Gold treasure from Dortmund
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The gold treasure from Dortmund is an important deposit from the early 5th century AD. It was discovered in Dortmund in 1907 during construction work in the Ritter brewery . The objects are located in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund . The find consists of 444 gold solidi , some of which were in a Roman clay pot, as well as 16 fragmented silver coins and three gold neck rings . The coins date from a minting period of 80 years, the oldest minting from the year 335 was for Constantine I , the youngest for the usurper Constantine III. who ruled from 407 to 411. According to this term post quem , the landfill cannot have been made before the year 407. The neck rings have a thickened middle part and a pear-shaped fastening loop. Comparable neck rings can be found in Horten on the Lower Rhine and in Westphalia (see, for example, the Velp treasure ).
literature
- Kurt Regling and the Dortmund City Art and Craft Museum: The Dortmund find of Roman gold coins . Ruhfus, Hagen 1908.
Web links
- Presentation on the homepage of the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund
- The find in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 12 ″ E