WESTBURY

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Location

City

Westbury sub Mendip

Address

Sedgemoor (District)

County

Somerset

Region

South West

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

51.235859926947 / -2.7168682319613 / 0 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

21533

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21533

Hoard name

WESTBURY

Alternative names

Westbury sub Mendip

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

21 May 2016

Total number of coins

Summary

The discovery included a hoard of 90 antoniniani (radiates) dating back to AD 274, along with 5 sherds of pottery and 3 nails.

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Discovery method

Metal detector
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Wells and Mendip Museum
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

271
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
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

Poor

Recovery method

Metal detecting use
Site class

Rural

Depositional context

Ploughsoil

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Some fragments of greyware pottery together with a basal sherd might potentially have been the coin container. However, in addition to the coin container, there are fragments from more than one pot and three well-corroded ancient nails, which are likely stray materials associated with the coins.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Three nails

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/790440

References

Uploaded by C. Gazdac (Dec. 2025).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

WESTBURY

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Some fragments of greyware pottery together with a basal sherd might potentially have been the coin container. However, in addition to the coin container, there are fragments from more than one pot and three well-corroded ancient nails, which are likely stray materials associated with the coins.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Three nails

Permalink in other online databases

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

WESTBURY

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Some fragments of greyware pottery together with a basal sherd might potentially have been the coin container. However, in addition to the coin container, there are fragments from more than one pot and three well-corroded ancient nails, which are likely stray materials associated with the coins.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Three nails

Permalink in other online databases

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire