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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 20 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Iron Age coin, found in Hoo St. Werburgh |
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Summary
An Iron Age coin of common type was reportedly found in a plantation at Hoo St. Werburgh in the late 19th century. The coin was last seen in Rochester Museum but its present whereabouts are now uncertain.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 78 71 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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A "Common British type" coin found by a lad in a plantation at Hoo St. Werburgh is in Rochester Museum. Listed by Allen among "inadequately recorded coins" (1-2). This coin could not be traced in Rochester Museum and no further information on it was obtained there (3). Additional references (4).
<1> London Univ Inst of Arch Occ Pap 11 "Origins of Coinage in Brit" 284 (DF Allen) (OS Card Reference). SKE46157.
<2> Arch Cant 27 1905 lxvii (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE34918.
<3> F1 FGA 12-NOV-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42915.
<4> Field report for monument TQ 77 SE 20 - November, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4271.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: London Univ Inst of Arch Occ Pap 11 "Origins of Coinage in Brit" 284 (DF Allen). |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 27 1905 lxvii (G Payne). [Mapped feature: #25859 find, ] |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 FGA 12-NOV-64. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 77 SE 20 - November, 1964. |
