PRESTEIGNE

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Powys

Region

Wales

Country

Wales, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.264002 / -2.997143 / 144 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

1785

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/1785

Hoard name

PRESTEIGNE

Alternative names

Corton House

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1940

(to)

31 Jul 1951

Total number of coins

Summary

At least 33 denarii (Vespasian to Marcus Aurelius) found in 1940 by gardeners engaged in converting a tennis court into a vegetable patch. Pye reports that the hoard was contained in a pot with a tile lid, since lost, and that one of the finders removed at least 27 of the coins, none of which were recovered. Four further reports of coins from Corton House appear in the Transactions of the Radnorshire Society over succeeding years; whether these were new discoveries at/near the same site or part of the original find is unclear. The original size of the hoard is, therefore, uncertain, and is likely to have been larger than the 33 denarii detailed here.

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Credit

Discovery method

Gardening
Discovery depth (m)

0.45
Land Use

Garden
Disposition

Radnorshire Museum (11 coins)
Finder(s)

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (earliest)

166
Closing reign (latest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (latest)

166
Opening year (earliest)

71
Opening year (latest)

71
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1940
Date of excavation (to)

1943
Associated features

Robertson quotes a letter of 1951 stating that the gardeners who recovered the hoard also uncovered a great number of stones, "some large, some small", that "continued some distance under the tennis court". Six cartloads of these were taken away and broken up.
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Pot

Pye (1964) reports an "earthenware or metallic pot" sealed with a tile lid. Both container and tile disintegrated upon recovery and were discarded shortly afterwards.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/1709

References

Reference

Anonymous - 1951 - County Museum

Comment

Description of the find (eight denarii Nerva to Hadrian) along with a list of types and mints

Reference

Noble, F. - 1957 - Archaeological Finds in the Knighton Area October 1954 to July 1957

Ref

Comment

Details two further denarii (Titus and Trajan) found at Corton and thought to come from the hoard

Reference

Newman, C. W. - 1959 - A Second List of Denarii from Corton, Presteigne

Comment

Details eleven further denarii (Titus to Marcus Aurelius) found at Corton and thought to come from the hoard

Reference

Pye, W. R. - 1964 - A Further List of Coins from Corton, Presteigne

Comment

Details eight further denarii (Trajan to Marcus Aurelius) found at Corton and thought to come from the hoard. Included in this list is also a nummus of Arcadius which cannot be part of the hoard.

Reference

Pye, W. R. - 1965 - A Further List of Coins from Corton

Comment

Details four further denarii (Trajan to Hadrian) found at Corton and thought to come from the hoard.

Reference

Robertson

Ref

265

Reference

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

Ref

876

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. PAS Leicester - British Museum dataset, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019). Coin-level data added by M. Ball (July 2022). Record updated by M. Ball (Oct. 2023).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

PRESTEIGNE

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Pot

Pye (1964) reports an "earthenware or metallic pot" sealed with a tile lid. Both container and tile disintegrated upon recovery and were discarded shortly afterwards.

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References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

PRESTEIGNE

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Pot

Pye (1964) reports an "earthenware or metallic pot" sealed with a tile lid. Both container and tile disintegrated upon recovery and were discarded shortly afterwards.

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References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire