Roman coins and military dress accessories discovered during excavations at Crouched Friars in 1983/4 (ECC698). The coins from the site 'reflect in miniature the range that might be expected on any Roman site in the town'. There were five 1st century coins: two each of Vespasian and Domitian, and one of Nerva AD 96-98. The 2nd and early 3rd centuries were not represented. Two late 3rd century coins included a barbarous radiate, AD 270-290. The 4th century was represented by coins of Licinius II (AD 320-321) and two copies of Constantinian coins, Urbs Roma (AD 330-345) and the Fel Temp Reparatio reverse (AD 350-360). There was also a very corroded coin which could only be given a general date of 3rd to 4th century.
The military dress accessories included an antler buckle dated to the 1st century and a fragment of a copper-alloy girdle-plate tie-hook, from legionary laminated body armour, also of 1st century date.<1>