EAST HARPTREE

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Location

Address

Mendip (District)

County

Somerset

Region

South West

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

51.283351 / -2.6466097 / 277.3 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21

Hoard name

EAST HARPTREE

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1887

(to)

31 Dec 1887

Total number of coins

1496

Summary

ca. 1496 silver coins found in a metal vessel, S.W. of the village of East Harptree, together with some cast silver ingots and a silver ring set with an intaglio. 15 miliarensis and 1481 siliqua, ranging from Constantine I to Gratian.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Disposition

British Museum (part); Bristol City Museum (part)
Comment

The three miliarenses mentioned in VCH do not match the three miliarenses added by Sir Arthur Evans in NC 1915 (both accounts credit Prof. Oman so the total number of coins is unclear). Neither have been included here. Stolen from church in 1960s-70s. According to Coin Hoards VII, 171, some coins were sold by Lawrence Fine Art, Crewkerne, 26 March 1981 (lots 850 and 873 bought by Bristol City Museum). BM accession number for 25 coins: 1887,1206.1-25. It seems that 1922,0813.1-3 are from the same hoard, although the findspot is not recorded.
Closing reign (earliest)

House of Valentinian
Terminal year (earliest)

367
Closing reign (latest)

House of Valentinian
Terminal year (latest)

378

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Good

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White metal vessel, bottle-shaped. In height it is about 9¼ inches, and 7 inches in greatest diameter, the base being 4 inches across.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ingot
Cast silver ingots

Silver ring
Silver ring with the gem - a carnelian - projecting a considerable distance beyond the socket in which it is mounted. The gem has a figure of Mars bearing a trophy and spear engraved in intaglio upon it.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/14

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-4096EB

References

Reference

Evans, J. - 1888 - On a hoard of Roman coins found at East Harptree, near Bristol

Comment

types, mints, some wts., figs. of pewter jug and silver ring

Reference

Evans, A. - 1915 - Notes on the coinage and silver currency in Roman Britain from Valentinian I to Constantine III

Ref

454 n

Comment

types, mints, added 3 more mil. to this hoard, 2 of Valens and 1 of Valentinian I. -- VCH Somerset, I (1906), 355, referred to 3 other mil., of Constantius Gallus, Valentinian and Valens, which, according to Prof. C. Oman, might have been strays from this hoard.

Reference

Archer, S. - 1979 - Late Roman gold and silver coin hoards in Britain: a gazetteer

Ref

p. 40, no. 18

Reference

Bland, R. - 1997 - Changing patterns of hoards of precious metal coins in the late Empire

Ref

no. 304

Reference

Robertson

Ref

1424

Reference

Wiegels, R. - 2003 - Silberbarren der römischen Kaiserzeit : Katalog und Versuch einer Deutung

Ref

nos. 24-28

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project. Imported and edited by M. Spoerri (June 2019 / Nov. 2024).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

EAST HARPTREE

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White metal vessel, bottle-shaped. In height it is about 9¼ inches, and 7 inches in greatest diameter, the base being 4 inches across.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ingot
Cast silver ingots

Silver ring
Silver ring with the gem - a carnelian - projecting a considerable distance beyond the socket in which it is mounted. The gem has a figure of Mars bearing a trophy and spear engraved in intaglio upon it.

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References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

EAST HARPTREE

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White metal vessel, bottle-shaped. In height it is about 9¼ inches, and 7 inches in greatest diameter, the base being 4 inches across.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ingot Cast silver ingots

Silver ring Silver ring with the gem - a carnelian - projecting a considerable distance beyond the socket in which it is mounted. The gem has a figure of Mars bearing a trophy and spear engraved in intaglio upon it.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Silver ingot
Cast silver ingots

Silver ring
Silver ring with the gem - a carnelian - projecting a considerable distance beyond the socket in which it is mounted. The gem has a figure of Mars bearing a trophy and spear engraved in intaglio upon it.