HOARD
Unique ID: IARCH-1F8AA3
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status: Published 
Known as
Scarisbrick
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Coin chronology
Last ruler: Vespasian
Last Reece period: Period 4 Flavian (69-96)
Date from: AD 69
Date to: AD 79
Terminal reason: Incomplete information
Coin summary
Download as CSV| Period | Ruler | Denomination | Mint | From | To | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROMAN | Vespasian | Denarius (Empire) | - | - | - | 1 | |
| ROMAN | Uncertain - 1st/2nd Century AD | Denarius (Empire) | - | - | - | ||
| ROMAN | Uncertain - 1st/2nd Century AD | Sestertius, dupondius or as | - | - | - |
Coin data quality rating: Poor (Grade 1)
Description
Robertson 2000, 14 no. 68:
""Hugh Worthinghouse yur Tenant hath found a few days since in ye ground about his house, dyvers scores of most antient Roman pieces, many of them pure silver, others (supposed once to be gold) prove now but Brasse, these about half a crowne in weight, those but sixpence. The faces and inscriptions upon ye silver coyne are clearly apparent and very neatly cutt, the character is the same now used, or with little differrence [sic]. One of these beares ye face of Vespation, with his name and tytle (Caesar) stampt at large upon ye verge.
You have in others S P Q R in a wreath of laurel, ye Roman Egle displayed, ye Aulters and instruments of sacrifice, wth ye faces of sondry of ye first twelve Caesars, no lesse discirnable than ye stamps of our modern coyne.
"
Letter from Wm. Blundell, Esq., of Little Crosby to his cousin, Jas. Scarisbrick, dated 29 April 1655; quoted by Rev. T.E. Gibson, in Trans. Lancs. and Chesh. Hist. Soc., XXXI (1878-9), 52"
Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 1655 - Thursday 29th April 1655
Personal details
Other reference numbers
Legacy hoard number: 1176
SMR reference number: Pastscape 40457; Pastscape 887044
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lancashire (County)
District: West Lancashire (District)
To be known as: Scarisbrick
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Archaeological context
No archaeological context available.
References cited
- Robertson, A.S., 2000 An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards London: 14 no. 68
- Shotter, D., 1990 Roman Coins from North-West England (original edition) Lancaster: 162
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