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English: A hoard of 285 Roman coins dating to the period AD 270 - 402. The hoard comprises 3 radiates and 282 nummi.

The coins were discovered using a metal detector in a field laid to grass which was regularly disturbed. They were removed from the field by the finder. The finder reports they were in a concentrated area 2 foot by 2 foot and within the topsoil. The topsoil is shallow at this point and very stony. Although the coins were in a concentrated area they were not in a discrete group, coins were separated from each other by soil and by stones suggesting some fairly strong disturbance and mixing with the surrounding soil after deposition. Although some scraps of pottery were in the area none appeared to be in conjunction with the coins, or to show any evidence of having been so, such as metal staining. The pieces were mixed, abraded and did not appear to form part of a container and were not retained by the finder. There was no other evidence of a container including no organic remains or other metal items such as nails.

This modest sized Theodosian hoard is quite early in character and so is still dominated by Valentinianic nummi with a substantial tail of the smaller module Constantinian material (2 Victories and 1 standard Gloria Exercitus (GE)) which even includes three debased radiates from the previous century. Moorhead<a href="#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> has shown that there is a distinct bias to the West Country for finds of Valentinianic hoards. An important geographical outlier to this distribution is the Kings Langley hoard from Hertfordshire (1550 AE coins to AD 378) recently published by Jérémie Chameroy in CHRB XII, pp.310-24. A similar pattern of issues may be seen in both Kings Langley and the largest of the West Country finds, Wrington in Avon (1283 AE to AD 378; published by Rodney Hudson in CHRB IX, pp.345-55).

Summary

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	Trier	Lyon	Arles	Rome	Aquileia	Siscia	Other	Uncert.	Irreg.	Total
Radiates	1	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	3
Early nummus	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Gloria Exercitus (2) etc	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	6	10
Gloria Exercitus (1) etc	9	2	1	-	-	-	-	5	-	17
2 Victories etc	26	6	2	-	-	1	-	9	2	46
FTR	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	5
Magnentian	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	4	7
Post-Mag.	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	14	16
Valentinianic	-	23	68	4	10	7	-	58	-	170
Theodosian	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	6
Arcadius & Honorius	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Illegible A3<a href="#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a>	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Illegible A4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2
Total	44	32	74	6	10	8	3	82	26	285