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Description: | CORONER'S REPORTCircumstance of discoveryTwo coins were found about 500m apart from each other, on opposite sides of the same field, on an adjacent field to the findspot of an earlier hoard recovered from 2001 onwards and declared Treasure in 2003 (see PAS ref WAW-A87636 for second coin).The CoinsBoth coins are Iron Age silver units of North Eastern type. They originated in the East Midlands and are generally attributed to a tribe known as the Corieltavi. This coin date to the first half of the first century AD and can be summarised as follows:1. North Eastern (Corieltavi) uninscribed silver unit (Leicestershire hoard type uninscribed 3a) VA 877 = BMC 3218 Weight: 1.04g (Note: reverse upside down)Relationship to the earlier findThe site of the earlier find declared Treasure and published by Ian Leins (British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), pp.22-48), was the subject of archaeological investigation. The excavations suggested that the majority of the coins were deposited in a series of discrete groups as part of a ritual act or religious observance in the middle decades of the first century AD. Religious sites of this kind where a series of votive offerings were made at the same location (whether by different people at different times or on the same occasion) are mentioned in the Revised Treasure Act Code of Practice (paragraph 15) as a class of site that is embraced by the definition of Treasure. As the geographical extent of this activity has not been determined and may have been spread over a wide area, this, and the fact that these two coins are of the types contained in the earlier hoard, suggests that they are likely to have been part of this activity. The distance between the coins indicates that they probably do not relate directly to each other as a hoard, but they both relate to the deposits discussed above and should therefore be seen to represent an addenda to the finds declared Treasure in 2003.
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