Beau Street, Bath Hoard

Verity Anthony is Visitor Experience and Collections Manager at Cornwall’s Regimental Museum. Prior to that she has worked in collections roles at the Museum of London and at The Roman Baths, where she played a major part in the Beau Street Hoard project.Richard Abdy has been curator of Roman coins at the British Museum for many years, with particular interest in the middle and later imperial periods of the Roman Empire. He is in the process of publishing RIC II.3 on the coinage of Hadrian and has had long experience of recording Roman coin hoards through work on Treasure cases in England.Stephen Clews is the Manager of the Roman Baths and Pump Room in Bath, where he has worked on the re-development and re-display of the site and its collections for more than thirty years. He also enjoys an occasional glass of spa water.

• Foreword and Acknowledgments ; Beau Street, Bath: Overview – Richard Abdy ; The Beau Street Hoard: A Summary Account of the Archaeological Context – Mark Corney ; The Composition of the Hoard – Benedict Sayers ; Laboratory Excavation and Conservation – Julia Tubman ; A Third Century Crisis? The Composition and Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage; Septimius Severus to Valerian and Gallienus – Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting ; Catalogue of the Bags – Benedict Sayers, with Richard Abdy, Verity Anthony, Eleanor Ghey and Rachel Wilkinson ; Bag 1 ; Bag 2 ; Bag 3 ; Bag 4 ; Bag 5 ; Bag 6 ; Bag 7 ; Bag 8 ; Loose Coins ; Plate Concordance ; Plates