Record ID: KENT-0C2900
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly worn and fragmentary later early-medieval cut quarter penny (Farthing), uncertain ruler but likely dating from the reign of Cnut starting c.1016 to the end of the reign of Edward the Confessor (c. 1066). Possibly Cnut (r.1016-1035) pointed helmet type North 787 or 789 (c.1024-1030). Coin probably minted at Canterbury. If type is the aforementioned: Obverse: '[CNU]T:/[RE(C)X (AN)' Bust left wearing pointed helmet with sceptre (787) or without (789) bust to the flan. Reverse: '[_______CA]NT[(E/OR)]', voided short cross, limbs united at base joined by two circles; in centre a pe…
Created on: Friday 15th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-FCACC9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cut silver coin, probably a Jewel Cross type of Harold I, c.1035-1040 AD. As North, 1980: no. 802. The coin has been cut so that only one quarter now survives.
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavenham', grid reference and parish protected.