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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 SE 10
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Roman coins and objects

Summary

Roman coins and objects.

Grid Reference:TQ 8608 7165
Map Sheet:TQ87SE
Parish:UPCHURCH, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SITE? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • AMULET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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Discoveries from the marshes on Burntwick Island range from the pre- Roman period to about the end of the C2. Six Roman coins (see authority 2) have been found unstratified. Surg Comdr P.H.K. Gray has found c1951 an amulet here, a leaden dome 1.25 inches in diameter and 0.35 inches high: on the domed reverse are three incised semi-circular figures filled with lines and on the slightly countersunk obverse a cross, or Chi, flanked by A and what appears to be Omega. See F/55/5/7. (1) I have found the following Roman coins on the surface of Burntwick Island: Domitian, sestertius. Faustina I, sestertius. Faustina II, uncertain sestertius, uncertain As. Lucius Verus, sestertius. Marcus Aurelius, sestertius. Philip II, sestertius. (2) These coins were found in 1950-52, in the mud of the foreshore in the area centred TQ 8608 7165. No structures were seen but briquetage had been noted previously in the same general area. There is nothing visible there now. The coins remain in Gray's possession (3). Additional reference (4,5). For site in context with others in inter-tidal zone, see (6) and a photograph of some of the objects found on the site (7). Historic Englan Archive material: AO55/F5/7 INSCRIBED LEADEN DOME POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH BAPTISMAL WATER TANK.LETTERS 'CHI' 'A' AND OMEGA (SUPPOSED) JRS/44 (1954)


<1> JRS 44 1954 (R-B in 1954) 106-7 illus (OS Card Reference). SKE45095.

<2> Num Chron 6th Series 15 1955 234 (P H K Gray) (OS Card Reference). SKE47729.

<3> Sgn Cdr P H Ker Gray 'Frankfield' Farnham Lane Haslemere Surrey (OS Card Reference). SKE49447.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 10 - November, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4657.

<6> Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, 1994, Inter-tidal archaeology in Kent, p22-3 (Unpublished document). SWX9353.

<7> INSCRIBED LEADEN DOME POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH BAPTISMAL WATER TANK.LETTERS 'CHI' 'A' AND OMEGA (SUPP (Photograph). SKE184.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: JRS 44 1954 (R-B in 1954) 106-7 illus.
<2>OS Card Reference: Num Chron 6th Series 15 1955 234 (P H K Gray).
<3>OS Card Reference: Sgn Cdr P H Ker Gray 'Frankfield' Farnham Lane Haslemere Surrey.
<5>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 10 - November, 1964.
<6>Unpublished document: Department of Archaeology, University of Reading. 1994. Inter-tidal archaeology in Kent. p22-3.
<7>XYPhotograph: INSCRIBED LEADEN DOME POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH BAPTISMAL WATER TANK.LETTERS 'CHI' 'A' AND OMEGA (SUPP. AO55/F5/7. Black and White. Negative. [Mapped feature: #31900 finds, ]