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Record ID: IARCH-BF0460
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 29 no. 147: ""In August, 1856, a vase, containing a hundred denarii, was discovered at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', Lancaster. They were of the higher empire, the latest being of the time of Trajan." C. Hardwick, Hist. of Preston (1857), 49 "On August 15th, 1856, a workman engaged in cutting away the embankment at the bottom of Bridge Lane, at the foot of the 'Wery Wall', to make way for some new cottages then about being erected by Mr. Thomas Harrison, came upon a hoard of about 100 denarii, all of the time of the higher empire, which were quickly dispersed, but …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-49F564
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
13 denarii and 1 sestertius to Hadrian. TAR 1998-99, 285; NC 2001, 14.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lathom', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-84CC46
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 28-29 no. 146: ""Silver chain found, with two enamelled silver fibulae, originally connected by it, at Chorley, in Lancashire, together with a hoard of Roman coins. These fibulae, now in the British Museum, are of a type peculiar to Roman Britain, and represent there a purely Celtic tradition. The chain is very similar in fabric to the smaller of the two Irish specimens (see Arch. LV, 391) and there is every warrant for supposing that it was from the hand of the same British craftsman to whose skill the fibulae to which it is attached were also due. The date of the…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chorley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-59A125
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 25-26 no. 135: ""Towards the end of July, 1949, children playing by a stream on Ottershead Farm, near Ormskirk, discovered a small hoard of denarii in the bed of the stream. Mr. Iliffe, Director of Liverpool Museum, who examined the site thinks that the coins may have been washed out of a layer of water-worn stones some three feet below the modern level of the top of the bank. The coins, including most of the Hadrianic, are badly worn, suggesting that the hoard was not hidden till some time after the issue of the Hadrianic coins, though the wear may be in part due to…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-610EB2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 26 no. 135A: ""The hoard of 30 Roman silver denarii were found on 29 October 1989 at Waddow Hall, Waddington, and declared Treasure Trove at an Inquest held on 16 February 1990. The whole hoard has been acquired by the Lancashire Museums Service.- Nero 1 Galba 1 Vitellius 1 Vespasian 2 Titus 1 Domitian Caesar 1 Domitian 1 Nerva 2 Trajan 9 Hadrian 9 Sabina 2 Total 29 A.M. Burnett in CHRB IX (1992), 39f., types, mints, weights All the coins with the Lancashire Museums Service"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waddington', grid reference and parish protected.