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Record ID: IARCH-2808CB
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 303 no. 1259: ""The other day Mr. T. Nicholson, of Cranbourne-street, Preston, walked into the Harris Museum and handed the Curator and Art Director (Mr. Sydney H. Pavi[eg]re) eight Roman coins which, he said, he had bought from a boy. The boy had told him that they were found while an air raid shelter was being dug in a garden near the old railway-station at the foot of Fishergate-hill. The inscriptions, which are readable, denote that the coins are small Roman brass of Carausius (AD 287-293), Maximian (305-313) and Constans (330-350). Mr. Pavi[eg]re tells me tha…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston: Fishergate Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-82EBC9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 310 no. 1275: "Seventeen coins found in Frenchwood, c. 1975/6, now in Harris Museum, Preston, consisted of a group of 16 Constantinian coins, and a sest, of Hadrian, which must be an intrusion in the group: AE Maxentius 1 Constantine I 6 Constantine II, Caes. 2 Constantius II, Caes. 1 Constantinopolis 4 Constantius II, Aug. 2 16 (1 deified) (FEL TEMP REPARATIO, falling horseman, 1 b., overstruck?) Examined, 1978 (ASR) There were said to be 169 more coins, presumably also Constantinian AE"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3B46FF
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
IARCH record for a small Magnentian hoard of 16 nummi and a copper alloy bracelet. For full details and images see LANCUM-33EBC3. Unpublished catalogue by David Shotter and Stuart Noon.
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clifton', grid reference and parish protected.