Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10978 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman metal finds |
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Summary
Two Roman coins were found in a garden in the 1930s.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 113 806 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM18SW |
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| Parish: | ROYDON (NEAR DISS), SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1930s or before. Found in garden in Louie's Lane, Diss.
Billon-didrachm of Nero (Alexandrian mint) head left radiate.
Reverse: Head of Claudius radiate. THEOS..SEBA(STOS) AVR…GERM.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
Also a sestertius of ?Caligula or Claudius.
Re-identified as Trajan by [2] February 1985.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
The garden in question must have been one of the two or three included in the grid reference as these were the only gardens in the road before about 1960, although these houses are in Roydon parish they are usually referred to as Diss.
The Ordnance Survey card states that informant [3] in fact lived in Sunnyside (to southeast) not Louie's Lane.
In 1982 only two families with the same name still in Diss; neither is that referred to above; but informant [4] of the Diss Cycle Shop says that the resident in Sunnyside was probably not the same as that in Louie's Lane.
Mistake by Ordnance Survey.
E. Rose (NAU), 2 December 1982.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 18 SW 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 - Roman. Diss. |
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