ECFN/Nomisma, Nieborow The Portable Antiquities Scheme Hoards database and research on radiate hoards from Britain Roger Bland British Museum
Hoarding project
Summary of coin hoards from Britain Period Quantity Notes Iron Age (c.150 BC AD 64) 336 Roman (AD 43-410) 2,641 Early Medieval (410-1180) Medieval (1180-1544) Post-medieval (1544-1967) 415 Total 4,618 372 (excludes Scotland) c.854 (estimate)
Rate of discovery of hoards of the Roman period and the Civil Wars (c.1640-60) from Britain
Distribution by denomination of coins in 695 radiate hoards (n = 713,315) Gold (11) Radiates (661236) Denarii (8707) Sestertii (3430) AE2 (273) Others (514)
Hoards of 274-96 (from Hobbs 2006)
(Images Moorhead, Booth & Bland 2010) The Frome hoard
(Images Moorhead, Booth & Bland 2010) Hoard of siliquae (c.ad 395) (Victor Ambrus) Reconstruction drawing of burial of the Frome hoard.
Fieldwork at Frome (Adrian Chadwick) The palaeochannel/gully near the hoard find spot. Doug Mitcham looking at the wet & clayey spring site in the next field.
Frome fieldwork, Somerset (Adrian Chadwick) View of findspot from Google Earth Approx. hoard find spot Plot from geophys survey Poss. geology and/or banks N Poss. geology and/or banks
Hoards pa, 238-296 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
Distribution of 222 hoards closing with Tetricus and Aurelian (post-reform) Issue Mairat) (after Rev. Types Date (after Mairat) Cologne issues 1-4 T I: FIDES MILITVM c. mid 271- early 272 Trier issues 1-3 T I: VICTORIA AVG; SPES PVBLICA; CONCORDIA AVG c. mid 271 mid 272 Cologne issue 5 T I: LAETITIA AVG N c. early mid 272 Trier issue 4 T I: PAX AVG, COMES AVG, SPES PVBLICA, c. mid 272 LAETITIA AVGG T II: PIETAS; PRINC IVVENT; SPES PVBLICA end 273 No. hoards of % in Normanby hoard 0 3.89% 1 3.57% 2 7.55% 24 56.36% Trier issue 5 T I: HILARITAS AVGG, VIRTVS AVGG c. end 273 9 13.09% Trier issues 5/6 T II: SPES AVGG c. end 273 20 9.99% early 274 Trier issue 6 T I: SALVS AVGG c. early 274 44 5.55% Uncertain 118 Aurelian Post-reform 274-5 4
Hoards pa, 238-296 (adjusted)
120 British and Continental hoards (data from Haupt 2001: n = 1724) 100 80 60 40 20 British hoards pa European hoards pa 0
Landscape context of hoards (courtesy Adrian Chadwick) Somerset (no. = 87) South Yorkshire (no. = 65) 9.23% (6) 28.74% (11) 16.92% (11) 58.46% (38) 31% (27) Hill summits, slopes & Plateau/ flat raised areas form 71% of all known Somerset hoard find spots. Valley bottom/floodplains are 11%, cave sites 6%, & wetlands/peat marsh 8% of the total. Cambridgeshire (no. = 61) Hill summits & slopes account for 67% of all known S. Yorks. hoard find spots, with valley bottoms or floodplains 17% (though Doncaster accounts for most of latter). Some of the floodplain sites were probably once wetlands/peat bog. 13.11% (8) 14.75% (9) 47.54& (29) Cambridgeshire is a largely low-lying landscape, and 48% of known find spots were from valley bottom or floodplain locales; but 16% of known find spots were on summits/sides of hills, with 21% on the sides or summits of low rises. Given post-medieval drainage and land reclamation, it may be that some floodplain hoards were originally deposited in wetlands, to which 10% of recorded hoards could be more securely attributed.
South Yorkshire the Cadeby Hoard (Images A.M. Chadwick, courtesy Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery). The Cadeby hoard (left) found by detectorist in 1981, within natural fissure in limestone bedrock capped with stone slab. 112 denarii & ant. of AD 194-251, within small ceramic poppy beaker. At least 10 other coin hoards & other metalwork such as brooches found at Cadeby & Sprotbrough, & also at New Edlington to S (below). Some focused on natural limestone outcrops. Also 4 silver bracelets two snake bracelets, and two with hinged fastenings, set with rough-cut carnelians.
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/earthwatcher) The River Don gorge is a dramatic landscape feature, with Cadeby visible to the north (top left). Looking south across the Conisbrough Viaduct (below), its scale is apparent. Although both sides are cut into Magnesian Limestone, just east of the gorge the lower, undulating landscape of the Sherwoood Sandstone begins, and this was perhaps an older social boundary too, possibly between the Brigantes and Corieltauvi. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/earthwatche Cadeby ( Roberts, Deegan & Berg 2010)
http://finds.org.uk
Crowd-sourcing http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org
PASt Explorers: Finds Recording in the Community A five-year project that will create a national network of volunteers who will operate as Community Finds Recording Teams (CFRTs) based around their local Finds Liaison Officer (FLO). Aims Provide training for volunteers Increase the capacity of the PAS to record finds Engage a wider audience of volunteers Engage a wider local audience through our volunteers Enable the local community to learn more about their area Foster an interest in the local community to care for their archaeological heritage.
The PAS as a tool for archaeological research Leverhulme Trust funding ( 149K) 1 RA (Dr Katherine Robbins) for 3 years, 2012-15 A study of the factors underlying PAS dataset Tool for researchers to use to help them interpret data
Mapping Constraints
Guide for researchers on using PAS data, available at: http://finds.org.uk/ research/advice