CHEVROCHES 2002 1

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Location

City

Chevroches

County

Nièvre

Region

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

47.456 / 3.542 / 158.96 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

12997

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/12997

Hoard name

CHEVROCHES 2002 1

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

2002

Total number of coins

Summary

46 imitations of antoniniani (radiates) of the Tetricus I and II (AD 271-274)and unidentified onject (button?).

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Built over
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

271
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Excellent

Date of excavation (from)

2001
Date of excavation (to)

2002
Site comment

Settlement started from the Neolithic, a village in Roman time and a large necropolis (200 graves) dated in the Merovingian period. Five insulae were identified for the Roman period over a surface of 14,500 sqm. Th dating of the settlement is betwwen the end of the Augustan era to the beginning of the 5th century AD.
Associated features

The hoard was found in the insula C, an area abandoned in the first years of the 5th century AD, in the filling of the service corridor of the praefurnium of a hypocaust [US 1610]. No container was found. The coins have been collected within a perimeter of less than 2 sqm.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Rural

Context

Domestic building

Depositional context

Hypocaust

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Objects belonging to this hoard

Sheet (metal)
Fragment of a blank metal sheet, circular origins and divided by four (?). It is different from a coin blank of this deposit by its yellow color. The edge accidentally is folded on one of the faces. A central fastener on the other side.

References

Reference

Gricourt, D. - 2009 - Les trouvailles monétaires de l'agglomération gallo-romaine de Chevroches (Nièvre)

Ref

104-112; 145-148 (catalogue)

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

Gricourt 2009, 184, fig. 2

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

CHEVROCHES 2002 1

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Sheet (metal)
Fragment of a blank metal sheet, circular origins and divided by four (?). It is different from a coin blank of this deposit by its yellow color. The edge accidentally is folded on one of the faces. A central fastener on the other side.

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

CHEVROCHES 2002 1

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Sheet (metal) Fragment of a blank metal sheet, circular origins and divided by four (?). It is different from a coin blank of this deposit by its yellow color. The edge accidentally is folded on one of the faces. A central fastener on the other side.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Sheet (metal)
Fragment of a blank metal sheet, circular origins and divided by four (?). It is different from a coin blank of this deposit by its yellow color. The edge accidentally is folded on one of the faces. A central fastener on the other side.