HOARD

Robertson 2000, 247 no. 1018:

""About the Year 1764 in clearing away an Heap of Rubbish, a Countryman discovered near Barcroft in the Township of Cliviger, and about half a Mile from Mereclough, where the fine Collection of Consular Medals was turned up [no. 109], a Glass Vessel full of the small Brass of Constantine the Great and Licinius."
-T.D. Whitaker, in Ralph Thoresby, Museum Thoresbyanum (= pt.2 of Ducatus Leodiensis), 2 ed. (1816), 1 n.
-W. T. Watkin, Roman Lancashire (1883), 232, following a Ms. account in the Manchester Courier, 18 Aug. 1876, described this find as follows:
"In June, 1761, a hoard of about 200 coins, chiefly of the time of Constantine the Great, and his sons, were found in a field called the 'Low House Wood', at the Dyer Wood, between Barcroft and Overtown, about two miles from Burnley, on the estate of Mr. Peter Ormerod, of Ormerod. This spot is close to the 'Long Causeway' and also to the site of the Mereclough discovery of 1695 [no. 109]. It is not said of what metal the coins were, but they appear to have been third brass. A description of only five has been preserved.":
The coins were all folles:
AE
Maximinus Daza 1
Constantine I, Aug. 3
Licinius I 1

5
The description of these coins shows that they were all folles.
The 2 of Maximinus Daza and Licinius I had rev. GENIO POP ROM, mint Trier. The 3 of Constantine I, Aug. had revs. MARTI CONSERVATORI, SOLI INVICTO COMITI, mint Trier, and S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, mint Ostia. All 5 coins were of c. AD 310-13."

Archaeological context

No archaeological context available.