The Four Treasures starts with a celebration and the promis of another great event and good news. Andrew soon feels a longing for more of a purpose and answers to long asked questions. He and his grandfather, Gildas embark upon a happy journey in their new ship which is magickal and steers itself. Once on the mainland, there are signs that all may not be well with the High-Priestess Morvida who having left on a mission to minister to the Brithons of Wessex, Dyfed and Gwent, has not been heard from in over a month. Andrew is led deeper into intrigue of battles and captives all orchestrated by a vengeful hand which seeks to draw him nearer, but to what end?

Discovered in 1992, the Hoxne Treasure is perhaps the richest cache of gold and silver coins, jewellery and tableware from the entire Roman world. The core of this volume is the catalogue of the 15,000 late 4th- and early 5th-century gold and silver coins, together with an in-depth discussion of the production and supply of late Roman coinage. Hoxne's silver coins are particularly interesting, and the book also contains ground-breaking discussions of the silver content of Roman currency as well as of the peculiarly British phenomena of coin clipping and copying. The value of the Hoxne Treasure in shedding light on an otherwise dark period of British history also calls for a broader, non-numismatic perspective, and the volume includes an important chapter dealing with the social significance of precious metals in the later Roman empire, particularly their role in the gift-exchange networks that defined and maintained late Roman imperial society.