On the 26th July 2010, the Scheme recorded the 400,000 record on the database; another Roman coins, this time a nummus of the House of Constantine. We had an internal challenge, with the Deputy Head down to buy the person who recorded this object, a bottle of sparkling wine. The landmark object is show below and was recorded by Tom Brindle, our acting FLO for Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
PAS record number: WMID-D6D183
Object type: Coin
Broadperiod: Roman
County of discovery: Shropshire
Stable url: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/400298
Several FLOs expressed dismay, that the object was a Roman coin and a metal detector find, I think they were hoping for a lithic or something else found by a fieldwalker for a change… However, coins and metal detectorists are the best represented on our database….
| Records | Finds recorded | Year of recording |
|---|---|---|
| 3476 | 4588 | 1998 |
| 6128 | 8201 | 1999 |
| 11323 | 18106 | 2000 |
| 11481 | 16368 | 2001 |
| 8164 | 11996 | 2002 |
| 14657 | 21684 | 2003 |
| 26383 | 39000 | 2004 |
| 33919 | 52202 | 2005 |
| 37502 | 58311 | 2006 |
| 49308 | 79052 | 2007 |
| 37455 | 56449 | 2008 |
| 39981 | 66481 | 2009 |
| 112893 | 190091 | 2010 |
You might wonder why these figures don’t always match the Annual Reports; well, the database is constantly being worked on, errors corrected, finds removed if duplicate records and so on. There’s some blips in the figures being recorded – 2002 for example being foot and mouth hit, in 2003 the Scheme went National and we phased in our new database and in March 2010 we imported 2 large datasets from IARCW and CCI (and you might have heard about 52,503 coins found in Somerset – only 1 record of those though – April). However the 2010 figures are encouraging when you look at the statistics for recording since we went live with our new database (shown below with a comparison to 2009, same period).
| Records | Objects | Month |
|---|---|---|
| 3638 | 4395 | 1 |
| 2694 | 5410 | 2 |
| 2842 | 3414 | 3 |
| 3191 | 6284 | 4 |
| 3768 | 5229 | 5 |
| 3307 | 4429 | 6 |
| 3152 | 3819 | 7 |
| Records | Objects | Month |
|---|---|---|
| 4290 | 12274 | 1 |
| 3509 | 5526 | 2 |
| 88596 | 90380 | 3 |
| 4191 | 57775 | 4 |
| 3957 | 5255 | 5 |
| 4490 | 14518 | 6 |
| 3860 | 4363 | 7 |