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The British Numismatic Society

Saturday 15 July 2023

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 
   

Coin Hoards – Discovery and Interpretation 

 
     

For many centuries portable wealth in the form of coins was hidden and lost. Its rediscovery in later times has provided the raw data not only on coinage typology, chronology, production and circulation but also a source of information able to contribute to archaeological, historical and economic research.

At this all-day Conference, focused on the British Isles, leading figures working on coin hoards and related material will look at recent discoveries and what we can learn from them along with the latest thinking on how coinage came to be hoarded and then hidden. It will then consider the latest techniques being used to recover and interpret hoards and to make available hoard data for researchers and collectors. The Conference will be hybrid with the option of in person or on-line attendance.

 
     In the following program you may click on the links at the end of each paper title for a synopsis of the talk and speaker.  
   

THE MORNING

(Session Chair: Dr Elina Screen)

 
  10:30 

Dr. Elina Screen, President of the British Numismatic Society. Opening Comments         

 

 VIDEO

   

  10.40 – 12.20:  DISCOVERY  

 
  10:40 Anni Byard: Iron Age and early Roman coin hoards from North Wales and the Welsh Marches. (Details)
 

Video not released.
  11.10

Philip J. Wise. ‘1066 and All That': A hoard   of 11th century coins from Braintree, Essex. (Details)

 Video not released.
 

11.40

Dr Barrie Cook. 'Trauma and transformation: the context of the 2019 Hambleden hoard and other finds of c.1344-56(Details)

 

VIDEO
  12:10

Discoveries – Discussion.

 
  12:20

Lunch.

 

 
   

THE AFTERNOON

(Session Chair: Dr Martin Allen)

 

13.45-16.25:  INTERPRETATION

 
 

13:45

Philippa Pearce. Not Just Coins in a Pot – Interpreting hoards at the British Museum.(Details)

VIDEO Pt.1

VIDEO Pt. 2

 

14:30

Dr. Murray Andrews.Counting the pennies: statistical approaches to coin hoarding.(Details)

VIDEO
 

15:00 

Break. Refreshments available.

 
 

15:20 

Rob Page. MCHBI – an online tool to assist with the study of medieval coin hoards. (Details)

VIDEO
  15:50 Professor Chris HowgegoThe Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project. (Details)
VIDEO 
 

16:20

Interpretation – Discussion and questions facilitated from the podium (in room and on-line), led by Martin Allen.   

 
 

16:30

Discovery and Interpretation: Summary of key points. A panel discussion led by William MacKay.   

 
 

16.45

Closing Comments: Dr Elina Screen