SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE

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Location

County

Warwickshire

Region

West Midlands

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.119803 / -1.4026024 / 187 view

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

2227

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/2227

Hoard name

SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

13 Jul 2008

(to)

31 Jul 2013

Total number of coins

1153

Summary

A hoard of 1,153 denarii (Republic to Nero, AD 64), found in a field in 2008 (1,121 specimens), with 5 additional coins found in 2012, and 2 more in 2013.

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Credit

Discovery method

Metal detector
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Warwickshire Museum
Closing reign (earliest)

Nero
Terminal year (earliest)

63
Closing reign (latest)

Nero
Terminal year (latest)

64
Opening year (earliest)

-194
Opening year (latest)

-190
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

The hoard was found adjacent to a Roman stone wall, a few hundred meters away from further Roman structures suggesting a settlement engaged in, in part, in iron-smelting.
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain structure, Settlement

Depositional context

Wall

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White-ware pot.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/2140

References

Reference

PATAR 2008

Ref

499

Reference

2009 - Coin Hoards 2009: Ancient Hoards. Britain

Ref

Reference

Ireland, S. - 2013 - The South-Warwickshire hoard of Roman denarii: a catalogue

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. PAS Leicester - British Museum dataset, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019). Coin-level data added by Marcus Spencer-Brown in collaboration with Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (Jan. 2023), data imported by M. Spoerri (Jan. 2023). Updated by C. Gazdac (July 2024).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White-ware pot.

Permalink in other online databases

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

White-ware pot.

Permalink in other online databases

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire