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Description: | A find of 50 Iron Age coins was made on 5th December 2010. They were found whilst metal-detecting on ploughed land in the area of a previous find of 168 Iron Age coins (Treasure case 2010 T646 WILT-057637). The coins were reported to the local Finds Liaison Officer and brought to the British Museum for identification in May 2011.The coins were collected in three groups: 20 coins from the same location as 2010 T646 (group 1 in appendix); 25 coins from a location around 80m away from this (group 2) and five found in a line between the first group and a point about 65m away (of which four were non-joining fragments of different coins) (group 3). Three of the group of 25 were removed from a block of soil later excavated at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum and thought to contain traces of wood. X-ray of the block did not reveal a container for the hoard.The coins consist of 50 silver uninscribed staters of types associated with the Durotriges, a people thought to have inhabited an area covering the modern county of Dorset, parts of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight during the late Iron Age. They date to about 60 to 20 BC and are of two similar types, ABC 2157 / VA 1235 / BMC 2525 ff and ABC 2163 / VA 1246 / BMC 2647. They were not cleaned before identification and consequently it was not possible to attribute all of the staters to one of these two types as surface detail was obscured by corrosion products. One fragmentary coin could not be identified due to its small size and abraded surface. The contents of the hoard are summarised below. The weights and CCI numbers are given in the attached appendix. The coins above have been recorded with images for the CCI as CCI nos 11.1017 to 11.1066 inclusive.Silver uninscribed staters ABC 2157 / BMC 2525 = 6Silver uninscribed staters ABC 2163 / BMC 2647 = 26Silver uninscribed staters ABC 2157 or 2163 / BMC 2525 or 2647 = 17Silver stater fragment (unidentified) = 1Total 50ABC= Cottam et al. Ancient British Coins, 2010VA = Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain, London, 1989BMC = Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum 1996CCI = Celtic Coin Index (Oxford and online www.finds.org.uk/CCI )Recommendation These coins satisfy the various criteria of the Treasure Act. They are more than 300 years old and the find comprises two or more coins with precious metal content in excess of the 10% threshold. They are of types that would be expected to be found together and it is likely that they are therefore part of the same find distributed over an area under the plough. They are the same types of silver stater that were found with the earlier find 2010 T646. Conclusion I would conclude that the present coins should be regarded as a prima facie case of treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996) and as addenda to 2010 T646.
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