TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

1097. Kings Langley, hertfordshire:
17 base-silver radiates (2006 T370)
Date: AD 269
Discovery: Found by Mrs Lusted while gardening, and
subsequently with a metal-detector between 1955 and
2006.
Description: 16 base-silver radiates of Postumus (AD
260–269) and one uncertain radiate.
Note: Thirteen coins were found during gardening
although one was given away many years ago.
Subsequent investigation with the aid of a metaldetector
by the Hertfordshire FLO, J Watters, in July
2006 revealed four further coins, all within about a 2m
x 2m area.
Disposition: Generously donated by finder (who is also
the landowner) to Dacorum Museum.
R ABDY & D THOROLD
1098. branston, Lincolnshire: 10 copper-alloy
radiates (2005 T267)
Date: AD 271
Discovery: Found by Mr S Deaton while metaldetecting
in April–June 2005.
Description: Ten copper-alloy radiates. Only five
coins are legible, and are of the rulers Gallienus (AD
253–268) and Victorinus (AD 269–271). The other five
coins are illegible apart from each bust having a radiate
crown.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
A DAUBNEY
1099. Wherstead, suffolk (addenda):
11 Roman base-silver radiates (2006 T106)
Date: Hoard deposited AD 271
Discovery: Found by Mr C Roper & Mr R Talman while
metal-detecting in February 2006.
Description:
Decius (AD 249–251), 1
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260), 1
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268), 1
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 2
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 2
Marius (AD 269), 1
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 3
Discussion: Possibly part of a previous hoard of about
2,000 radiates found in 1803, of which 6 coins remain
in Ipswich museum; for further addenda found in 1997
(11 coins) and 2000 (9 coins), see PAS IDs: SF1210–
SF1217 and SF1258.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finders.
R ABDY
1100. Childerley Gate, Cambridgeshire:
4,487 Roman base-metal radiates (2005 T253)
Date: AD 274
Discovery: Found by Albion Archaeology in July 2005,
during controlled archaeological excavation of a
Romano-British rural settlement. The hoard had been
buried within the farm enclosure in a pit that was dug
probably for this purpose.
Description: 4,487 ‘barbarous radiates’, 900 of which
were cleaned and identified (90% falling into the
category of ‘minims’):
Gallienus (AD 260–268), 5
Salonina, 1
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 31
Divus Claudius II (AD 268–270), 32
Postumus (AD 260–269), 3
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 112
Tetricus I (AD 271–274), 126
Tetricus II, 129
Victorinus or Tetricus I (AD 269–274), 9
Tetricus I or Tetricus II (AD 271–274), 26
Unidentified radiate bust, 395
Illegible, 31
Disposition: Disclaimed to remain with the main site
archive (Cambridgeshire County Archaeological Store).
A POPESCU & E PAUNOV
1101. beckfoot area, Cumbria:
19 Roman base-silver radiates (2006 T152)
Date: AD 274
Discovery: Found by Mr P Hirst while metal-detecting
in 2005.
Description: These coins are all of the denomination
known as radiates, the standard denomination of the
later part of the 3rd century AD. Originally a silver
multiple of the denarius, radiates had by this time
become debased to the point of being essentially
bronze. This hoard contains 18 radiate copies of
extremely poor quality in terms of size, shape and
literacy, as well as of preservation; when found, a
number of the coins were fused together. The physical
relationship between these suggests that, originally, the
coins may have been kept in a ‘column’, presumably
within a linen-wrapping.
Gallienus (AD 259–268), 1
Barbarous radiates, 18
Disposition: Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport,
hopes to acquire.
R ABDY & D SHOTTER
1102. poulton, Gloucestershire:
154 Roman base-silver radiates (2005 T486)
Date: AD 274
Discovery: Found by Mr P Ballinger while metaldetecting
in August 2005.
Description: 154 base-silver radiates:
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260), 9
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268), 14
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 7
Divus Claudius II, 1
Quintillus (AD 270), 2
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 36
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 54
Tetricus I & II (AD 271–274), 28
Uncertain Gallic, 1
Irregular, 2
Disposition: Corinium Museum, Cirencester had hoped
to acquire but withdrew. The British Museum acquired a
single coin (Gallienus RIC 31var, officina X); main hoard
returned to finder.
R ABDY
1103. Leckford, hampshire: 101 Roman base-silver
denarii and radiates (2006 T194)
Date: AD 274
Discovery: Found by Mr M Pond while metal-detecting
in March and April 2006.
Description: The group covers the decline of the
radiate denomination through most of the 3rd century,
by which time it had dropped from a half-silver (but
still silvery-looking) coin of around 5g to an item of
less than 5% silver weighing nearer 2g. The final coins
date to a time when Roman Britain was part of a
group of rebellious provinces under the rule of a rival
‘emperor’ (to the one in Italy) sometimes called the
‘Gallic Empire’.
Denarii:
Elagabalus (AD 218–222), 1
Severus Alexander (AD 222–235), 5
Radiates:
Gordian III (AD 238–244), 5
Philip I (AD 244–249), 2
Otacilla, 1
Decius (AD 249–251), –
Herennius Etruscus, 1
Trebonianus Gallus (AD 251–253), 1
Volusian, –
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260):
Valerian, 1
Gallienus, 8
Salonina, 1
Valerian II, 1
Saloninus, 2
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268):
Gallienus, 14
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 5
Divus Claudius II, 1
Quintillus (AD 270), 1
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 20
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 15
Tetricus I (AD 271–274), 10
Tetricus II, 2
Uncertain Gallic, 4
Disposition: Hampshire Museums Service hopes to
acquire.
R ABDY
1104. Chetwynd, Aston & Woodcote, shropshire: 56
Roman base-silver radiates (2005 T70 & 2006 T559)
Date: Hoard deposited AD 274
Discovery: The original hoard of 207 denarii and 228
radiates was found by Mr W Scott and Mr I Wild while
metal-detecting in November 2004; addenda of 13
coins found by Mr D Wild and Mr I Wild while metaldetecting
in September 2006.
Description:
Caracalla (AD 211–217), 1
Gordian III (AD 238–244), 2
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260):
Valerian, 3
Gallienus, 2
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268):
Gallienus, 4
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 2
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 13
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 9
Tetricus I (AD 271–274), 1
Uncertain emperor, 17
Irregular, 2
Discussion: This radiate hoard is slightly earlier than
the most typical British debased radiate hoards. The
addenda has extended the terminus post quem with
a solitary identifiable radiate of Tetricus, but there are
a good number of the earlier, more silvery coins of
Postumus and the pre-AD 260 Central Empire.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finders.
R ABDY
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