Published April 24, 2025 | Version v4
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The Afterlife of Roman Roads in England: PAS medieval coins dataset and R code

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Helsinki

Description

R code and research dataset of medieval coins recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales (https://finds.org.uk/) used in the article: 

Oksanen, Eljas and Brookes, Stuart (2025). 'The afterlife of Roman roads in England: insights from the fifteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain', Journal of Archaeological Science.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106227

The coin finds data dump was obtained by the PAS website (https://finds.org.uk/) on 28.03.2025 under CC-BY licence and was filtered to contain only medieval coin findspots that have coordinate values. The R Code for analysis is included and was developed by Eljas Oksanen.

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Additional details

Funding

European Commission
DeepFIN - Assessing Archaeological Deep Time in Finland through Spatial Exploration 500 BCE - 1520 CE 896044
Research Council of Finland
Historical Travel and Communications in Finland, c. 1650-1917 (HISCOM) 354314

Dates

Collected
2025-02-28
PAS data dump download
Created
2025-03-09
R code finalized