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Record ID: IARCH-35668F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gateshead
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 21 no. 107A: "In a news report dated 1849, in the Department of Archaeology Library, Durham: "Several extensive parcels of coins have been sold to silversmiths in Newcastle at various periods. One towards the close of the last century consisting of "about as many as would fill half a mans hat all silver denarii..." It seems likely that the parcel of coins referred to here is part of the hoard from Gateshead, February, 1790 Including Domitian"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gateshead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A3960A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gateshead
Workflow stage: Published
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"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gateshead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-5AA8C3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gateshead
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 236 no. 973A: ""Mr Mc Kenna, a member of the staff of the Public Library and Museum, South Shields, informs me that in 1927 a friend showed him 10 radiate coins said to have been dug up near the Seven Sisters, Whickham. I have not been able to trace these coins.. K.A. Steer, The Archaeology of Roman Durham (1938), unpublished PhD Thesis, Durham. Undated. Late 3rd century"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whickham', grid reference and parish protected.