FALKIRK

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Location

City

Falkirk

County

Stirlingshire

Region

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancient place

Falkirk

Lat/Long/Alt

55.999391 / -3.7778416 / 28 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

3072

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/3072

Hoard name

FALKIRK

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

9 Aug 1933

Total number of coins

1925

Summary

A hoard of 1925 denarii (Republic - Severus Alexander), found during levelling operations in the area of Bell's Meadow, in Falkirk, ca. 400 m NW of the Antonine Wall, in a vessel of red earthenware. A piece of cloth had been used to protect the mouth of the vessel. A few coins were lost, but all others passed into the hands of the Crown Authorities as treasure-trove. In all, 1925 coins, comprising 1923 denarii, one drachm of Lycia, and one bronze core of a plated denarius, were examined and published in 1934 by G. MacDonald. A new list, based on visual examination of the preserved coins, is given by Robertson, Studia Paulo Naster Oblata (1982). The latter recorded only 1917 coins. The missing coins were 2 denarii of Vespasian, 1 of Domitian, 2 of Trajan, 1 of Antoninus Pius, 1 of Diva Faustina I, and one of Septimius Severus. Recent studies have shown that 3 of the denarii attributed by Sir George Macdonald to Caracalla should be assigned to Elagabalus.

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Discovery method

Building work
Disposition

NMAS, Edinburgh (pot, cloth frag. and most of the 1925 coins)
Closing reign (earliest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (earliest)

222
Closing reign (latest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (latest)

235
Opening year (earliest)

-82
Opening year (latest)

-82
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Good

Site comment

The hoard was found ca. 400 m NW of the Antonine Wall, in the vicinity of the Roman fort of Falkirk, though the Antonine Wall was abandoned about, or not long after AD 160, which is a long time before the tpq of the hoard (AD 222-235).
Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

a vessel of red earthenware

References

Reference

Roman coins found in Scotland 3

Reference

MacDonald, G. - 1934 - A hoard of Roman denarii from Scotland

Reference

Roman coins found in Scotland 4

Ref

244-5

Reference

Roman coins found in Scotland 7

Ref

129

Reference

Reece, R. - 1980 - Coins and frontiers. The Falkirk hoard reconsidered

Reference

Robertson, A.S. - 1982 - The Falkirk (1933) hoard of over 1900 denarii. A review in the light of recent research

Reference

Todd, M. - 1987 - The Falkirk hoard of denarii: trade or subsidy?

Reference

Robertson

Ref

415

Reference

Dymowski, A. - 2020 - Roman imperial hoards of denarii from the European barbaricum

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425

W. E. Metcalf dataset; K. Huber for data up to and including Nero. Updated by M. Spoerri (Dec. 2021). Brought up to coin level by R. Bennett (April 2022).

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Containers belonging to this hoard

a vessel of red earthenware

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FALKIRK

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Containers belonging to this hoard

a vessel of red earthenware

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