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MONUMENT NO. 364468

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A hoard of Roman gold coins was found in 1974 within Durobrivae town, in a field some 200 metres from the A1 road at Water Newton. There were thirty coins, all gold, including a contemporary forgery, and had been buried in unusual fashion. Originally they had been in a leather purse but this had then been placed in a very thin bronze bowl resembling a Celtic hanging bowl. This, in its turn, was then placed inside a Castor ware pot with stamped decoration. Then there were two silver vessels which had been folded flat and placed on top of the purse inside the other pots. Finally, the whole was covered by a pottery lid. The gold solidi enabled the hoard to be dated almost precisely to AD 350. The entire find is in the care of the British Museum.

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A hoard of Roman gold coins was found in 1974 within Durobrivae town (3) (TL 19 NW 62: TL 121969), in a field some 200 metres from the A1 road at Water Newton (1). There were thirty coins - all gold -including a contemporary forgery, and had been buried in unusual fashion. Originally they had been in a leather purse but this had then been placed in a very thin bronze bowl resembling a Celtic hanging bowl. This, in its turn, was then placed inside a Castor ware pot with stamped decoration. Then there were two silver vessels which had been folded flat and placed on top of the purse inside the other pots. Finally, the whole was covered by a pottery lid. The gold solidi enabled the hoard to be dated almost precisely to AD 350. The entire find is in the care of the British Museum. (1-2)

Description and discussion of the coins. (3)

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( 1) Nene Valley Research Committee Durobrivae : a review of Nene Valley Archaeology

(C Johns and R Carson) 3, 1975 Page(s)6, 10-12

( 2) Current archaeology

54, 1976 Page(s)202-3

( 3) by R A G Carson and A M Burnett ...[et al] 1979 Recent coin hoards from Roman Britain

British Museum occasional papers no.5 Page(s)99-102

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Durobrivae was the centre of the largest industrial complex known in Roman Britain. It began as a small five-acre fort which was built shortly after A...

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