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BARBAROUS RADIATE HOARDS: the INTERPRETATION of COIN DEPOSITS IN LATE THIRD‐CENTURY ROMAN BRITAIN
Author(s) -
DAVIES JOHN A.
Publication year - 1992
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.1468-0092.1992.tb00265.x
Subject(s) - hoarding (animal behavior) , interpretation (philosophy) , archaeology , history , ancient history , genealogy , geology , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , foraging
Summary:The episode of prolific coin hoarding in Roman Britain between c. 259 and 287 has never been fully explained. This paper looks at a major group of these hoards; those recognised as containing irregular antoniniani. Two distinct sub‐groups are identified, which are shown to have non‐random, almost mutually exclusive, distributions. an explanation for coin hoarding is considered which associates the location of certain deposits with the spread of coin use to new, marginal, areas of Britain.