Philippa Walton
British Museum & UCL
Tuesday 20 April 2010, Warburg Institute
Over the past ten years, more than 80,000 Roman coins have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database (PASD) as the result of metal detecting and other chance discoveries. Each record not only provides information on individual coins to uniform numismatic standards but also possesses locational information. As such the database represents an enormous digital resource with the potential to transform our knowledge of the province of Britannia and build upon existing applied numismatic research by scholars such as Richard Reece.
This paper will explore some of the ways in which this resource can be employed to survey key moments in the history and archaeology of Roman Britain at a national, regional and local level.
Philippa Walton is presently undertaking a PhD at University College, London, in collaboration with the AHRC and the British Museum.