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Monument details

Summary

Coins of Carausius and Licinius found 1836

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Roman - 200 AD to 300 AD)

Associated Finds

• COIN (Roman - 200 AD to 300 AD)

Full description

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Coins of Carausius and Licinius were found at Stowting in 1836 in a place called the "Pean". (1) [Centred TR 123 420] Pean Field. (2) Wrench (1) noted that "in 1836 some men who were digging for stones in a place called the Pean, supposed to have been the ancient market place, found coins of Carausius and Licinius" but didn't mention that the local name for the field around the motte and bailey (TR 14 SW 5) is known to the villagers as the Pean. No documentary evidence has been found to confirm this areas as the field named by Wrench as the Pean, but a search after ploughing in 1972 yielded several hundred worn sherds of Romano-British fine and coarse wares and a barbarous radiate of Tetricus in good condition. At the northern end of the field were fragments of tegulae and imbrices. It is conceivable that the men digging for stones in 1836 were in fact taking away material from the walls and foundations of an earlier building, the only natural stones in the area being small Tertiary pebbles. (Further Roman material has been found nearby - see TR 14 SW 6). (3)

<1> The Parish of Stowting 1845 6 (F Wrench) (OS Card Reference). SKE50465.

<2> F1 CFW 24-APR-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42743.

<3> Tithe Map Stowting 1837 (OS Card Reference). SKE50594.

<4> Arch Cant 87 1972 232-3 (J Bradshaw) (OS Card Reference). SKE35903.

<5> Field report for monument TR 14 SW 10 - April, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5452.

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