Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781785708558
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations.