This website requires Javascript to be enabled in your browser.

Please follow the instructions to enable Javascript at http://www.enable-javascript.com/

This website requires Javascript to be enabled in your browser.

Please follow the instructions to enable Javascript at http://www.enable-javascript.com/

LA CHAPELLE-DES-MARAIS

Download CSV:

Location

City

La Chapelle-des-Marais

County

Loire-Atlantique

Region

Pays de la Loire

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

47.447403 / -2.243362 / 5 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

5929

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5929

Hoard name

LA CHAPELLE-DES-MARAIS

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1996

Total number of coins

200

Summary

The hoard was found in a ceramic urn which had been placed in a rectangular cavity under a large flat stone. Within the urn, were 100 small gold Roman coins and 200 in silver and bronze, as well as some bones. The hoard was found by a farmer when he lifted a large flat stone in a field which was bothering him. The farmer sold the coins to a collector with the exception of one coin each in gold, silver and bronze.

Details
Coins Summary
Coins
Rating
Archaeological context
Containers
Objects
References
Reports
Images
Credit

Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Closing reign (earliest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (earliest)

238
Closing reign (latest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (latest)

244
Opening year (earliest)

-27
Opening year (latest)

14
Coin-level data

Not available

Fetching coin data

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

Stone

The urn containing the hoard was concealed under a large flat stone.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bone
some ?human bone

References

Chalet, J.-A. - 1981 - Les belles heures du comté nantais

Ref

206

Reference

Ref

3 (Loire-Atlantique)

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020).