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Description: | Circumstances of discoveryFound with the aid of a metal detector by Messrs D. R. Sherratt and D. Hutton, on arable land at a depth of about 15cm, during October 2006.Description of FindThe coins date to between AD 310 and AD 335, during the reign of Constantine the Great (AD 306-37), but featuring several other rules with whom he briefly shared power.Period 310-3 313-7 318-24 324-9 330-5 TOTAL London 4 3 1 1 - 9 Trier 7 2 3 4 - 16 Lyon 1 2 - - 1 4 Siscia - - 2 - - 2 Thessalonica - - - 1 - 1 Uncertain Mint 3 2 3 3 1 12 Illegible Fragments - - - - 4 4 TOTAL 15 9 9 9 6 48 These coins form a discrete compositional group, spanning 25 years, and are similar to recorded hoards of Constantinian date from Roman Britain (e.g. with a compositional bias towards coins made at the mints nearest to Britain and North West Europe). This would suggest that they are all from one find, representing an individual's unrecovered savings deposited together as a hoard around the AD 330s.NoteFindspot and similar types suggests these coins form addenda to the 1855 Aston Ingham hoard, (a hoard of c.2000 coins ending in the reign of Constantine the Great, 37 of which are in the Gloucester City Museum).Metal ContentAll the coins are an argentiferous copper-alloy. However as they are only about 5% silver they should be considered essentially bronze.Conclusion On the balance of probabilities, therefore, I conclude that these coins belong together as a hoard and constitute a prima facie case of treasure by being bronze coins of an antiquity greater than 300 years and are of one find of more than ten pieces. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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