HOARD (ROMAN)

6 AR denarii to AD 4 + 1st c. AD brooch +Iron Age potin



Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2011 T778

Other PAS records associated with this hoard: LON-98EFE2

Parish: Restricted Access
District: Sevenoaks
County: Kent
Region: South East
Place known as: Ash-Cum-Ridley
Discovery method: Metal detector
Notes: 
The coins and brooch were discovered by various members of a metal-detecting club spread across the ploughsoil of one field on 25th September 2011. Individual PAS records. The potin was found spread around the same 100m x 200m area as four of the coins and the brooch, and the denarii of Mark Antony about 200m away from these and 100m apart. The brooch and the six denarii are are likely to have been deposited in the first century AD. It would be unusual to find a potin in a deposit of this date and composition, although it may suggest an earlier phase of activity at the site. Potin are often found in ritual contexts (as are mixed deposits of coins and metalwork in the early Roman period) and it may be that this find represents successive phases of ritual deposition over a longer period. For the purposes of discussion of this hoard, it is considered as a stray find