• 

  Image not taken

Record ID: IARCH-3AA3FC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 247 no. 1018: ""About the Year 1764 in clearing away an Heap of Rubbish, a Countryman discovered near Barcroft in the Township of Cliviger, and about half a Mile from Mereclough, where the fine Collection of Consular Medals was turned up [no. 109], a Glass Vessel full of the small Brass of Constantine the Great and Licinius." -T.D. Whitaker, in Ralph Thoresby, Museum Thoresbyanum (= pt.2 of Ducatus Leodiensis), 2 ed. (1816), 1 n. -W. T. Watkin, Roman Lancashire (1883), 232, following a Ms. account in the Manchester Courier, 18 Aug. 1876, described this find as fol…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliviger (Dyer Wood)', grid reference and parish protected.