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Record ID: IARCH-51204D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 67-68 no. 323: ""At South Shields was found a few weeks ago, near the site of the Roman station, a small hoard of Roman coins consisting of ten aurei, and from 130 to 140 denarii. The latter were agglutinated by the oxide of copper from one or two copper coins which were discovered with the mass. Mr. Robert Blair who has become possessed of four of the aurei and about seventy-five of the denarii, informs us that the earliest he has seen is an aureus of Nero, and the latest a denarius of Commodus. An aureus of Claudius 'restored' by Trajan is amongst them." -R. Blai…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-D04CA8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 358 no. 1471: "A solidus of Magnus Maximus (RIC 2(B)), found at South Shields in building work has been regarded as a hoard, although a single find. -P.J. Casey, in CH III (1977), 68, no. 214 Cp. SCMB, 1976, 318, 476 R.J. Brickstock, in BAR 176 (1987), 392, no. 94, has included this solidus of Maximus in his gazetteer of late Roman bronze hoards. In South Shields Roman Fort Museum. Said to have been found with Victorian and Indian coins."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-96D9F2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 263 no. 1103: ""The unprecedented proportion of coins of the period 317 to 330 is indicative of an early Constantinian hoard. This conclusion is reinforced by an examination of the coins of this period in the Fort Museum collection where most of the coins exhibit similar characteristics, being in virtually unworn condition and displaying a uniform patina." P.J. Casey assigned the following 59 small folles to this hoard: Folles Constantine I, Aug. 22 Crispus 20 Constantine II, Caes. 13 Constantius II, Caes. 3 Fausta 1 59 (1 of AD 329) (1 of AD 327-8) P.J.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-9063D5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 324 no. 1342: ""A similar situation [to nos. 986, 1103] exists in the coinage of another period normally ill-represented by site finds. The incidence of coins of Magnentius, and his brother Decentius, as individual finds, is normally very small. The Roman Fort Museum Collection contains a number of Magnentian coins in uncirculated condition and of uniform patina. Further the published list contains unprecedently high proportions of Magnentian issues; manifestly a hoard exists which has become integrated into the general list." P.J. Casey assigned the following 19 A…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-5EE687
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 238 no. 986: "Among "coins discovered within and near the Roman camp [sic] at South Shields (1874-1884) which have passed through the hands of R. Blair", P.J. Casey has isolated and identified two probable hoards [nos. 1103, 1342], and this one possible hoard: "(c) It is considered that the thirteen [sic] western mint, early tetrarchic coins purchased by Clapham constitutes the whole, or part of a further hoard [see nos. 1103, 1342]." These were: AE Diocletian 4 Maximian 1 Maximinus Daza, Aug. 1 uncertain Tetrarchic 6 12 (1 of AD 305-7) P.J. Casey, in op.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-318759
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 247 no. 1017: ""He [i.e. Dr. Smart at Brigg] says that, when he was a boy about sixteen years old, as he and some more of his companions were playing and casting handfulls of sand one at another, some of them grasped three or four old coins amongst the sand, and looking further, they found a peckful hid in the sand hill. They were all Roman emperors, and as fresh as if they were new coins, being all of brass or mixt mettal, and about the bigness of half crowns. The town's name, where they were found, is Whitburn." -From the Diary of Abraham de la Pryme (1672-1704)…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-FFB75E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 127 no. 560: "During excavations at Arbeia, the Roman fort at South Shields, 13 antoniniani and 31 radiate copies, Gallienus to Tetrici. -P.J. Casey, in CH IV (1978), 39, no. 151"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Shields', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-3300B0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: BYZANTINE
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
An imitation of a tetarteron of Alexios I (1081-1118), post-reform (1092) of the mint of Constantinople. Reference for the real issue (and not this imitation) can be found in Dumbarton Oaks Coins vol 4, no 33. Julian Baker of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) indicated that it was a good imitation, though the style was not quite right, and the coin itself is too round and not irregular enough to be an official issue of the era. That said, it is probably contemporary as these have very little collector's value, unless made as a tourist trinket in more recent centuries.
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: NCL-AE9AE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Billon Tetradrachm of Diocletian (284-305) Mint of Alexandria, AD 285-6 Obverse: AKOVAΔIOKHTIANOCCEB; laureate bust r. Reverse: Eirene (Pax) standing left, holding olive-branch in r. hand and transverse sceptre in left. L - B (= date: 285/6) Reference: BMC Greek, Alexandria, p. 2493var Curtis The Tetradrachms of Roman Egypt p. 164, no. 1976 Milne, Catalogue of Alexandridan Coins, p. 114, no. 4774 The outer edge is unevenly worn. This object was found on the coast at South Shields in the 1890s, where Eastern coins are known from a hoard, possible shipwreck, and as individual finds.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2019
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Record ID: NCL-EA1680
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dating to 1578.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-E9E9A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dating to 1580.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NCL-A50302
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy hook fastener. There is a central circular plate with a triangular fastener extending at one end and the hook from the other. The central plate is decorated with a Tudor rose motif. The fastener is likely to be sixteenth century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-A477F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a leaf shaped copper alloy strapend with zoomorphic decoration on one face. The attachment end is complete and consists of a sheet of copper alloy which splits in two. The corners of the attachment end of the plate are rounded and there are two circular perforations, one in each corner. There is possible incised decoration at the attachment end of the plate. However, the strap end is very corroded making it impossible to discern with any certainty. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a zoomorphic design. However, again the piece is too corroded to pick out t…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2003
Last updated: Saturday 1st March 2014
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