Tag: Coins and hoards

• Lost money: Roman coins found in England, reign by reign

  

  275,206 Roman coins recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, mapped district by district and reign by reign. The coin curve is the classic one. The map of it is a step, not a slope.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, archaeology, Britain, Coins and hoards, England, industry, Metal detecting, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Roman, Romans

• Minted: were England’s mint towns still the big towns?

  

  Around the year 1000, every English penny named the town that struck it. I followed the 68 mint towns of Æthelred II forward to 1377, 1801 and 2021. 8 of the 10 biggest were still among England’s largest towns in 1377; Lydford, Cadbury and Torksey are villages now.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Anglo-Saxons, Census, cities, Coins and hoards, Domesday, Early medieval, England, industry, medieval, Norman Conquest, Persistence test, population, Towns and cities

• Silver and Names

  

  The Vikings left two traces in Britain: buried silver and place names ending in -by, -thorpe and -thwaite. I put every listed Viking hoard on the map of Norse names. Mostly they agree, but Lincolnshire, with 294 Norse names, has no listed hoard at all.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Coins and hoards, Early medieval, England, medieval, Northern England, Ordnance Survey, place names, Vikings and Norse