Cunetio Hoard
The Cunetio Hoard, also known as the Mildenhall Hoard,[1] is the largest hoard of Roman coins found in Britain. It was discovered in 1978 at the site of the Roman town of Cunetio, near modern-day Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and consisted of 54,951 low value coins. The coins were contained in a large pot and a lead container.[2] The coins are now in the British Museum[3] and the pot is on display at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.
The latest coins in the hoard were dated 270 to 274.
A smaller hoard had been found at this site in 1960.[4]
Larger hoards of Roman coins have been found at Misrata in Libya[5] and are believed to have been found at Evreux in France (100,000 coins) and Komin, Croatia (300,000 coins).[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Nigel Kerton, C4's Time Team dig in at Mildenhall, at gazetteandherald.co.uk, Friday 4 September 2009
- 1 2 Abdy 2002, pp. 32–43
- ↑ British Museum Collection
- ↑ Moorhead, Sam; Kent, John (2010). "Cunetio (1960) hoard". Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 103: 317–19.
- ↑ "Tesoro monetale di Misurata (Libya)" (in Italian). Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
Sources
- Abdy, Richard Anthony (2002), Romano-British coin hoards, Shire archaeology, No. 82, Princes Risborough: Shire, ISBN 978-0-7478-0532-8.
- Besly, Edward; Bland, Roger (1983). The Cunetio Treasure: Roman Coinage of the Third Century AD. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-0857-X.
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