STRATHAVEN

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Location

City

Drumclog

County

South Lanarkshire

Region

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

55.62441 / -4.16187 / 197 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

1135

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/1135

Hoard name

STRATHAVEN

Alternative names

AVONDALE; TORFOOT

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Mar 1803

Total number of coins

400

Summary

A hoard of about 400 Roman silver coins, found at Torfoot, 7 miles south-west of Strathaven, in a glass bottle, while cleaning a drain. Coins of Trajan, Antoninus Pius, Faustina, wife of Antoninus, Crispina, wife of Commodus, and various other Emperors and Empresses, &c., all in good preservation, are mentioned. About fifty of the coins were so much verdigreated and adhering together, that they were broken with a hammer by a rude and unskillful hand, in order to separate them. J. Lindsay, View of the Coinage of Scotland (1845), 265, added Hadrian, Marcus, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus to the list of emperors etc. represented. The three last names may have been due to a misunderstanding of the legends on some coins. True Republican den. would be unusual in a hoard as late as the reign of Commodus.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Closing reign (earliest)

Commodus
Terminal year (earliest)

172
Closing reign (latest)

Commodus
Terminal year (latest)

192
Opening year (latest)

98
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

The glass bottle seems to have been surrounded by several stones, artificially placed for its preservation.
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Glass bottle

The bottle was an oblong square, and sealed with a greenish pigment

References

Reference

Roman coins found in Scotland 5

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151

Reference

Robertson

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347

Reference

Dymowski, A. - 2020 - Roman imperial hoards of denarii from the European barbaricum

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442

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. Edited by M. Spoerri (Dec. 2021).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

STRATHAVEN

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Glass bottle

The bottle was an oblong square, and sealed with a greenish pigment

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

STRATHAVEN

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Glass bottle

The bottle was an oblong square, and sealed with a greenish pigment

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire