Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon PeriodsJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon Periods
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Great Britain -- Antiquities; Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain; Mounds -- Great Britain
The COINS found along with Romano-British interments are, of course,
of various emperors and of various periods. They are only occasionally
found, and, when discovered, cannot, it must be remembered, be
taken as any criterion as to date of deposit, or, indeed, cannot be
considered alone as evidence of the barrow or interment belonging to
the Romano-British period. The Romans seem to have sowed their coins
broadcast over the whole length and breadth of the land, to have
thrown them about as they would useless chaff, to have buried them in
urns in every conceivable place, and to have deposited them, either
singly or otherwise, in the barrows of their predecessors. It is
unnecessary to speak, then, of the varieties of coins which are from
time to time turned up by the antiquary in his researches into the
early grave-mounds. They form but a thousandth part of the coins which
are found away from interments.
It may, however, be well, as showing the relative proportions of
the coins of different emperors found in this country, to give the
following analysis, by Mr. Roach Smith, of more than eleven hundred
coins picked up at different times in one locality--Richborough in Kent.
Augustus 7
Agrippa 1
Tiberius 2
Antonia, wife of Drusus, sen. 1
Caligula 2
Claudius 15
Nero 11
Vespasian 13
Titus 1
Domitian 10
Nerva 1
Trajan 7
Hadrian 5
Sabina 5
Ællius Cæsar 1
Antoninus Pius 5
Faustina 3
Marc Aurelius 4
Faustina 5
Lucius Verus 2
Lucilla 1
Commodus 2
Severus 5
Julia Domna 3
Caracalla 3
Julia Maesa 1
Severus Alexander 7
Gordianus 6
Philippus 4
Valerianus 3
Valerianus, junior 1
Galliense 19
Salonina 4
Postumus 10
Victorinus 14
Marius 1
Tetricus 13
Claudius Gothicus 15
Luntillus 2
Aurelianus 4
Tacitus 5
Florianus 1
Probus 7
Garinus 1
Numerainus 2
Diocletianus 8
Maximianus 16
Caräusius 94
Allectus 45
Constantius 4
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