Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

Chapter 3. Approaching hoarding and deposition -- Introduction -- Iron Age and Roman coin hoard studies in perspective -- Prevailing economic and ritual perspectives -- Archaeological approaches to hoarding and deposition -- The meaning of coinage -- Value and materiality -- Processes of hoarding --...

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Main Author: Bland, Roger
Other Authors: Chadwick, Adrian, Haselgrove, Colin, Mattingly, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2020.
Subjects:
Coins, Ancient.
Coins, Ancient
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • The origins of the project
  • The context of current research into hoards
  • Investigating coin hoards
  • Research questions
  • Methodology
  • Archaeological and historical background
  • This volume
  • Chapter 2. Overview and analysis of the dataset of coin hoards
  • Introduction
  • The dataset
  • Chronological distribution of hoards
  • Regional variation in the chronological distribution of hoards
  • Hoard contents
  • Discussion: Hoarding in the landscape
  • Chapter 5. Hoards and their archaeological contexts
  • Introduction
  • Types of archaeological sites on which hoards have been found
  • Military sites
  • Towns
  • Rural settlements and villas
  • Religious and funerary sites
  • Hillforts and earlier monuments
  • Other categories and uncertain sites
  • Rivers and watery contexts
  • Archaeological contexts in which hoards are found
  • Discussion
  • Chapter 6. Coin hoards as archaeological assemblages: containers and associated artefacts
  • Introduction
  • Hoard containers
  • Multiple containers and deposits
  • Hoards with internal stratigraphy
  • Associated objects, including possible markers
  • Evidence for metalworking and counterfeiting
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7. Coin hoards: chronological syntheses
  • Hoarding in the late Iron Age
  • Hoarding in Roman Britain to AD 238
  • The radiate hoards of AD 238-296
  • Late Roman hoards AD 296-445
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Debating the later third century: crisis or continuity?
  • Introduction
  • Establishing an intellectual context for the 'third-century crisis'
  • Historical context: the third century
  • Historical narratives and hoarding
  • Towns in the third century: archaeological evidence
  • Military archaeology in the third century
  • Roads and milestones
  • Rural lives
  • Other aspects of the economy
  • Votive deposition and religion
  • Material culture and identity
  • Summary: third-century Britain in archaeology and history
  • Explaining third-century hoards
  • Chapter 9. Hoards from Britain in context
  • Introduction
  • Factors governing the discovery and recording of hoards
  • Britain and the Roman world
  • Implications for research and practice
  • In conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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