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English: TicKHILL I, SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Maisie Grover<a href="#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> & Richard Abdy

9 denarii and 4 sestertii BM ref.: 2012 T896a & 2015 T201b(add);

& copper alloy brooch fragment to c. AD 197 PAS ref: SWYOR-74BE41 & SWYOR-6F5A37

Circumstances of Discovery

Original find = 2012 T896 (part); case included Tickhill II, a Magnentian nummus hoard. Found by metal-detector on cultivated land between Sept & Oct 2012. Original find was one denarius of Commodus for Crispina, and one illegible sestertius of an Antonine empress (c. AD 138-182) and the brooch. Addenda of four coins (2015 T201) found 24^th February 2015, marked * after weight (a fifth coin handed in by mistake was actually a previous find in a different area: SWYOR-C9BFD5). Second addendum by same finder (Severus denarius - pushing the tpq later) in August 2015 (2015 T201a) and marked $ after weight; as well as third addenda of 1 x Trajan and 2 x Diva Faustina I were found in September 2015 and are marked # after weight (2015 T201b).

Description of Brooch by Philippa Walton

A fragment of a copper-alloy bow and fantail brooch dating to the mid first or second century AD. The fragment comprises the flat, triangular foot of the brooch, known as the 'fantail'. The upper surface of the foot is decorated with a rectangular recess, in which there are three lozengiform cells picked out in reserve metal, flanked by eight triangular cells. The lozengiform cells are filled with degraded enamel in a pale colour, whereas the triangular cells are filled with degraded ?red enamel. Where the foot would have originally met the bow, there are four horizontal ribs. The break is worn suggesting that it occurred in antiquity. The catchplate is triangular in shape and extends to the full length of the foot.

This brooch is of a very uniform type that has in the past been termed the 'Celtic fan-tailed brooch'. However, the shape of the head and the enamelled cells on the bow, have led to its attribution as a derivative of the Trumpet and Headstud series of brooches (see Bayley and Butcher, 2004: pp. 168). Bayley and Butcher suggest that the uniformity amongst this type may be the result of production by a single workshop (Bayley and Butcher, 2004: 168-169), whilst parallels to the current example are noted in Hattatt (1989: nos. 86, 449) and on the PAS database (cf. SF-B94EE4). PAS data has illustrated that the distribution of Bow and Fantail brooches is focused on eastern Britain, with a particular concentration in Lincolnshire. Wt = 3.51g; length = 25mm; max width = 16mm.

Disposition

Returned to finder. Digital image of the left-facing bust Hadrian (# 5) on file at BM.

Summary

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Domitian (AD 81 - 96)	1
Trajan (AD 98-117)	1 + 2 sest
Hadrian (AD 117-38)	4 + 1 sest
Pius for Diva Faustina I (AD 141-61)	2
Commodus (AD 180-92) for Crispina	1
Uncertain Antonine Empress	1 (sest.)
Septimius Severus (Wars of the Succession, AD 193-7)	1
Total	14

CATALOGUE

Denarii (6)

DOMITIAN (1)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII.1	Qty	Wt
	IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VII	IMP XIIII COS XIIII CENS P P P (Minerva advancing r. with spear and shield)	A1*	115	572	1	2.70 *

TRAJAN (1)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	[IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M T]R P	COS V P P [S P Q R OPTIM]O PRINC (Victory stg l., holding wreath and palm)	A3*	328	128	1	2.36#

HADRIAN (4)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG	P M TR P COS III (Minerva, helmeted, adv. r. brandishing javelin and holding spear)	C1*	121	69 var<a href="#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a>	1	3.03*
	IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG	P M TR P COS III (Fortuna leaning on column, holding rudder and cornucopiae)	A1*	170	86	1	2.71*
	HADRIANVS [AVGVSTVS]	CO[S III] (Abundantia seated left holding hook and cornucopia; to left modius; in ex. globe)	A1*	390	171	1	2.26*
	HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP	FORTVNAE REDVCI (Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae)	A1*l	648	247	1	2.52*

REIGN OF ANTONINUS PIUS (2)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	DIVA FAVSTINA	AETER[NITAS] (Fortuna, stg l., holding globe and rudder)	E1*	361	348	1	2.70#
	DIVA FAVSTINA	AVG[VST]A (Juno, std r., shouldering transverse sceptre)	E1*	428	363	1	2.84#

REIGN OF COMMODUS (1)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	[CRISP]INA AVGVSTA	CO[NCORDI]A	E1*	36	278	1	2.66

REIGN OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (1)

Wars of the Succession<a href="#_ftn2" title="">^[2]</a> (1)

Eastern mint(s) (1)

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No.	Reverse	Reverse	Bust	RIC IV	BMC V	Qty	Wt
	[IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II]	INVICT[O IMP] (Trophy of arms)	A1*	Cf.389	Cf.365	1	2.11$

Sestertii (4)

TRAJAN (2)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P	SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI; S C (Spes adv. l.)	A3*	810	519	1	24.08†
	IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P	REX PARTHIS DATVS; S C in ex. (King of Parthia kneels before Emperor)	C2*	1046	667	1	22.96†

HADRIAN (1)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P	HILARITAS P R; S C in field; COS III in ex. (Hilaritas stg. l.)	A1*	1370	970b	1	21.36†

UNCERTAIN ANTONINE EMPRESS (1)

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No.	Obverse	Reverse	Bust	BMC	RICII	Qty	Wt
	illegible	illegible	Z	?	?	1	17.11*