PRUSZCZ GDAŃSKI 2

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Location

City

Pruszcz Gdański

County

Gdańsk

Region

Pomerania

Country

Poland

Ancient place

Pruszcz Gdański

Lat/Long/Alt

54.259404 / 18.650407 / 3.1 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

13700

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/13700

Hoard name

PRUSZCZ GDAŃSKI 2

Data type

Group of single finds

Date of discovery (from)

1993

Total number of coins

Summary

Funerary deposit of 5 denarii in a Late Roman grave: Trajan - Commodus (AD 192). In the same grave were found: a bronze brooch, an iron brooch, an iron bracket, one thorn, an iron firesteel and two knives.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

Archaeological Museum Gdańsk, Poland
Closing reign (earliest)

Commodus
Terminal year (earliest)

192
Closing reign (latest)

Commodus
Terminal year (latest)

192
Opening year (earliest)

103
Opening year (latest)

111
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1993
Site comment

The coins were found in grave no. 8 of the Late Roman necropolis no. 5 on the left pelvic bone of the dead, together with a bronze brooch A VI 162 and an iron brooch A VI 158, an iron bracket with semicircular frame and an elongated thorn, an iron firesteel and two iron knives.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Rural

Context

Buried land surface

Depositional context

Grave

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

References

Reference

FMRP Pomerania

Ref

191-192, no. 266

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

PRUSZCZ GDAŃSKI 2

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Brooch
bronze brooch, type A VI 162

Brooch
Iron brooch, type A VI 158

Bracket
Iron bracket, with semicircular frame

Thorn
Elongated shape

Fire steel
Iron fire steel

Knife
Two iron knives

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

PRUSZCZ GDAŃSKI 2

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Brooch bronze brooch, type A VI 162

Brooch Iron brooch, type A VI 158

Bracket Iron bracket, with semicircular frame

Thorn Elongated shape

Fire steel Iron fire steel

Knife Two iron knives

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Brooch
bronze brooch, type A VI 162

Brooch
Iron brooch, type A VI 158

Bracket
Iron bracket, with semicircular frame

Thorn
Elongated shape

Fire steel
Iron fire steel

Knife
Two iron knives