TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

1113. Rendham, suffolk:
22 Roman base-metal nummi (2006 T213)
Date: AD 299
Discovery: Found by Mr I Palmer while metal-detecting
in April 2006.
Description:
Diocletian (AD 284–305), 2
Constantius I Caesar, 1
Uncertain emperor, 19
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1114. Corton, suffolk: Concreted group of Roman
copper-alloy minims (2005 T473)
Date: Late 3rd or 4th century AD
Discovery: Found by Mr T Mann while metal-detecting
in August 2004 and July 2005.
Description: A concreted group of small coins, with
a further three which probably also belong to the
same hoard. Heavy concretions render it impossible
to determine how many minims are present but the
number is probably somewhere in the region of forty or
fifty. Total weight of the concretion: 88.06g.
Disposition: Generously donated by finder and
landowner to Lowestoft Museum.
A MARSDEN
1115. sherfield on Loddon, hampshire:
19 base-silver nummi (2006 T611)
Date: AD 313
Discovery: Found by Mr C Lacy while metal-detecting
in December 2006.
Description: Base-silver nummi:
Constantine I, Maximian (retired) and Galerius
(AD 307–310), 3
Constantine I, Maximinus II and Licinius I
(AD 309–313), 16
Disposition: Hampshire Museums Service hopes to
acquire.
R ABDY
1116. bury st Edmunds area, suffolk (addendum):
A Roman base-silver nummus (2006 T68)
Date: Hoard deposited AD 313
Discovery: Found by Mr M Frost while metal-detecting
in February 2006.
Description: Base-silver nummus:
Maximian (2nd reign, AD 306–308), 1
Discussion: For original hoard of 13 nummi see
Treasure Annual Report 2004 no. 446.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
J PLOUVIEZ & F MINTER
1117. Knockin, shropshire:
22 Roman base-silver nummi (2005 T71)
Date: AD 329
Discovery: Found by Mr A Davies & Mr C Delamont
while metal-detecting in December 2004.
Description: 22 base-metal nummi:
Early-Constantinian (AD 318–321), 4
Beat(a) Tranquillitas etc (AD 321–324), 8
Sarmatia, Vot X/XX etc (AD 323–324), 7
Providentiae (AD 324–329), 2
Irregular, 1
Disposition: Shropshire County Museums Service.
R ABDY
1118. snodland, Kent:
3,600+ coins and associated pottery (2006 T467)
Date: AD 330s
Discovery: Found during a geo-technical survey by
Geo-Environmental Services Ltd during geophysical
survey prior to development, in September 2006.
Description: A Constantinian nummus hoard.
Note: Conservation by the Department of
Conservation, British Museum.
Disposition: To be determined.
R ABDY
1119. hale area, Lincolnshire:
881 Roman base-metal nummi (2006 T410)
Date: c. AD 337
Discovery: Found by Mr S Gandy while metaldetecting
in the autumn of 2006.
Description: All the coins are of a low denomination
commonly known as the nummus, produced at
a number of mints around the empire. With the
exception of a few more elderly survivors (the pre-
318 issues) these coins belong to one coinage system
and form a discrete compositional group of coins that
would have been current in Britain in the AD 330s.
Early Constantinian I (AD 307–317), 4
Early Constantinian II (AD 318–329), 84
Gloria Exercitus etc (AD 330–335), 740
Gloria Exercitus etc (AD 335–337), 1
Uncertain (partially legible), 11
Uncertain (completely illegible), 41
Note: No pottery was discovered in situ; however, the
finder described seeing what looked like leather at the
bottom of the pile of coins, which disintegrated on
contact.
Disposition: The Collection, Lincoln had hoped to
acquire but withdrew; returned to finder.
A DAUBNEY
1120. bourn Airfield, Cambridgeshire:
15 Roman base-silver nummi (2005 T537)
Date: AD 348
Discovery: Found by Albion Archaeology in November
2005, during controlled excavation of a Romano-British
rural settlement. The coins were recovered from the fill
of a boundary ditch that enclosed the settlement.
Description: 15 Constantinian nummi:
Gloria Exercitus, 2 standards (AD 330–335), 5
Constantinopolis (AD 330–340), 3
Pax Publica (AD 337–341), 1
Two Victories (AD 346–348), 1
Irregular ‘Gloria Exercitus, 2 standards’, 1
Irregular ‘Constantinopolis’, 1
Irregular ‘Urbs Roma’, 3
Disposition: Disclaimed to remain with the main site
archive (Cambridgeshire County Archaeological Store).
P GUEST & N WELLS
1121. Catcote, hartlepool: 21 Roman base-silver
base-metal nummi (2006 T333)
Date: AD 348
Discovery: Found by Tees Archaeology during
controlled excavation in June 2003.
Description: 21 Constantinian nummi:
Early nummi (AD 318–324), 9
Early nummi (AD 324–329), 3
Gloria Exercitus (2), 8
Gloria Exercitus (1), –
Two Victories, 1
Disposition: Disclaimed to remain with the main site
archive (Hartlepool Museum).
R COLLINS & R ABDY
1122. Leicester, Leicestershire:
445 Roman base-silver nummi (2006 T311)
Date: AD 348.
Discovery: Found by University of Leicester
Archaeological Services during controlled excavation
of a Roman townhouse in Vine St, many tightly packed
into a possible wooden chest.
summary:
Nummi of AD 318–324:
Beata Tranquilitas, 117
Virtus Exercit, 3
Nummi of AD 324–329:
Camp Gateway, 115
Wreath, 73
Sarmatia Devicta, 30
Salus Reipublicae, 5
Securitas Reipublicae, 10
Spes Reipublicae, 2
Nummi of AD 330–335:
Gloria Exercitus 2 Standards, 36
Constantinopolis, 24
Urbs Roma, 24
Nummus of AD 335–340:
Gloria Exercitus 1 Standard, 1
Nummus of AD 347–348:
Two Victories, 1
Unidentifiable, 4
Discussion: For further information see www.le.ac. uk/
ulas/projects/vine_st.html
Disposition: Disclaimed to remain with the main site
archive (University of Leicestershire Archaeological
Service).
W SCOTT
1123. West Wycombe II, buckinghamshire:
31 Roman base-silver nummi (2005 T43)
Date: AD 354
Discovery: Found by Mr P Barry, Mr A Blackman & Mr
G Gray while metal-detecting in January 2005.
Description:
Constantius II & Constans (AD 348–350)
‘Galley’, 9
‘Hut’, 3
Fallen Horseman, 2
Magnentius (AD 350–353)
Felicitas, 10
Gloria, 1
Two Victories, 2
Illegible nummi, 4
Discussion: The first group of coins was produced
during the joint reign of Constantius II (AD 337–361)
and his younger brother Constans (AD 337–350).
Constans was the last legitimate emperor to visit
Britain. The second part are issues of the half-British
usurper Magnentius who eliminated Constans and
briefly made himself emperor of the west until
brought down by the surviving brother. Shortly after
Magnentius’s downfall Constantius reformed the
coinage, removing the usurper’s coins from circulation.
It is possible that these coins had become useless
by 353–354 or, worse still, represented an unwanted
association with a discredited régime.
Disposition: Buckinghamshire County Museum.
R ABDY
1124. milton Keynes: 1,471 Roman base-silver coins
and associated pottery (2006 T631)
Date: AD 355
Discovery: Found by Mr D Phillips & Mr B Plason while
metal-detecting in December 2006.
Description: A Magnentian nummus hoard.
Note: Conservation by the Department of
Conservation,
British Museum.
Disposition: To be determined.
H FLYNN
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