The Blake Street hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard.
The hoard
Discovery and context
The hoard was discovered during excavation in 1975 by
Richard Hall at
Blake Street, York, in the ''
praetentura'' of the Roman legionary fortress of ''
Eboracum
Eboracum () was a castra, fort and later a coloniae, city in the Roman province of Roman Britain, Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the ...
''.
The hoard was located in the foundations of a building dating to the second-century AD.
33 of the coins are in the collection of the
Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy.
History
The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Soci ...
and two are in the
British Museum
The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...
.
Contents
The hoard contains 35 ''
denarii
The ''denarius'' (; : ''dēnāriī'', ) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the ''antoninianus''. It continued to be mi ...
'' from the Roman Republican and early-Imperial periods. The latest coin in the hoard is of the Emperor
Vespasian
Vespasian (; ; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The last emperor to reign in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for 27 years. His fiscal reforms and consolida ...
.
References
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1975 in England
1975 archaeological discoveries
Collection of the Yorkshire Museum
Hoards from Roman Britain
Coin hoards
Archaeological discoveries in the United Kingdom