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Record ID: IARCH-9DCF9B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Sunderland
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 273 no. 1140: ""This hoard has only recently been reported to the writer by the Washington Antiquarian Society." The hoard was found in the latter part of 1939 by a labourer excavating an air raid shelter, and is reported to have been found in a small earthenware pot since lost. The number of coins I have before me is 59 and it is impossible to say whether there were others.. The coins themselves are all in very good state of preservation and will, I understand, eventually be displayed at Washington Old Hall." -J.H. Corbitt, in AA (4), XXXVIII (1960), 122f., types…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Washington', grid reference and parish protected.