Half-a-Million Coins from Roman Britain (Almost): Data to Provide National, Regional and Site-Type Means for the Distribution of Coinage Across England and Wales
Richard Henry, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5284/1106784. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This collection comprises a corpus of Roman coins (site finds) from England and Wales. The spreadsheet data and accompanying figures were created between August 2022 and April 2023.
A corpus of Roman coins (site finds) from England and Wales. The 490,154 Roman coins are divided by Reece issue period and a modified form of ABCD Phase. The corpus provides British and regional means to aid in the preparation of coin reports in line with Historic England guidelines along with spatial data providing new opportunities for research. It provides the most comprehensive baseline available for coin loss at sites across England and Wales. For the first time this material can be interrogated in detail spatially and a new coin mean have been created for Britain as a whole, as well as for different settlement types as part of the wider social hierarchy.
The corpus is derived from a range of sources, the principal of which are derived from work by Richard Reece (1991) Philippa Walton (2012), the Roman Rural Settlement project, Portable Antiquities Scheme database (up to 2022) and Iron Age and Roman coins from Wales project (Guest and Wells 2007). This material has been supplemented through the generosity of a number of specialists providing unpublished data.
The data are available on the ADS in a range of formats, each region of Britain is broken down by county and parish/district. Within each parish the quantity of coins by Reece issue period is recorded based on the dataset this information is collated from (PAS, RRS, Walton and Other). With the latter three groups each RRS or Walton comparative site reference number is included, within 'Other' a reference for the source is noted. Generally, the 'Other' category is unpublished data. The combined quantity assemblage from all of these sources is incorporated into a spatial corpus which detailed ABCD Phases and Reece issue periods by quantity and per mill with detailed spatial and social data recorded for each parish.
