ID
510
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Hoard name
DORCHESTER 1840
Data type
Group of single finds
Date of discovery (from)
1 Jan 1840
(to)
31 Dec 1840
Total number of coins
0
Summary
In a meadow adjoining Dorchester to the eastward, some men employed in cleaning out and lowering the bed of the river found a few mutilated Roman coins of the third brass with a fragment or two of dark ware and digging a little deeper in this spot they succeeded in discovering from 300 to 400 coins curiously intermingled with fragments of thin brass, portions of brass instruments, a fibula, brass rings, rings of twisted wire, the front of a heart-shaped clasp beautifully inlaid with enamel, fragments of Samian pottery, etc., all lying on a hard bed constituted of a rude kind of cement composed of the ordinary detritus of the river, with flints, sand, large nails, and other iron fragments firmly compacted together and bearing occasional indications of scoriae. The coins were nearly all of the third brass with a few of the first brass and comprised the reigns of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Faustina I, Faustina II, Gallienus, Salonina, Postumus, Victorinus, Tetricus I, Tetricus II, Claudius II, Aurelian, Tacitus, Probus, Carausius, Allectus, Maximianus I, Crispus, etc.
