GAUMONT/SAINT-MARTIN

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Location

City

Angers

Address

34 Marechal Foch Ave

County

Maine-et-Loire

Region

Pays de la Loire

Country

France

Ancient place

Iuliomagus

Lat/Long/Alt

47.468 / -0.551 / 46.55 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Old cinema Gaumont. Iuliomagus, residence of civitas Andecaves.

Information

12805

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/12805

Hoard name

GAUMONT/SAINT-MARTIN

Alternative names

ANGERS

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1991

Total number of coins

Summary

35 aurei of Augustus: 33 Lugdunum, 1 Pergamum, 1 uncertain mint (2 BC - AD 4).

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Museum of Angers; Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (galvanic-plastic copies)
Closing reign (earliest)

Augustus
Terminal year (earliest)

-2
Closing reign (latest)

Augustus
Terminal year (latest)

4
Opening year (earliest)

-29
Opening year (latest)

-27
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Good

Date of excavation (from)

1989
Date of excavation (to)

1991
Site comment

Iuliomagus, civitas Andecaves
Associated features

The archaeological levels indicate an occupation of the place from the Augustan period until the Late Middle Ages. The Augustan context is characterized small buildings in earth and wood, ditches and pits, and is organized according to a regular orthogonal plan. At the top of these levels, dated from 10 BC to 15 AD, it was discovered the small ceramic vessel containing 35 aurei. Although the stratigraphic context is locally disturbed by the digging of a well of the modern era, it appears that this level (US 1087) is covered by a level of destruction (US 1059) of this first phase of housing.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban

Context

Domestic building

Period

Roman
End period

Medieval

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic mug

Restored edge diameter: 6.3 cm Height: 7.7 cm Bottom diameter: 3.5 cm Fumigated wheel-made ceramic vesel, small right edge thickened internally terminated by a tapered lip. The ovoid belly is attached is ending with a flat bottom. The paste is homogeneous, fine, gray-brown in color, with a degreasing agent consisting of fine inclusions of quartz grains, feldspar and mica. Inside the container is engobed. The outer surface of the vase bears the traces of a black slip, smoothed, preserved on the edge and the top of the belly. At the discovery, part of the edge and the belly was missing. The pot is a common type, used throughout the 1st century AD. It is similar to the Ménez 146 dated, according to Breton sites known at that time, from 35 to 70 AD. Amandry, M., Aubin, G. and Mortreau, M., p. 53

References

Reference

Amandry, M., Aubin, G. and Mortreau, M. - 2001 - Le trésor d'aurei augustéens de la Gaumont, Saint-Martin à Angers (Maine-et-Loire), 1991

Ref

43-56

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Comment

Amandry, M., Aubin, G. and Mortreau, M., p. 44

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Ceramic mug

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