Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8217 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman coin from in front of the old hall |
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Summary
A Roman coin of Antonius Pius was found when trees were planted in the front of the old hall. This coin was struck after the emperor had died and depicts a four storey funerary pyre with the figure of the emperor in a four horse chariot on the top of it.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 395 261 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NE |
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| Parish: | INGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November 1908. Field directly in front of old Hall when tree planting.
Sestertius of Antoninus Pius.
Obverse: DIVUS ANTONINVS head.
Reverse: / CONSECRATIO - Pyre of four stories surmounted by figure of emperor in four horse chariot.
Struck posthumously in ?161 AD.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
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. TG 32 NE 4. |
| --- | 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. Ingham. |
| <S1> | Publication: Haverfield Library Mss Notes. |
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