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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 NW 32
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Iron Age coins, Preston Hall, Aylesford

Summary

A number of silver Iron Age coins were found at Preston Hall when the foundations of the present Hall were being dug in 1852. Their present location is unknown.

Grid Reference:TQ 7275 5806
Map Sheet:TQ75NW
Parish:AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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[Centred at TQ 72755806] A "number of British silver coins" were "found in digging for the foundations of the new mansion of Preston Hall", c. two years ago [?1852]. (1) The present location of these coins has not been discovered. (2) TQ 726580. Listed by D.F. Allen under 'Inadequately recorded coins' but one coin only is mentioned. Present whereabouts not known. (3)


<1> Wanderings of an Antiquary 1854 175 (Wright) (OS Card Reference). SKE51269.

<2> F1 ASP 20.05.59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42197.

<3> Problems of the IA in Southern Britain 284 (ed. S Frere) (OS Card Reference). SKE48685.

<4> F2 AC 14.04.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43058.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 32 - May, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3894.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 32 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3895.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Wanderings of an Antiquary 1854 175 (Wright).
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 20.05.59.
<3>OS Card Reference: Problems of the IA in Southern Britain 284 (ed. S Frere).
<4>OS Card Reference: F2 AC 14.04.64.
<5>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 32 - May, 1959. [Mapped feature: #19877 Find, ]
<6>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 32 - April, 1964.