Record Details
| NHER Number: | 66558 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman coin hoard |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 2022 recovered two Roman silver coins likely to have been part of a small 3rd-century coin hoard discovered nearby during excavations in 1973 (see NHER 1007).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TM17NW |
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| Parish: | SCOLE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March-April 2022. Metal-detecting. [1].
2 Roman coins. These silver denarii are a probable addenda to the 'Scole Hoard' - a hoard of 4 coins found approximately 50m to the south-west of this location in 1973, during excavations that took place prior to the construction of these houses.
Information from PAS import.
See NHER 1007 for details of the 1973 excavations, which are fully published in monograph (S1).
A. Beckham (HES), 23 January 2022 and P. Watkins (HES), 18 November 2023.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Roman - 196 AD to 222 AD)
- HOARD (Roman - 196 AD to 222 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Rogerson, A. 1977. Excavations at Scole, 1973. Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 5 pp 97-224. |
Related records
| 1007 | Part of: Villa Faustini, Scole Iron Age, Roman and medieval settlement (Monument) |