TY - GEN
T1 - A coin hoard with an animal-headed gold bracelet from the vicinity of Philippeville
AU - Roymans, N.G.A.M.
AU - Scheers, S.
N1 - Reprint published in 2025.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In December 2010 the second author received a message from Mr Jean Elsen, director of an auction house in Brussels, that he had acquired a Celtic gold hoard, which — apart from some 15 gold coins — also included a decorated gold bracelet. As in the case of the hoard from Fraire, 1 here too the context information was minimal and the finder remained anonymous to us. According to Mr Elsen the hoard was found in the vicinity of Philippeville (B), which is in the direct neighbourhood of Fraire and Thuin. 2 The finder, however, did not want to give information about the exact findspot. The finds were reportedly collected in two concentrations within a distance of only a few meters; the first one included the bracelet and six Nervian staters, the second one four Eburonean staters and five quarter staters (see below). The fact that all the finds were found at a very close distance from each other and that all coins belonged to the Fraire/Amby horizon (see below), makes it plausible that we are dealing with the remains of a single hoard, which was slightly scattered by later soil disturbances. This is not certain, however; we may be also dealing here with two separate hoards that had been deposited more or less at the same time.
AB - In December 2010 the second author received a message from Mr Jean Elsen, director of an auction house in Brussels, that he had acquired a Celtic gold hoard, which — apart from some 15 gold coins — also included a decorated gold bracelet. As in the case of the hoard from Fraire, 1 here too the context information was minimal and the finder remained anonymous to us. According to Mr Elsen the hoard was found in the vicinity of Philippeville (B), which is in the direct neighbourhood of Fraire and Thuin. 2 The finder, however, did not want to give information about the exact findspot. The finds were reportedly collected in two concentrations within a distance of only a few meters; the first one included the bracelet and six Nervian staters, the second one four Eburonean staters and five quarter staters (see below). The fact that all the finds were found at a very close distance from each other and that all coins belonged to the Fraire/Amby horizon (see below), makes it plausible that we are dealing with the remains of a single hoard, which was slightly scattered by later soil disturbances. This is not certain, however; we may be also dealing here with two separate hoards that had been deposited more or less at the same time.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Late-Iron-Age-Gold-Hoards-from-the-Low-Countries-and-the-Caesarian-Conquest-of-Northern-Gaul/Creemers-Roymans-Scheers/p/book/9781041182030
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9789089643490
SN - 9781041182030
T3 - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
SP - 109
EP - 115
BT - Late Iron Age gold hoards from the Low Countries and the Caesarian conquest of Northern Gaul
A2 - Roymans, N.
A2 - Creemers, G.
A2 - Scheers, S.
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -