Find Spot record MDO5777 - Coin hoard and other finds of Roman date, Horton

A hoard of 139 bronze coins ranging from Antoninus Pius to Valens was found in a stream bed before 1875. Pottery, including seven complete pots, a spear-head, a wheel-hub, an amber bead, and other material of Roman date was found in the same area.

The finds were made in a stream at the foot of a hill, and to the north of the field known as Horton Pond. <1>

A possibly votive deposit found in June 1875. Consisted of 139 bronze coins ranging from Antoninus Pius to Valens was accompanied by Iron Age, Samian and New Forest pottery, including seven complete pots. An iron spear head, a bronze wheel hub, an amber bead and fragments of bronze shield or scabbard binding were also recovered. <2>

<1> Wake Smart, T W, Discovery of Roman Coins at Horton (Unpublished document). SDO16820.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 37 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(15) Coin hoard, pottery etc, possibly a votive deposit were found shortly before 1875 in the gravel of a former stream-bed, in the village, N. of (14). A hoard of 139 bronze coins ranging from Antoninus Pius to Valens was accompanied by Iron-Age, samian, and New Forest pottery, including seven complete pots. An iron spear-head, a bronze wheel-hub, an amber bead and fragments of a bronze shield or scabbard binding were also recovered. The finds, together with notes, are in D.C.M.'

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1991, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1990, 138 (Serial). SDO90.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213045 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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