Yesterday I was lucky enough to have been invited by my local museum, The Royal
Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM / Exeter) to the Pre-launch of
of there recently acquired Seaton Down
Hoard.
The
hoard is the third largest found in
England, amounting to nearly 23,000
LRB's and very important for the county of Devon as
Roman hoards of any size are extremely
rare.
One coin in the
hoard also became the
Portable Antiquities Scheme's (PAS) 1,000,000 recorded item.
The museum plans to gradually
roll the coins out for a permanent exhibition following further cleaning and recording, with hopefully a detailed record of all
types represented.
the museums link
http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/news/massive-roman-hoard-discovered-in-east-devonand an extract from
Wikipedia The Seaton Down
Hoard is a
hoard of 22,000
Roman coins found in November 2013 by metal detectorist Laurence Egerton near Seaton Down in Devon,
England.
The coins were found near the site of a
Roman fort and possible villa in Honeyditches which was built in the second to third century. The coins date from AD 260 to 348. The coins are made from copper-alloy. The
hoard is one of the largest ever found of 4th-century coins in the former
Roman empire and consist of coins from the reign of
Roman emperor
Constantine I and
his family in AD 306 and the joint reign of
Constantius II and
his younger brother
Constans, from AD 337 to 340. The Royal
Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter hopes to acquire the coins.
