Frome Hoard

The Frome Hoard ( Hoard ) consisting of about 52,500 Roman coins of the 3rd and 4th century AD and was completed in 2010 in a field near the town of Frome in Bath and North East Somerset, England, by D. Crisp with a metal detector made ​​. Its value is estimated at £ 320,250. The coins were in a filled to the brim pot. The Fund is one of the largest ever made ​​in the UK. In 1867 already 111 and dispersed immediately prior to the Fund 62 coins were found on the field. The recovery by the summoned archaeologists took three days.

About 760 of the coins to the anti-emperor Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius include († 293 ), a former commander of the Roman army, against Emperor Maximian and Diocletian, largely got its seven -year reign over England and parts of northern Gaul into oblivion, he murdered by his finance minister been. For the entire treasure include silver and bronze coins of 21 emperors and three emperors wives. The 67 different coins from the years 253-305 AD, so that the treasure was deposited in the 4th century. The hoard probably represents a communal votive offering to the gods.

The discovery of the Roman coins follows the same year as the discovery of a treasure of Anglo-Saxon coins in central England. This so-called Staffordshire Hoard contains more than 1,500 objects, mostly made ​​of gold.