From barbarism to civilisation? Rethinking the monetisation of Roman Britain (original) (raw)

Moorhead, T.S.N. & Walton, P. (2014) Coinage at the end of Roman Britain

Britain 410. The conference proceedings. Ed. F. Haarer et al., 2014

Coinage is probably the most tangible form of material culture dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries a.d. As a result, numismatic evidence, and particularly hoards data, has played a pivotal role in dating the 'end' of Roman Britain. This article summarises the numismatic evidence for the period and illustrates how both hoards and site finds can be used to explore the chronology and nature of coin use throughout the diocese of Britannia and its apparent collapse in the post-Roman period.

Walton, P. & Moorhead, T.S.N. (2015) Coinage and the economy

L. Revell & M. Millett (eds.) The Oxford Handbook to Roman Britain, 2015

This chapter attempts to convey some of the complexity surrounding the study of coinage and the economy in Roman Britain. Using the wealth of new data provided by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, it explores the potential role(s) of coinage in Romano-British society and re-evaluates current theories of monetization over the 400 hundred years of Roman rule. In doing so, it challenges the applicability of a prevailing ‘evolutionist’ model, which situates monetization as one aspect of a wider process of acculturation or Romanization and suggests new ways of interpreting numismatic data.

Walton, P. (in press) Where, when and what for? Coin use in the Romano-British countryside

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is one of the most significant recent innovations in British archaeology. Since 1997, it has created a database of more than 750,000 archaeological objects, which have been offered for recording by members of the public. This database (http://finds.org.uk/database) provides an invaluable resource for those studying the material culture of England and Wales from prehistory to the post medieval period and numerous research projects have been undertaken which integrate its material (cf. Worrell et al. 2010). Roman coins represent the largest single category of object recorded by the PAS, accounting for nearly a fifth of all finds on the database. 1 The size of this dataset and its broad geographical spread allow patterns of coin use to be studied, not only at the level of the individual site, but also on a regional and provincial scale. This paper provides a brief overview of these patterns and suggests how they can be used to explore the geography, chronology and function of coinage in the Romano-British countryside.

Coinage at the End of Roman Britain

Taken from F. Haarer, R. Collins, K. Fitzpatrick-Matthews, S. Moorhead, D. Petts & P. Walton (eds.), AD 410: The History and Archaeology of Late and Post-Roman Britain, this article provides an overview of the nature of Roman coinage in Britain in the decades before and after the collapse of the Diocese

Coin use in the Roman Republic

In: F. Haymann, W. Hollstein and M. Jehne (eds.), Neue Forschungen zur Münzprägung der Römischen Republik. Beiträge zum internationalen Kolloquium im Residenzschloss Dresden 19.-21. Juni 2014, Nomismata 8 (Bonn 2016) 347-372, 2016