AMLWCH

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Location

City

Amlwch (Parish/Community)

Address

Isle of Anglesey (District)

County

Isle of Anglesey

Region

Wales

Country

Wales, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

53.410387 / -4.3634751 / 39.5 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

967

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/967

Hoard name

AMLWCH

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Nov 1937

(to)

30 Nov 1937

Total number of coins

438

Summary

2 denarii and 436 radiates (Septimius Severus to the Tetrici), two silver finger rings, and one small silver ingot found beneath a stone by workers widening a road between Amlwch and Bull Bay.

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Credit

Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Road
Disposition

National Museum Cardiff
Finder(s)

Workmen
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

272
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
Opening year (earliest)

195
Opening year (latest)

196
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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Date of excavation (from)

1937
Date of excavation (to)

1937
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Period

Uncertain
End period

Uncertain

Objects belonging to this hoard

Finger ring
Silver-coated; cut through at one point and nearly broken through at another.

Finger ring
Penannular ring with beaded decoration

Ingot

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/924

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-55A686

References

Reference

Mattingly, H. and Pearce, J. W. E. - 1939 - The Amlwch Hoard

Comment

List of types and mints

Reference

Boon, G. C. - 1967 - The Pennard Roman Imperial Hoard: An Interim Report and a List of Roman Hoards in Wales

Ref

304, no. 37

Reference

Robertson

Ref

732

Reference

Guest, P. and Wells, N. - 2007 - Iron Age and Roman coins from Wales

Ref

1091

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019). Record updated by M. Ball (Nov. 2023). Updated by C. Gazdac (Sep. 2025).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

AMLWCH

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Finger ring
Silver-coated; cut through at one point and nearly broken through at another.

Finger ring
Penannular ring with beaded decoration

Ingot

Permalink in other online databases

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

AMLWCH

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Finger ring Silver-coated; cut through at one point and nearly broken through at another.

Finger ring Penannular ring with beaded decoration

Ingot

Permalink in other online databases

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Finger ring
Silver-coated; cut through at one point and nearly broken through at another.

Finger ring
Penannular ring with beaded decoration