[1][2] The coins were found buried in a brown pot in a plantation next to a public bridleway by Nic Davies only a month after he had started metal detecting as a hobby, and were his first find.

[1][3] Davies did not have permission from the landowner to metal detect on his land, not realising that it was a requirement, and when he located the hoard he dug up the pot himself, although he subsequently took it to show Peter Reavill, the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Liaison Officer for Herefordshire and Shropshire.

Davies later led Reavill and Shropshire County Council archaeologists to the find site, and a small excavation was carried out.

It is thought that it may be the remains of a cloth bag that closed with a nail, and put in with the coins as a votive offering.

[1] Reavill has speculated that as Britain produced food for export to other parts of the Roman Empire during reign of Constantine I, the coins may represent payment to a farmer or farming community for a harvest, and that the money may have been buried for safe-keeping, with money being withdrawn when needed.