DJUPBRUNNS

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Location

City

Nystugu

County

Visby

Region

Gotland

Country

Sweden

Lat/Long/Alt

57.480762 / 18.335052 / 33 view

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Hobergsåker

Information

15467

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Hoard name

DJUPBRUNNS

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1873

(to)

1874

Total number of coins

212

Summary

212 denarii found with a box: Nero - Septimius Severus (Cludius Albinus Caesar) (AD 194-195). Together were found 1 bronze box, 2 gold bracteates, 1 spiral rod and 1 gilt silver ring.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Swedish History Museum, Stockholm (inv.nos. 5204 coins; 4877 objects)
Finder(s)

Christoffer Johansson, Carl Svensson and Frans Oscar Svensson
Comment

Th e coins and the other objects were found in the so called Hobergsåker, in 1873 and 1874. 200 coins and the box containing the other objects were found in 1873, under a couple of stones, the coins by the farmer Christoffer Johansson and the farm-hand Carl Svensson, the box by the boy Frans Oscar Svensson. In 1874 Carl Svensson found 11 more denarii in the same place as where the other coins had been unearthed.
Closing reign (earliest)

Septimius Severus
Terminal year (earliest)

194
Closing reign (latest)

Septimius Severus
Terminal year (latest)

195
Opening year (earliest)

64
Opening year (latest)

68
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