Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22538 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Coin of Charles the Bald (Scole, poorly located) |
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Summary
In the winter of 1985 to 1986 a silver coin, identified as a denier of one of the Frankish Kings named Charles, probably Charles the Bald, minted between AD 843 to 877, was recovered by a metal detectorist.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Parish: | SCOLE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Winter 1985 to 1986. Metal detector find from Scole, possibly from site NHER 1008, but this is far from certain. [1]
Silver coin, identified by Marian Archibald, British Museum (CM) from Moyes Hall drawing as a denier of one of the Frankish Kings Charles, probably Charles the Bald, AD 843 - 877.
See letter and drawing in file (S1).
A. Gregory (NAU), 27 April 1986.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
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