NHER 7720 (Find Spot record) - Weston Longville Iron Age and Roman coin hoard
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG11NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WESTON LONGVILLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Full Description
March 1852. Found on edge of heathland while digging a ditch.
200 to 300 silver Icenian coins were found in an urn together with three Roman denarii of Antonia (legionary), Claudia and Cassia family(much worn). The hoard included equal proportions of inscribed and uninscribed coins and none of the Roman coins are later than 30 AD. The hoard was deposited in the first half of the 1st century AD.
See (S1) (S2) (S3) and list in secondary file for more information.
E. B. Green (NCM).
Pre-1971. Find.
Several pot boilers with dark organic matter were reported having been found on or near this site.
T. Clough (NCM).
Winter 1986 to 1987. Finds.
Twenty to thirty sherds Roman greyware and one Roman coin of Helena, PAX PVBLICA AD 337-40, were recovered over a relatively small area in the vicinity of the 1852 coin hoard.
A. Gregory (NAU), 16 February 1988.
August 1989. Metal detecting.
A survey was conducted of site and the area of an adjacent development, but no finds were recovered.
See additional detail in secondary file.
D. Gurney (NAU), 11 August 1989.
Associated Sources (17)
- --- SNF94458 Illustration: [Unknown]. 1953. Tracings of Iron Age coins figured in scrap book of Bryan Hall of Banningham.
- --- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Weston.
- --- SNF99172 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Weston Longville.
- --- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Weston Longville.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 11 NW 1 [3].
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF8214 Article in Serial: Smith, C.R.. 1853. [unknown]. Numismatic Chronicle. Vol XV, p 98.
- <S10> SNF4327 Article in Monograph: Allen, D.F.. 1961. The Origins of Coinage in Britain: A Reappraisal.. Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain. Frere, S.. pp 97-308. pp 263-267.
- <S2> SNF866 Article in Serial: 1854. An Account of the Icenic coins found at Weston in Norfolk. Vol 2, p 810.
- <S3> SNF6 Article in Serial: 1855. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VI pp 341-366. pp 357-359.
- <S4> SNF6370 Article in Serial: Hempnall, R.. 1859-1860. The East Anglian or Notes and queries on subjects connected with the counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk. The East Anglian. Vol I, p 89. p 36.
- <S5> SNF5949 Publication: Evans, J. 1864. Coins of the Ancient Britons. 361, 380-1, 383, 386-91, 392, 397-400.
- <S6> SNF5976 Publication: Evans, J.. 1890. Coins of the Ancient Britons. 2nd Edition. p 585.
- <S7> SNF69266 Serial: 1895. Archaeologia. Vol. 54. p 490.
- <S8> SNF2299 Article in Serial: 1958. British Numismatic Journal. British Numismatic Journal. Vol XXVIII, p 7.
- <S9> SNF1971 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (5)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN HOARD (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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Record last edited
Sep 21 2016 1:01PM