BIRDOSWALD 1930

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Location

City

Waterhead (Parish)

Address

Carlisle (District)

County

Cumbria

Region

North West

Country

England, United Kingdom

Ancient place

Banna/Birdoswald

Lat/Long/Alt

54.987056 / -2.6109968 / 163.4 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

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Information

402

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/402

Hoard name

BIRDOSWALD 1930

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1930

(to)

31 Dec 1930

Total number of coins

Summary

During the excavation of a barrack block in the Roman fort at Birdoswald a hoard of thirty denarii, held in a pot-base and "pushed into the floor": Republic - Hadrian.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Disposition

Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery
Closing reign (earliest)

Hadrian
Terminal year (earliest)

119
Closing reign (latest)

Hadrian
Terminal year (latest)

125
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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Military

Context

Fort

Depositional context

Floor

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

The base was that "of a small cooking-pot of coarse fabric, with highly burnished black exterior surface. There were faint traces of iron in the pot, suggestive of a rag pinned round it."

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/378

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-C2B8BB

References

Reference

Richmond, I.A. - 1931 - Excavations on Hadrian's Wall in the Birdoswald - Pike Hill Sector, 1930

Ref

130-131

Comment

catalogue (Cohen)

Reference

Shotter, D. - 1990 - Roman Coins from North-West England

Ref

179

Reference

Robertson

Ref

131

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 (Feb. 2025)

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

BIRDOSWALD 1930

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

The base was that "of a small cooking-pot of coarse fabric, with highly burnished black exterior surface. There were faint traces of iron in the pot, suggestive of a rag pinned round it."

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References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

BIRDOSWALD 1930

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

The base was that "of a small cooking-pot of coarse fabric, with highly burnished black exterior surface. There were faint traces of iron in the pot, suggestive of a rag pinned round it."

Permalink in other online databases

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Coin Hoards
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