Unique ID: IARCH-947E4D
Workflow status: Published
Preesall With Hackensall
Also known as: Hackensall Hall
Also known as: Knott End
Broad period: ROMAN
Last ruler: Tetricus II
Last Reece period: Period 13 Gallienus sole reign to Aurelian (260-275)
Date from: AD 272
Date to: AD 274
Terminal reason: Date of latest ruler/issuer
Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ROMAN | Valerian I | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 253 | AD 260 | 1 | |
ROMAN | Gallienus (joint or sole reign) | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 253 | AD 268 | 36 | |
ROMAN | Salonina (joint or sole reign) | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 253 | AD 268 | 2 | |
ROMAN | Valerian II | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 253 | AD 260 | 2 | |
ROMAN | Claudius II | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 268 | AD 270 | 2 | |
ROMAN | Postumus | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 260 | AD 269 | 1 | |
ROMAN | Marius | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 269 | AD 269 | 87 | |
ROMAN | Victorinus | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 269 | AD 271 | 25 | |
ROMAN | Tetricus I | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 271 | AD 274 | 116 | |
ROMAN | Tetricus II | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 272 | AD 274 | 46 | |
ROMAN | Gallienus (sole reign) | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 260 | AD 268 | 1 | |
ROMAN | Victorinus | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 269 | AD 271 | 1 | |
ROMAN | Tetricus I | Radiate (antoninianus) | - | AD 271 | AD 274 | 2 |
Coin data quality rating: Fair (Grade 2)
Robertson 2000, 144 no. 640:
""On 3 September 1926 a farm hand in the employ of Mr. H. Baines, of Hackensall Hall Farm, Knott End, Lancashire, was engaged in removing some sand from a pit when his spade struck a flat unwrought stone 7 in. square, which he threw on one side. He next drove his spade through a loosely compacted mass of coins round which there had been some dark-coloured material, fragments of which on examination appeared to be the remains of a leather pouch or wallet.
In all, allowing for a few which were removed and irrecoverable, the find consisted of about 325 coins, all AE.
The spot where the coins were turned up is close to the estuary of the river Wyre, opposite Fleetwood, some 165 yds. from the H.W. M.O.T. datum line, and 180 yds. from the north-west corner of Hackensall Hall (sheet 38 N.W. of the 6 in. O.S.)".
-F.H. Cheetham, in Ant. J., VII (1927), 325f., with list of 318 coins, all ant.
BM Notebook III, 17, from R.G. Collingwood, 7 Dec. 1926, had a list of 261 ant. from this hoard, with mints. The two lists are:
Ant.J. BM Notebook
Ant. Ant.
Rome Milan Siscia "Cologne" "Lyons" "Vienne"te Valerian I 1 1
Gallienus 36 23 5 2
Salonina 2 1
Valerian II 2 1
Postumus 2 1
Marius 1 1
Victorinus 87 25 43
Claudius II 25 16 5 2
Tetricus I 116 97
Tetricus II 46 38
318 41 11 4 1 26 178
(261)
17 coins in Dept. of Coins and Medals, BM (BM Register of Coin Accessions, March 1927)
Examined, 1948, 1978 (ASR)
44 coins in Lancaster City Museum; 46 in Harris Museum, Preston
Examined, 1948, 1978 (ASR)
Other coins said to have been in Liverpool Museums; Revoe Museum, Blackpool; St. Michael-on-Wyre Museum; and also in Blackburn, Fleetwood and Salford Museum; and with Preesall U.D.C.
Four ant. of Gallienus (sole reign), Victorinus, and Tetricus I (2), now in private possession, may have come from the Preesall U.D.C.
Cp. D.C.A. Shotter, in CH VII (1985), 185, no. 288, types"
Mints recorded for 261 coins in "BM Notebook III" (not seen) according to Robertson. The summary by emperors of 318 coins listed in the Antiquaries Journal is given here, with addenda from Shotter 1985, 185.
Some of the BM coins from this hoard appear to be copies.
Current location of find: Harris Museum, Preston (part); British Museum (part); Unknown (part)
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 3rd September 1926 - Friday 3rd September 1926
Legacy hoard number: 1167
SMR reference number: Pastscape 39399
Museum accession number: BM 1927,0308.1-
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.