Record Details

NHER Number:10892
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age coin (Bressingham, marginal)

Summary

An Iron Age coin, made of gold, found in 1872.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BRESSINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1872.
Coin.
91 to 6 grains, 94 grains, uninscribed gold.
Eastern counties type. Local divergence of style.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 SE 1 [2].
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Bressingham.
<S1>Article in Serial: Brooke, G. C. 1933. The Distribution of Gaulish and British Coins in Britain. Antiquity. Vol 7 No 27 pp 268-289. p 275; Map V.
<S2>Article in Serial: 1879. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee and the General Meetings. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VIII pp 326-341. p 327.
<S3>Publication: Evans, J.. 1890. Coins of the Ancient Britons. 2nd Edition. p 437; Pl 2.
<S4>Article in Serial: 1933. [unknown]. Numismatic Chronicle. Series 5, Vol XII, p 166.

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