| Description | Hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins contained in a pottery vessel. Found between 1827 and 1829 in an area roughly centred on SE 142 250. Evidence for this hoard is contradictory. The Lightcliffe find spot was originally shrouded in great secrecy, and the hoard was apparently broken up into several smaller parcels almost immediately upon discovery.
The complete hoard probably included an assemblage of coins supposedly found at Almondbury in 1829 (Allen 1960, pp. 261,293,295) and may also have included a gold Coritanian starter supposedly found at Huddersfield (now lost) and a base silver Armorican stater found near Halifax, now in the York Museum. Allen (1960) concludes that the combined hoard consisted of at least 18 inscribed Coritanian gold staters, around 200 Roman Republican coins, and at least 22 Roman Imperial coins to Caligula (A.D. 39 41.)
Of the Iron Age coins which survive five are in the York Museum, six are in the British Museum and three are in private hands. Details of types and inscriptions in Allen (1960). No information on the present location of any of the Roman coins from this hoard. (The preponderance of Republican issues and the dates of the Imperial issues among the Roman coins perhaps makes it likely that this is a pre Conquest Iron Age hoard rather than a Roman one. HMW). |