The "Danebury Sun Snake" type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where significant quantities were recovered during Barry Cunliffe's excavations in the 1970s and 80s — one of the most systematically excavated Iron Age sites in Britain. The concentration of finds there suggests the hillfort functioned as a redistribution center or ritual deposit site rather than mere habitation, though the precise mechanism by which coinage moved through late Iron Age southern Britain remains contested.
ABC 593 belongs to the Atrebatic series preceding Commius, predating any named ruler coinage from the region by at least a generation.
The "Danebury Sun Snake" type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where significant quantities were recovered during Barry Cunliffe's excavations in the 1970s and 80s — one of the most systematically excavated Iron Age sites in Britain. The concentration of finds there suggests the hillfort functioned as a redistribution center or ritual deposit site rather than mere habitation, though the precise mechanism by which coinage moved through late Iron Age southern Britain remains contested.
ABC 593 belongs to the Atrebatic series preceding Commius, predating any named ruler coinage from the region by at least a generation.