WILLERSEY

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Location

City

Willersey (Parish)

Address

Cotswold (District)

County

Gloucestershire

Region

South West

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.049302 / -1.855591 / 81.9 view

Location details

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Find spot comment

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Information

700

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Hoard name

WILLERSEY

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

24 Jun 1968

(to)

24 Jun 1968

Total number of coins

Summary

Two workmen, while digging holes for the extension of a barn at Hill Farm, Willersey, Gloucestershire, unearthed the bones of two skeletons and, close by in a patch of earth, fifty-six Roman silver Coins and a silver ring. No remains of an earthenware or other container were noted. The 56 coins were: 1 denarius Constantius II, 54 siliquae, 1 light miliarense Julian II.

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Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

British Museum; Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Finder(s)

Workers
Comment

While digging holes for the extension of a barn at Hill Farm, Willersey, Gloucestershire.
Closing reign (earliest)

Julian I
Terminal year (earliest)

361
Closing reign (latest)

Julian I
Terminal year (latest)

363
Opening year (earliest)

342
Opening year (latest)

347
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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Excellent
Findspot rating

Excellent

Site comment

A section 6 feet long from north to south did produce evidence of the narrow end of a stone-lined grave where fragments of bone including human toe bones were recovered in the dark loam filling of the grave. This type of grave is typical of one of the Romano-British period. A description of the find of the coins, given to me later by an onlooker at the time, stated that they were in a mass in a hole filled with dark earth dug into the clay and lying close to and on the west side of the human bones. The hoard thus appears not to have been in a container of any sort and that it was not part of the original interments.
Site class

Rural

Context

Burial

Depositional context

Grave

Objects belonging to this hoard

Ring
The ring is of silver with a rounded hoop, widening into a plain oval bezel. On the hoop are three ridges, the outer pair having a nicked decoration, which diverge at the shoulders to continue on either side of the triangular area of the shoulder. Part of the bezel and part of one shoulder is broken away. The shape and the decoration on the hoop and shoulders are usually assigned to the third or fourth centuries AD

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/661

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-A4A7A2

References

Reference

Carson, R.A.G. - 1971 - Willersey (Glos.) Treasure Trove of Fourth Century Imperial Silver Coins

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203-206

Reference

King, C.E. - 1981 - Late Roman silver hoards in Britain and the problem of clipped siliquae

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Reference

Robertson

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1367

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).

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