September has already been a very busy month for the project team. We began the month by hosting our end-of-project workshop at the British Museum. The event brought together leading scholars from the UK and beyond to discuss and debate the key findings from our study of late Roman hoards.
Across the day, each member of the project team gave a short talk on their specific areas of research and offered new perspectives and approaches. We discussed the key results from our study of the artefacts and clipped coins from our hoards which revealed that many hoards were buried in the second half of the fifth century, far later than previously assumed. We also considered the social and economic value of these hoards, presented a summary of our work on the bronze coins, and provided new thoughts on hoard containers. It was a lively day full of engaging discussion and questions and we are very grateful to everyone who attended and contributed.
Shortly after the end-of-project workshop, a member of the project team travelled to Cambridge to present the results of the coin clipping study at the Royal Numismatic Society’s 2026 Symposium held at Cambridge. Our research aligned perfectly with the theme of this year’s symposium, Coinage in the Late Roman Empire and Early Medieval Europe: Continuity and Crisis. We’d like to thank the organisers for inviting us to speak and to the audience for their questions and feedback.
Looking ahead, we have many more activities scheduled for the rest of September. This includes our upcoming public outreach workshops at Salisbury Museum and Worthing Museum & Art Gallery. Spaces for these two workshops were filled very quickly and we are excited to continue sharing our research with members of the public. Finally, we are also counting down to the closing date of our short story competition, and we are looking forward to reading the submitted entries. For further information, please see our short story competition page.