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Record ID: IARCH-56109F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 366-367 no. 1505: ""In 1934 twenty-one small brass Roman coins were brought into the Harris Museum, Preston, by a man who said that they had been found in a pit at Brindle, Lancashire, contained in a small pot which had later been broken. No further information has since been obtained about the circumstances of the discovery, or about the exact size of the hoard when first found. It is therefore quite uncertain whether the twenty-one coins now in the Preston Museum represent the whole hoard, or only part of it. That they do represent a hoard, however, seems certain …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brindle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B89F98
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 81 no. 382: ""In 1840, some brickmakers discovered about four hundred silver denarii between Rossall Point and Fenny. This treasure consisted of coins of Trajan, Hadrian, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Antoninus, Severus, Caracalla, Sabina, Faustina, etc., about forty of which are in the possession of the Rev. W. Thornber." (Footnote: "The remaining portion of these coins was purchased at the sale of the effects of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, bart., at Rossall Hall, by Mr. Alderman Brown, of Preston, of whose collection they at present form the chief feature.") -C. Hardw…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fleetwood', grid reference and parish protected.