Conference
Crisis or continuity?
Hoarding and
deposition in Iron
Age and Roman
Britain, and beyond
Friday 11 March & Saturday 12 March 2016
Wider perspectives on
hoarding and deposition
Chair: Colin Haselgrove,
University of Leicester
Friday 11 March 2016
10.00
Registration
Hoarding and deposition
in Roman Britain
Chair: Jeremy Taylor,
University of Leicester
10.20
Introduction
Roger Bland, University of
Leicester/British Museum
10.30
Navigating Aladdin’s Cave: an overview
of Iron Age and Roman coin hoards
found in Britain
Eleanor Ghey, British Museum
11.00
Silver plate and hoards of precious metal
in late Roman Britain
Richard Hobbs, British Museum
11.30
Tea and coffee
12.00
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are
great: hoarding and status at rural sites in
the Romano-British countryside
Tom Brindle, University of Reading
12.30
What lies beneath? Exploring the
deposition of Roman coins and objects
in the River Tees at Piercebridge
Philippa Walton, University of Oxford
13.00
Lunch break
14.30
‘Ritual’ deposition in the Neolithic, Bronze
Age and Iron Age: a critical (pre)history
Duncan Garrow (University of Reading)
15.00
Metallic traces and persistent places:
landscape, materiality, context, and
Iron Age and Romano-British metalwork
and coin hoards
Adrian Chadwick and Rachel Wilkinson,
University of Leicester
15.30
Tea and coffee
16.00
Gold, Germanic foederati and the end of
imperial power in the Late Roman North
Nico Roymans, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
16.30
Single finds, cumulative finds, or hoards?
Problems in the interpretation of coin
finds from detector investigations of a
central place
Helle Horsnæs,
National Museum of Denmark
17.00
Discussion (until 17.30)
18.30
Public lecture (separate booking)
Treasure island: discovering the world's
largest hoard of Celtic coins
Philip de Jersey, University of Oxford
Saturday 12 March 2016
10.00
10.30
Britain and the continent in the third
century: patterns of hoarding and
patterns of analysis
Simon Esmonde Cleary,
University of Birmingham
13.00
Lunch break
Registration
The third century AD – part 1
Chair: David Mattingly,
University of Leicester
10.20
12.30
Introduction
Roger Bland, University of
Leicester/British Museum
Third-century archaeology in Britain
as a context for interpreting coin hoards:
perspectives on coin hoards for
interpreting the third century
Adam Rogers, University of Leicester
11.00
Somewhere in time:
chronological patterning in the
Romano-British countryside
Alex Smith, University of Reading
11.30
Tea and coffee
12.00
Carausius, Allectus and the
British Empire
Sam Moorhead, British Museum
Please note: programme subject to change.
The third century AD – part 2
Chair: Sam Moorhead, British Museum
14.30
Absence of evidence or
evidence of absence?
Fleur Kemmers, University of Frankfurt
15.00
Hoarding patterns and monetary change
Kevin Butcher, University of Warwick
15.30
‘Casey's Cadillac’: a continental view of
hoarding in the late third century AD
David Wigg-Wolf,
German Archaeological Institute
16.00
Discussion and summing up
(until 16.30)
Led by Roger Bland