LANCASTER (VICARAGE FIELD)

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Location

City

Lancaster

Address

Lancaster (District)

County

Lancashire

Region

North West

Country

England, United Kingdom

Ancient place

Lancaster

Lat/Long/Alt

54.051221 / -2.811019 / 11.1 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

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Information

1153

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/1153

Hoard name

LANCASTER (VICARAGE FIELD)

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1973

(to)

31 Dec 1973

Total number of coins

Summary

19 antoniniani (radiates) found in the debris under a floor from the bath house. 15 of the coins were found together. The coins were next to fragments of a black cooking-pot close by which may have originally housed the coins. 19 coins: Gallienus - Carausius.

Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Archaeological site
Finder(s)

Lancaster Archaeological Society under the direction of G. M. Leather
Closing reign (earliest)

Carausius
Terminal year (earliest)

286
Closing reign (latest)

Carausius
Terminal year (latest)

293
Opening year (earliest)

260
Opening year (latest)

268
Coin-level data

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Site comment

Debris under floor
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Military

Context

Bath house

Depositional context

Floor

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

LANCASTER (VICARAGE FIELD)

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Nearby were fragments of a black cooking-pot which may have been the hoard's container

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