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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 41 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Iron Age gold coin, found near Rainham, Gillingham |
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Summary
Iron Age gold coin found near Watling Street and dating to 'before the Christian era'. (Possibly a duplicate of TQ 76 NE 31?? - a gold stater of Eppillus found during excavation for a new railway between Chatham and Rainham in c.1859.)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 80 65 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NW |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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Payne notes "a gold coin struck before the Christian era, from the Watling Street, near Rainham." In the possession of Mr Walter Prentis of Cosenden, near Rainham. [Not mentioned by Evans, Allen ... etc" is it the same as TQ 76 NE 31?] (1) No further information. (2)
<1> Coll Cant 1893 86 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE39153.
<2> F1 CFW 10-DEC-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42512.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 86 NW 41 - December, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4583.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Coll Cant 1893 86 (G Payne). [Mapped feature: #30352 find, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 10-DEC-64. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 86 NW 41 - December, 1964. |
