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Offline mwilson603

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HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« on: March 22, 2012, 02:07:08 pm »

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2012, 02:38:37 pm »
More than 30,000!

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2012, 03:21:22 pm »
Thanks for the link.
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2012, 03:44:05 pm »
Incredible news! For those interested, the coins were found in the foundations of a hotel in Beau Street, a stone's throw away from the Roman Baths.

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 04:06:09 pm »
I love when stuff like this happens.

I wonder how many other undiscovered hoards (and other antiquities) there are just waiting patiently to be unearthed?

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2012, 06:03:48 pm »
I wish I had the job of cataloging them. I'd take a pay cut to do that kind of work.

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2012, 07:34:40 pm »
Surprising. What was happening so that 30K of coins was forgotten.  Where's my time machine?
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2012, 07:42:23 am »
Wow, and yet so typical, that what is an obvious place to look for a votive offering/coin stash was the last place to be looked, rather than wandering around a field in a remote part of Britain with a metal detector.
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2012, 07:52:39 am »
Surprising. What was happening so that 30K of coins was forgotten.  Where's my time machine?


That's my question.  The article mentioned a hoard found by a guy with a metal detector; what period did those coins come from?

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2012, 08:10:56 am »
Here is some info on the Frome Hoard, found in the same county:

The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010 by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. The coins were contained in a ceramic pot 45 cm (18 in) in diameter, and date from AD 253 to 305. Most of the coins are made from debased silver or bronze. The hoard is one of the largest ever found in Britain, and is also important as it contains the largest group ever found of coins issued during the reign of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from 286 to 293 and was the first Roman emperor to strike coins in Britain.

Sam Moorhead of the Portable Antiquities Scheme suggests that in this case the pot was so large and fragile that it could not have been easily recovered without breaking it, and so the hoard may represent communal votive offerings to the gods.

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2012, 09:09:55 am »
Here is some info on the Frome Hoard, found in the same county:

Being pedantic, not the same county, but very close to one another.  I actually went to school in Bath, when it was in a county called Avon, and with boundary changes it is now classed under the horrific county name of BANES (Bath And North East Somerset), which is a different county to Somerset, where Frome is situated.

I only wish I had thought of looking for coins when I was at school!  :(

And I think that one of the problems with finding hoards like this in Bath, is that the city is extremely restrictive on new builds.  So property is excessively expensive, mainly made of Bath stone, and has been made to last.  The chances are that there are lots of coins buried there, but in a densely populated area with little new building work, or buildings being demolished for new properties to be built, many hoards will probably never have the chance to see the light of day.

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2012, 09:28:16 am »
Old Gregorian by any chance.

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2012, 09:51:55 am »
Apparently the hoard is fused together so won't be fully identifieable until they are "un-fused", although at least one coin appears to be of Philip I.

More info: http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/bath-coin-hoard.htm
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2012, 10:39:36 am »
Old Gregorian by any chance.

King Edward VI, founded in 1552.  I wasn't at the founding, although I think some of the teachers may have been :)

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2012, 11:03:57 am »
Super-cool find, but how come the hoards never seem to be Sestertii or 1st-2nd century stuff?

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2012, 11:25:21 am »
Wow, very cool!  The second didn't survive so well.  It could use casata's cleaning help!

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2012, 01:30:43 pm »
Super-cool find, but how come the hoards never seem to be Sestertii or 1st-2nd century stuff?

Here's my own, personal, mantlepiece, hoard of 2nd century sestertii, and the story of its find in the link:
http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Hoards.html#Upchurch


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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2012, 07:27:05 pm »

Here's my own, personal, mantlepiece, hoard of 2nd century sestertii, and the story of its find in the link:
http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Hoards.html#Upchurch


A really great and interesting find, and a great and interesting article!
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2012, 12:40:40 am »
And I get excited when I find a dime in the parking lot at the mall.........

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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2012, 06:40:28 pm »
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Re: HUGE hoard found in Aquae Sulis!
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2012, 05:50:45 am »
Quote from: Fides on March 27, 2012, 06:40:28 pm

I work at the Roman Baths museum cataloging coins from other hoards and from their collections! Some of the coins I have handled and see would boggle belief!

I knew about this hoard before the public; its really interesting - donate everyone!

Since the coins were found by archaeologists, and thus would have no claim under the Treasure Act, why is the museum having to purchase them? Or is it just the cost of displaying them?
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