Find Spot record MDO6065 - The Handley Hoard, Sixpenny Handley

A hoard of over six hundred Roman coins in a pot was found in 1877. The dates of the coins ranged from Mark Anthony to Septimius Severus, which suggests that the hoard was buried soon after AD 195. Four hundred and forty surviving coins are now in the Dorset County Museum.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 115 (Serial). SDO51.

'(v) The Handley Hoard. 440 Roman coins, the surviving part of a hoard of over 600 denarii found in 1877, at about nat. grid ref. ST(31)/992183, in an allotment garden by the turnpike road near Upwood Farm, Deanland, Handley, have been acquired by the Museum. The hoard, which ranges from Nero to Severus but includes some debased legionary denarii of Mark Antony, and was probably deposited soon after A.D. 194-5, is fully described by Miss Anne S. Robertson in Num. Chron., 6th ser., x (1950), pp. 311-5.'

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 69 (Monograph). SDO129.

'A Roman coin hoard of 693 denarii from Mark Anthony to Septimius Severus, buried soon after 195, was found in 1877 in a pot on Upward Farm, near Deanland (992183); 440 surviving coins are now in D.C.M. (Pitt-Rivers, Excavations III (1892), 279; Numismatic Chronicle, 6th Ser., X (1950), 311-15; Dorset Procs., 73 (1951), 115.)'

<2.1> Pitt-Rivers, A H L F, 1892, Excavations in Cranborne Chase Volume III Bokerley Dyke and Wansdyke, Dorset and Wilts 1888-91, 279 (Monograph). SDO16713.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209759 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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