TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

1125. haxby, york (addenda):
4 Roman base-silver nummi (2006 T8)
Date: AD 355
Discovery: Found by Mr D Myers while metal-detecting
in 2005.
summary:
Mid-Constantinian (AD 330–335):
Urbs Roma, 1
Magnentian (AD 350–353):
Magnentius, 1
Post-Magnentian (AD 353–355):
Constantius II, 2
Discussion: For the original hoard see CHRB X, pp 398;
Treasure Annual Report 2002, no. 206; and Treasure
Annual Report 2003, no. 379.
Disposition: Generously donated by finder and
landowner to Yorkshire Museum.
S HOLMES
1126. bedford area, bedfordshire:
84 Roman base-silver nummi (2005 T143)
Date: AD 356
Discovery: Found by Mr A Bossendorfer while metaldetecting
in March 2005.
Description: This group consists of 84 coins made after
the late Roman monetary reform of AD 348.
Constantius II & Constans (AD 348–350), 36
Magnentius (AD 350–353), 40
Constantius II (AD 353–356), 1
Uncertain emperor, 7
Discussion: The legends on the reverse of the nummi
of AD 348–350 invariably read FEL(ix) TEMP(orum)
REPARATIO which can be translated as ‘happy times
are here again’. It was an optimistic hope prompted by
the year 348 coinciding with the 1,100th anniversary
of the traditional founding of Rome and the belief that
it marked the beginning of a new age for the embattled
empire. The plentiful earlier coinage of the period AD
318–348 is absent here and this is generally the case
with other ‘Fel Temp’ hoards.
Disposition: Bedford Museum, with funding from the
MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.
D THOROLD & R ABDY
1127. Winchester area I, hampshire:
7 Roman silver siliquae (2005 T199)
Date: AD 367
Discovery: Found by Mr K Halls (deceased) while
metal-detecting before 2004; reported by Mrs Halls.
Description: An exact parallel for this find can be
found in the much larger hoard from West Bagborough
(Somerset), which contained coins of a similar type and
date (Treasure Annual Report 2001, fig. 196).
Constantius II (AD 337–361), 2
Julian, as Augustus (AD 360–363), 1
Valentinian I (AD 364–375), 2
Valens (AD 364–378), 1
Irregular copy (Julian), 1
Disposition: Winchester Museums Service.
I LEINS
1128. bredon b, Worcestershire:
2 Roman silver siliquae (2006 T474b)
Date: AD 367
Discovery: Found by Mr S Burgess, Mr R Hart & Mr C
Thompson while metal-detecting in 2006.
Description:
Julian (AD 360–363 AD), 1
Valentinian I (AD 364–375), 1
Discussion: Final coin minted AD 364–367.
Note: Bredon A found at the same time (16 base silver
radiates to AD 260), same treasure number.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finders.
R ABDY & S MOORHEAD
1129. Caldecote, Northamptonshire:
54 Roman copper-alloy nummi (2006 T215)
Date: AD 378
Discovery: Found by Mr J Care & Mr P Warren while
metal-detecting in February 2006.
Description:
Late Constantinian, 1
Valentinianic, 14
Illegible nummi, 39
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finders.
R ABDY
1130. Guildford, surrey: 3 Roman silver coins
(2006 T318)
Date: AD 388
Discovery: Found by Mr R Mintern while metaldetecting
in 2000–2006.
Description:
Miliarenses:
Constantius II (AD 337–361), 1
Magnus Maximus (AD 383–388), 1 (RIC Trier 82)
Siliqua:
Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian (AD 367–375), 1
Disposition: British Museum acquired one miliarensis
of Constantius II (RIC VIII, Constantinople 131, new
officina (H)), remainder to be returned.
R ABDY
1131. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire:
9 Roman silver siliquae (2005 T186)
Date: c. AD 380s
Discovery: Found by Mr W Jacobs while metaldetecting
in November 2004.
Description:
Julian (AD 360–363), 5
Valentinian I & Valens (AD 364–367), 2
Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian (AD 367–375), 1
Valens, Gratian & Valentinian II (AD 375–378/9), 1
Gratian, Theodosius I, Valentinian II (AD 378/9–383), 1
Disposition: Stroud Museum had hoped to acquire but
withdrew, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1132. Lincoln area, Lincolnshire: 3 Roman gold solidi
(2005 T292)
Date: AD 390s
Discovery: Found by Mr R Barton while metaldetecting
in July 2005.
Description: The coins from a close-knit chronological
grouping of mint of Trier issues.
Gratian (AD 367–383), 1
Theodosius I (AD 379–395), 1
Valentinian II (AD 375–392), 1
Disposition: The Collection, Lincoln.
R ABDY
1133. bowerchalke (addenda), Wiltshire:
4 Roman silver siliquae (2005 T124)
Date: About AD 395
Discovery: Found by Mr J Adams while metal-detecting
in March 2005.
Description:
Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian (AD 367–375), 1
Theodosius I, Valentinian II, Eugenius & Arcadius
(AD 388–395), 2
Irregular, 1
Note: For the original hoard see Treasure Annual Report
2002, no. 207.
Disposition: Salisbury & South Wilshire Museum.
D ALGAR
1134. Cople area, bedfordshire (addenda):
10 Roman silver siliqae (2005 T39)
Date: AD 402
Discovery: Found by Mr M Peach while metaldetecting
between September and December 2004.
Description:
Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian (AD 367–375), 2
Gratian, Theodosius I, Valentinian II (AD 378/9–388), 1
Theodosius I, Valentinian II, Eugenius & Arcadius
(AD 388–395), 1
Honorius & Arcadius (AD 395–402), 5
Irregular, 1
Note: For the original hoard see Treasure Annual Report
2004, no. 453.
Disposition: Bedford Museum.
R ABDY
1135. Cottenham, Cambridgeshire:
3 Roman silver siliquae (2005 T524)
Date: AD 402
Discovery: Found by Mr J Baker while metal-detecting
in October 2005.
Description:
Valens, Gratian & Valentinian II (AD 375–378/9), 1
(mint of Trier?)
Honorius & Arcadius (AD 395–402), 2 (mint of Milan)
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1136. sible hedingham, Essex: 19 Roman silver
coins and a toilet implement fragment (2005 T371)
Date: AD 402
Discovery: Found by Mr J Adkin & Mr P James while
metal-detecting in September 2005.
Description:
Denarius:
Octavian (29-27 BC), 1
Siliquae:
Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian (AD 367-75), 3
Valens, Gratian & Valentinian II (AD 375-8/9), 2
Gratian, Theodosius I, Valentinian II (AD378/9-88), 1
Theodosius I, Valentinian II, Eugenius & Arcadius (AD
388-95), 1
Honorius & Arcadius (AD 395-402), 8
fragments, 3
Toilet implement fragment: Originally part of a
late Roman double-ended type of implement with
a comma-shaped ‘toothpick’ at one end, and an
‘ear-scoop’ at the other. Only part of the flat disc
characteristic of such implements and the commashaped
point survive. The obverse is decorated with
a ‘Chi-Rho’ symbol, made by a series of punched
chevrons closely set to form lines. The reverse has
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