HOARD 2649

Description: De Jersey (2015): ""In the summer of 1959, during excavations by Mr. John Musty on a pre-Roman and Romano-British site on the east bank of the Avon at Armsley in the parish of Godshill, Hants, a small hoard of four Durotrigic coins was discovered together with a bronze fibula of La Tène III type" Shortt 1960, 1 Neither Shortt's account nor Musty's publication of the re-excavation of a well on the site (1973) give any further details of the context of the "hoard", or its precise association with the fibula. Musty (ibid., 37) notes that there were also twenty Roman coins from his excavations at the site, which he describes as a "small industrial settlement". Earlier investigations by Edwardes (1927) had yielded many Romano-British finds including eight Roman coins. In the absence of any more detailed information, the hoard record is of comparatively little value. The three staters are described (Shortt 1960, 1) as "showing evident signs of silver plating"."

Object type: HOARD

Last import: September 22, 2022