HOARD (ROMAN)

Robertson 2000, 3 no. 14A: ""The hoard was found by John Davey and Arthur Greenway while searching with metal detectors over a period of several months between July and November 1991 in a ploughed field about half a mile north of Woodham Mortimer in Essex, and was declared Treasure Trove at an inquest on 11 March 1992.

The coins were scattered by the plough over a large area, and the finders also submitted a denarius of Antoninus Pius found in the same area as the rest of the hoard: it cannot have belonged to the hoard. In addition, a sherd of grog tempered Roman coarse ware storage jar was discovered in the vicinity of the hoard, but this is also unlikely to be associated with the hoard as it survives..

The hoard consisted of the following:

Roman Republic 26

Mark Antony 2

Augustus 56

Tiberius 102

Gaius 1

Fragments 2


Total 189

R. Hobbs in CHRB IX (1992), 20-23, types, mints, weights

The whole find was acquired by Colchester Museum"

Parish: Restricted Access
District: Maldon
County: Essex
Region: Eastern
Place known as: Woodham Mortimer
Discovery method: Metal detector
Notes: 
Images of coins in file. The three fragments of Middle Bronze Age torcs from the same field could relate to late Iron Age redeposition (the fragments were chopped up into regularly sized pieces, reminiscent of the fragments found in Pershore and Westerham hoards). A denarius of Antoninus Pius was treated as a stray.