BARLASTON 2015

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Location

City

Barlaston

Address

Stafford (District)

County

Staffordshire

Region

West Midlands

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.946304624479 / -2.1575405305435 / 0 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

21438

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21438

Hoard name

BARLASTON 2015

Alternative names

Barlaston I

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

2015

Total number of coins

2016

Summary

The hoard consists of 1 denarius and 2015 antoniniani (radiates) in a pottery vessel and metal objects to AD 276.

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Credit

Discovery method

Metal detector
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

271
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
Opening year (earliest)

253
Opening year (latest)

260
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Recovery method

Metal detecting use
Site class

Rural

Depositional context

Ploughsoil

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

The remains of a Roman globular urn, composed of finely sorted greyware fabric, are highly likely to have served as the container for the coins. A large section of the base is intact, and a large number of wall sherds, c. 37 in total, although no fragments of the rim remain.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Iron tool
Iron tool (?) or bar: much corroded. This is not diagnostically Roman.

Lead fragments
Lead 'bloom' from a crucible.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/781226

References

Uploaded by C. Gazdac (Dec. 2025).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

BARLASTON 2015

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

The remains of a Roman globular urn, composed of finely sorted greyware fabric, are highly likely to have served as the container for the coins. A large section of the base is intact, and a large number of wall sherds, c. 37 in total, although no fragments of the rim remain.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Iron tool
Iron tool (?) or bar: much corroded. This is not diagnostically Roman.

Lead fragments
Lead 'bloom' from a crucible.

Permalink in other online databases

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

BARLASTON 2015

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

The remains of a Roman globular urn, composed of finely sorted greyware fabric, are highly likely to have served as the container for the coins. A large section of the base is intact, and a large number of wall sherds, c. 37 in total, although no fragments of the rim remain.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Iron tool Iron tool (?) or bar: much corroded. This is not diagnostically Roman.

Lead fragments Lead 'bloom' from a crucible.

Permalink in other online databases

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Iron tool
Iron tool (?) or bar: much corroded. This is not diagnostically Roman.

Lead fragments
Lead 'bloom' from a crucible.