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The context of the Roman coin moulds from the archaeological site at Lyde Road. Only the eastern part of this extensively excavated site is shown on this figure and the main occupation area in the Iron Age and Roman period lay further to the west. Phase 3 relates to the third century A.D., Phase 2 to second century A.D. and Phase 1 to the early-middle Iron Age. The Iron Age and Roman settlement site at Lyde Road lay immediately to the west of this industrial area. (Redrawn from Clelland and Budd 2010, fig. 7, with permission.)
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This paper addresses the archaeological contexts of the clay moulds used to produce copies of Roman coins in third-century Britain. Previous research has focused primarily upon the technology and chronology of the use of moulds to produce coins with the discarded remains of the used moulds considered as ‘waste’ items from an industrial process. Thi...
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... other site where moulds were closely connected with kilns is the extensive Iron Age and Roman settlement at Lyde Road (FIG. 4) results relating to the moulds have been published in a detailed interim report. 42 The copying of coins, which presumably occurred during the late third or early fourth century (TABLE 1), was conducted on the east margin of this long-lived settlement in an area where there had been second-century industrial activity. The mould ...
