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IRON AGE COIN DEPOSITION AT HARLOW TEMPLE, ESSEX
Author(s) -
HASELGROVE COLIN
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1989.tb00192.x
Subject(s) - conquest , celtic languages , context (archaeology) , iron age , archaeology , history , ancient history , excavation , period (music) , temple , art , aesthetics
Summary.This paper evaluates the depositional patterning, associations and regional context of the Iron Age coins found during previous excavations at the Romano‐Celtic temple at Harlow, west Essex, in the light of renewed work now taking place there. Together, the patterns which emerge suggest that the bulk of the Iron Age coin finds from the temple site were not deposited until the late pre‐Conquest era at the earliest. Most indeed are more probably offerings of the early Roman period, when deposition of coins and brooches was at its most intensive. The nature and significance of the pre‐Conquest use of the hillock is briefly reconsidered in relation to later Iron Age and early Roman ritual and mortuary practices elsewhere in south‐east England and beyond.