{"id":217,"date":"2025-01-28T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-05-28T06:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:15:23","slug":"misidentifying-a-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/2025\/01\/28\/misidentifying-a-container\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunmanby Hoard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2008, a metal-detectorist discovered the Hunmanby hoard <\/span>in North Yorkshire. The hoard <\/span>consists of <\/span>76<\/span> <\/span>siliqua<\/span>e <\/span><\/span><\/em>and <\/span>10<\/span> bronze coins known as <\/span><\/span>nummi<\/span><\/span><\/em>. <\/em>\u00a0A<\/span> small pottery fragment was also found along with the coins, and it was assumed that the fragment was <\/span>probably <\/span>from<\/span> the<\/span> container.<\/span> The hoard was acquired by the Treasure House Museum<\/a> in Beverley and the team visited the museum in December to examine the find. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The team examining the finds (Photo: \u00a9 James Gerrard).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of the coins date to the period 355-402 CE, though two of the ten nummi<\/em> were issued at the beginning of the fourth century (306-337 CE). It is not uncommon for earlier coins to be found in the latest hoards and we <\/span><\/span>have a number of similar examples in our dataset.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, c<\/span>lose inspection of the<\/span> pottery<\/span> fragment revealed that the sherd <\/span>could not have <\/span>b<\/span>een part of the hoard container<\/span>. Instead, the sherd is <\/span>from a kitchen vessel known as a mortarium<\/span>, <\/span>a <\/span>shallow <\/span>bowl that was used to <\/span>grinding or mixing foodstuffs<\/span>. The interior surface of <\/span>these vessels <\/span>are<\/span> embedded with stoney grit <\/span>to help gr<\/span>i<\/span>nd items <\/span>and you can see this in the image of the washed sherd below<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sherd fragment associated with the Hunmanby hoard (Photo: \u00a9 University of Kent\/Lloyd Bosworth)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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