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Beau Street Hoard
The Beau Street Hoard, found in Bath, Somerset, is the fifth-largest hoard ever found in Britain and the largest ever discovered in a British Roman town. It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 BC and 274 AD.〔 The hoard was found on Beau Street about from the town's Roman Baths, built when Bath was a Roman colony known as ''Aquae Sulis.''
==Discovery==
It was discovered in 2008 by archaeologists from Cotswold Archaeology on the site of what is to be a new pool for the Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/bath-coin-hoard.htm )〕 The Grade II listed building was constructed in the 1820s by John Pinch the elder as the Bath United Hospital and later became part of Bath Technical College. The site is approximately from the Roman Baths and site of the original Temple of Minerva. The site had been excavated by James Irvin in the 1860s when the building had been expanded for a hospital extension by the architectural firm of George Phillips Manners and John Elkington Gill. Irvin had discovered a roman bathing complex with a hypocaust floor, on the site, but it is not known whether this was a private villa or public facility.
The Beau Street Hoard is the largest hoard ever found in the UK by a professional archaeologist. The coins were found fused together into a large block.〔 It was secreted under the floor of a Roman building near the face of a masonry wall, within a small oval pit measuring about . The find's location makes it highly unusual, as hoards more typically come from rural locations.〔 It was thought initially that the hoard comprised up to 30,000 coins but the estimated number was subsequently reduced to around 17,400. The hoard appears to have been deposited towards the end of the 3rd century AD; coins spanning a period from 32 BC to 274 AD have been identified by British Museum conservators.〔
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