-alloy knob, originally with iron attachment, now broken; function uncertain. A similar item was found at South Shields (Allason-Jones, L. and Miket, R. 1984. The catalogue of small finds from South Shields Roman fort, Newcastle upon Tyne: cat. no. 734). L.: 25.0mm W.: 17.0mm Wt.: 23.2g Date: Roman.
4. Copper-alloy object of uncertain function, consisting of a shaft of metal, rather crudely worked, circular in section, ending in a flattened knob with a circular central piercing. The other end has a raised collar-like moulding at an angle to the shaft which is broken. Surviving l.: 34.1mm Wt.: 15.4g. Date: Roman.
Dr Richard Hobbs
Curator, Romano-British Collections, Prehistory & Europe, The British Museum
22nd December 2008
Composition of hoard
This small, early Magnentian hoard consists of a majority of coins made after the reform of AD 348, although there are eleven examples of earlier Constantinian nummi. There are no coins present from the period of the elevation of Decentius, mid-AD 351. This is best taken as the closing date of the hoard. The presence of a single Valentinianic nummus made long after the period of the main run of coins (AD 364-75) should probably be discounted as a stray intruder.
A good proportion of the hoard (18%) consists of imitations of the Fel Temp and Magnentius types. They appear close to the size of the original types as would be expected in the early stages of this coinage.
Richard Abdy | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McIntosh, Frances | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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