Peter Guest

Vianova Archaeology & Heritage Services

How did the Roman Empire supply and maintain its frontier garrisons? What was the impact on populations and landscapes of conquered territories? The Feeding the Roman Army in Britain project will answer these questions by establishing how soldiers were provisioned and how frontiers operated as economic as well as militarised zones.

The Toolkit for Finds Reporting: Roman Coinage provides resources and guidance for the historic environment sector to ensure the standardised identification, recording and quantification of excavated Roman coin assemblages. The Toolkit is a web based resource, available at: https://www.archaeologists.net/roman-coinage-toolkit. It is the industry...

Three trenches were excavated in June and July 2022 to establish the extent and nature of the underlying archaeological remains at Hinton St Mary, and to begin to answer some of the questions regarding the context of the famous mosaic and the building complex to which it belonged. This archaeological excavation is part of a wider collaborative pro...

The militarised frontiers in Wales are unique in the Roman Empire. Unlike the well-known defensive linear boundaries such as Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall in northern Britain, or along the Rhine and Danube rivers connecting the North and Black Seas, the forts and fortresses in western Britain formed a dynamic, and relatively short-lived, off...

Discovered during archaeological investigations in the southern suburbs of Bristol, the Hengrove hoard is an unusual cache of coins from the mid-fourth century. It contains 309 bronze and silvered bronze small change denominations, most of which were produced in a short seven to ten year period after 348. These include a significant number of coins...

Lying at the heart of the city of Venta Silurum, the forum-basilica at Caerwent tells the public, municipal, story of the Civitas Silurum in south Wales. The re-excavation of this complex between 1987 and 1995 revealed a wealth of new information that has a great deal to tell us about the history of the city and the fortunes of its inhabitants. Con...

Report on the 93 excavated coins from the Romano-British farmstead at Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire. Includes stratigraphic discussion of coin loss as the settlement developed during the Roman period, and highlights the possible deliberate deposition of coins with legends and images associated with divinity, health and wellbeing in water-pits. Com...

Six trenches were excavated in August and September 2021 to evaluate the condition of the archaeological remains of the late Roman ‘villa’ at Hinton St Mary in Dorset. This was the first time since 1965 that invasive archaeological fieldwork had been undertaken at the site, when the famous mosaic was lifted and taken to the British Museum. Grey lit...

Eleven trenches were excavated in July 2019 within the ‘small town’ at Durobrivae (Water Newton), to evaluate the condition of the underlying archaeological remains and to provide information in advance of a possible larger-scale research project. This was the first time since the 1820s that archaeological fieldwork has been undertaken within the w...

Provisioning large concentrations of professional soldiers in Britain after the invasion in AD 43 was a major challenge for the Roman imperial administration. In a distant frontier province such as Britannia, it is generally believed that locally produced agricultural resources must have been vital in feeding and maintaining the occupying army, but...

The six seasons of Anglo-Bulgarian excavations at Dichin produced at least 406 coins classified as site-finds, as well as two hoards of 12 and 5 coins . This assemblage is from one of the most extensively investigated late antique sites on the lower Danube, and the Dichin coins are a new and important source of information for the supply and use of...

Although the deposition of caches of valuable objects was a longstanding practice in Britain, extending far back into prehistory, more hoards of gold and silver have been recovered from the end of the Roman period than any other in British archaeology. Some of these are among the most significant collections of precious metal objects from the entir...

This article reappraises the Walbottle (Throckley) hoard of late third-century Roman coins. The complicated biography of the hoard since its discovery in 1879 is described, followed by a summary of the re-identified coins and a discussion of the dating of the hoard. The results of a ground-breaking metallurgical study of a sample of the Walbottle c...

Catalogue, analysis and interpretation of almost 3,000 Roman coins from the late Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Elms Farm, Heybridge in Essex. The report was written closer to the end of the excavations in 1995 than its eventual publication, but despite the intervening years I hope the catalogue, analysis and interpretation will be usef...

Why have so many hoards of late Roman gold, silver and bronze objects been recovered from the British Isles, and what do these finds tell us about the ‘End’ of Roman Britain? This article explores these important questions and, reassessing the numismatic, archaeological and historical evidence, suggests that this highly unusual episode occurred in...

The excavations at Caerleon in the summer of 2011 were focused on the complex of monumental buildings outside the fortress of Isca. This impressive suburb extended over about 5 hectares, including some of the largest Roman buildings in Britain, and this report presents the results of the nine trenches opened across the full extent of the complex. T...

A discussion of the siliquae from the Traprain Law Treasure in light of the major concentrations of the these late Roman coins from southern Britain. Includes ideas on why silver coins were clipped, and the significance of similar finds in southern Scandinavia. In: F. Hunter and K. Painter (eds), 'Late Roman silver and the end of Empire: the Trapra...

This article presents the results of extensive magnetometer and resistivity surveys undertaken at Caerleon between 2006 and 2008. The western side of Isca remains largely free of modern buildings and, consequently, little archaeological work has been undertaken in this part of the fortress. Therefore, almost nothing was known about the layout of th...

This volume details of almost 17,000 Iron Age, Roman and early Medieval coins from 289 individual find spots in the county of Cornwall, including 52 hoards (1 Greek, 1 Iron Age, 46 Roman and 3 Anglo-Saxon) and 21 excavated assemblages. The gazetteers of coins from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly include descriptions of the circumstances of each fi...

Coins are an important category of archaeological artefact for our understanding of the conquest and garrisoning of Wales and the Marches by the Roman army; they are relatively common finds and their production can be identified usually to a narrow time-frame, often a matter of years. In the past historians and archaeologists tended to use the disc...

Over 52,000 Roman coins have been recorded and published from Wales. Using this comprehensive numismatic sample, this article investigates how coins of different metals and denominations were used and lost in western Britain during the later Iron Age and early Roman periods. The analysis of coins from hoards, excavated sites and single finds produc...

“When he [Attila] saw a painting of the Roman Emperors sitting upon golden thrones and Scythians lying dead before their feet, he sought a painter and ordered him to paint Attila upon a throne and the Roman Emperors heaving sacks upon their shoulders and pouring out gold before his feet.” This account of Attila’s reaction to seeing the decorative f...

The archaeological work undertaken on late Roman and early Byzantine sites in the Balkans has revolutionized our knowledge of this part of the world in late antiquity. How these sites are dated is obviously important as, without accurate and reliable dating, it is difficult to understand how they fit into the wider historical narrative. This paper...

IARCW is a research project whose purpose is the study of the supply, circulation and use of ancient coins within modern Wales. The intention is to better understand the production of coins and the impact of coinage on the diverse population of this part of western Britain from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. The book is a corpus of m...

In the spring of 2006 geophysical and topographic surveys were undertaken of Priory Field, in the south-western corner of the legionary fortress that lies below modern Caerleon.

Discovered in 1992, the Hoxne Treasure is perhaps the richest cache of gold and silver coins, jewellery and tableware from the entire Roman world. The core of this volume is the catalogue of the 15,000 late 4th- and early 5th-century gold and silver coins, together with an in-depth discussion of the production and supply of late Roman coinage. Hoxn...

I don't have a pdf, so the original Word doc will have to do.