The Cridling Stubbs hoard (also known as the Womersley Hoard or Womersley I)is a
Romano-British hoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...
of more than 3,300 coins in a large, ceramic jar.
Discovery
Parts of the hoard was discovered by Mr W Frost, a farmworker at Lodge Farm,
Cridling Stubbs
Cridling Stubbs is a village and a civil parish in the Selby district, in the English county of North Yorkshire. It is near the town of Knottingley. Its population in 2011 was 152.
The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorksh ...
, on 8 October 1967. The site was subsequently excavated by RM Butler and
Jeffrey Radley of the
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England on 16 October 1967, where further discoveries of coins were made.
The jar was positioned upright in the ground and covered by part of a
grey ware jar and a stone.
The hoard did not count as treasure under the
Treasure Trove law at the time, so ownership returned to the landowner, who sold the container and 447 coins to
Leeds Museums & Galleries for £300.
The purchase was supported by a grant from the
Art Fund.
Contents
The hoard comprises a ceramic jar of a calcite-gritted fabric dating to the 4th-century AD and over 3,300 bronze coins.
The coins include denominations of Roman Emperors from
Tetricus I
Gaius Pius Esuvius Tetricus was the emperor of the Gallic Empire from 271 to 274 AD. He was originally the (governor) of Gallia Aquitania and became emperor after the murder of Emperor Victorinus in 271, with the support of Victorinus's mother, ...
to
Constantius II
Constantius II (Latin: ''Flavius Julius Constantius''; grc-gre, Κωνστάντιος; 7 August 317 – 3 November 361) was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic ...
. Fourteen of the coins were minted before AD 324, with the earliest dating to AD 270–275.
the majority of the coins were struck between AD 330 and 346.
Public display
The hoard was on display in
Leeds City Museum from February to July 2018.
Notes
:1. Cridling Stubbs is in the parish of Womersley and it is given this name in the report by Pirie.
Note that a second hoard of 4th-century coinage from this parish, found by metal detectorists in 2011, is named as Womersley II.
References
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1967 in England
1967 archaeological discoveries
Archaeological sites in North Yorkshire
Hoards from Roman Britain
Coin hoards