Description

Summary: Potttery vessel in which the Stanchester hoard of Roman coins was found. The hoard was discovered in 2000 by a 14-year-old schoolboy from Marlborough. It was found close to the site of Stanchester Roman villa in the parish of Wilcot. The hoard comprises 1,196 gold, silver and copper-alloy coins, with a fragmentary copper-alloy finger ring, concealed in a dull grey-ware pot manufactured at the Alice Holt kiln factory near Farnham in Surrey. This pottery kiln provided much of the domestic pottery used in southern Britain in the latter years of the Roman period in Britain.