LLANGYNOG

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Location

City

Llangynog (Parish/Community)

Address

Powys (District)

County

Powys

Region

Wales

Country

Wales, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.816 / -3.4497 / 486.8 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

1779

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/1779

Hoard name

LLANGYNOG

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1824

(to)

31 Dec 1824

Total number of coins

Summary

Two antoniniani (radiates) – Gallienus and Victorinus – were found along with a gold ring beneath a stone in the valley side around Blaen-cwm-Pennant near Llangynog. No other information is available.

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Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

Unknown
Finder(s)

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Victorinus
Terminal year (earliest)

269
Closing reign (latest)

Victorinus
Terminal year (latest)

271
Opening year (earliest)

260
Opening year (latest)

268
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1824
Date of excavation (to)

1824
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Period

Uncertain
End period

Uncertain

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold ring
The peculiarity of the shape of the ring is that the back is round, whilst the front half has three flat sides like a hexagon cut in two. The setting of the ring consists of an intaglio in sardonyx, with the device of a lion passant. It is surrounded by a torque cable border of gold

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/1703

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-997616

References

Reference

Lewis, S. - 1833 - A Topographical Dictionary of Wales

Ref

"PENNANT or PENNANT MELANGELL"

Comment

Brief description of the find.

Reference

Hughes, J. McK. - 1890 - Gold Objects found in Montgomeryshire

Comment

Description of the ring found with the coins

Reference

Robertson

Ref

526

Reference

Guest, P. and Wells, N. - 2007 - Iron Age and Roman coins from Wales

Ref

851

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019). Record updated by M. Ball (Nov. 2023). Updated by C. Gazdac (Sep. 2025).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

LLANGYNOG

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold ring
The peculiarity of the shape of the ring is that the back is round, whilst the front half has three flat sides like a hexagon cut in two. The setting of the ring consists of an intaglio in sardonyx, with the device of a lion passant. It is surrounded by a torque cable border of gold

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References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

LLANGYNOG

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold ring The peculiarity of the shape of the ring is that the back is round, whilst the front half has three flat sides like a hexagon cut in two. The setting of the ring consists of an intaglio in sardonyx, with the device of a lion passant. It is surrounded by a torque cable border of gold

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Gold ring
The peculiarity of the shape of the ring is that the back is round, whilst the front half has three flat sides like a hexagon cut in two. The setting of the ring consists of an intaglio in sardonyx, with the device of a lion passant. It is surrounded by a torque cable border of gold