Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4678 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age coins |
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Summary
A silver Iron Age coin inscribed ECEN was found. This was made by the local Iceni tribe. It may be the same object as a 'copper' Iron Age coin recorded in Little Cressingham. The exact location of these discoveries are unclear.
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Location
Full description
1. Silver coin of Iceni inscribed ECEN.
See (S1).
Exhibited Numismatic Society 23 May 1830.
2. British 'copper' coin (lost) perhaps same as silver Iceni coin claimed at NCM 1949.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 322. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Brooke, G. C. 1933. The Distribution of Gaulish and British Coins in Britain. Antiquity. Vol 7 No 27 pp 268-289. Map XII. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 89 NE 1; TL 89 NE 2. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Serial: 1847. Antiquaries' Journal. vol IV p.252. p 252. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Cressingham (Little Threxton). |
| <S1> | Publication: Evans, J. 1864. Coins of the Ancient Britons. p 382; Pl XV No 2. |
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