Unique ID: IARCH-A3960A
Workflow status: Published
Gateshead
Broad period: ROMAN
Last ruler: Hadrian
Last Reece period: Period 6 Hadrianic (117-138)
Date from: AD 117
Date to: AD 138
Terminal reason: Incomplete information
Coin data quality rating: Poor (Grade 1)
Robertson 2000, 32 no. 164:
""Great number of Roman coins enclosed in an urn
many of the coins having got into the hands of the workmen could not be recoverd, yet several of them, in good preservation, of the Emperor Hadrian, were in the possession of the late D. Stephenson, Esq., architect."
J. Sykes, Local Records (1833), I, 354; J.H. Corbitt, in AA (4), XXXVIII (1960), 120
The date of discovery was Feb. 1790.
M.A. Richardson, The Borderer's (or Local Historian's) Table Book (1864), ii, 332; E. Birley, Research on Hadrian's Wall (1961), 162
Including Hadrian"
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1790 - Friday 31st December 1790
Legacy hoard number: 2162
SMR reference number: Pastscape 24951
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No archaeological context available.