HESLINGTON 1966

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Location

City

Heslington (Parish)

Address

York (District)

County

York

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

53.942406 / -1.0569561 / 11.3 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

2454

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/2454

Hoard name

HESLINGTON 1966

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Mar 1966

(to)

1 Mar 1966

Total number of coins

2862

Summary

A hoard of 2,862 Roman bronze coins of the fourth century AD contained in a broken storage jar, was found by workmen a little to the south-east of College 3, then being constructed for York University on the south-west-facing slope of Heslington Hill and about 800 feet south-east of the mound called on the modern Ordnance Survey maps 'Siward's House'. Apart from two third-century Antoniniani of Tetricus I and Tacitus and some 200 small bronzes of the Constantinian dynasty between 317 and 348 the hoard was composed of the type of bronze coinage first introduced by Constantius II and Constans in 348 or by Magnentius and Decentius between 350 and 353.

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Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Yorkshire Museum (part); British Museum (part)
Finder(s)

Workers
Closing reign (earliest)

House of Constantine (RIC VIII)
Terminal year (earliest)

355
Closing reign (latest)

House of Constantine (RIC VIII)
Terminal year (latest)

363
Opening year (earliest)

275
Opening year (latest)

276
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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Good

Site comment

Before the construction work, the site had been parkland but displayed the ridge and furrow of earlier ploughing, and 18 inches of plough soil containing bone, brick, and oyster shell overlayed the place where the pot was found. Below the plough soil was natural clay into which the pot had been set, but the high water table made it impossible to examine the clay immediately around the pot. The bottom of the pot was approximately 3 feet below the present surface, and the roots of turf still visible in the mud indicated that they had not yet been altered by levelling operations.
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

The fabric is a hard grey; dark grey externally and the core light grey. The rim is simply outcurved, and the neck is burnished. Immediately below the neck and between the two deeply sunk handles is an unburnished zone scored with single loops. Below a burnished zone is another unburnished, scored with vertical lines. The rest of the pot, to the flat base, is smoothed.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/2362

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-35AE4E

References

Reference

Robertson

Ref

1366

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). Updated by C. Gazdac (Oct. 2025).

Coin Hoards
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HESLINGTON 1966

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HESLINGTON 1966

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