Skip to content Skip to navigation menu   Iron Age and Roman
Coins from Wales: a case study  Dr Peter Guest   The original
objectives of the project were as follows:    • to record the
distribution of ancient coins from Wales onto a database,
including:     • excavated site-finds     • coin hoards     •
casual finds (i.e. recovered by metal detector or field walking
and reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme)   • to
produce and publish a detailed corpus of all Iron Age and Roman
coins from Wales   • to stimulate the exploration of spatial and
chronological distributions of ancient coinage.   • to encourage
the investigation of coin supply and use in Wales during the
later Prehistoric and Roman periods.  The IARCW project was
funded by the University of Wales through the Board of Celtic
Studies. A successful application for a grant from the Board led
to the appointment at Cardiff University of a Research Assistant
(Nick Wells) for a period of one year (2003-04). The project's
RA designed a database t