Findspot record TR 35 NW 140 - Three Iron Age coins - 1st century BC
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 336 566 (point) FCE |
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Map sheet | TR35NW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | WORTH, DOVER, KENT |
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(TR337566) 3 IA coins were found at Worth by metal detection in the late 1980s. TWRA-TYMAR-IA-47-Dated to c 100-90 BC and of the Trinovantes. It is made of cast bronze potin and measures 16.25-16.75 mm across the diameter and weighs 3.215 gm. The obverse side shows a head of Apollo left and the reverse shows a bull charging right, exergual line below. The catalogue references are uncertain and it is a Trinovantian A type. The coin is rather pitted and corroded. TWRA-TYMAR-IA-48-Dated to c 100 BC and probaly of the Trinovantes. It is made of cast bronze potin and measures 17 mm across the diameter and weighs 3.78 gm. The obverse side shows a head of Apollo left and the reverse shows a bull charging right. It is heavily corroded. TWRA-TYMAR-IA-49-Dated to mid-late 1st century BC. It is made of AE and measures 10.25-12.5 mm across the diameter and weighs 1.155 gm. The obverse side shows a ?head right and the reverse shows a long-legged horse left, badly off-centre. The coin is very worn, but almost certainly of Gaulish origin. (1)
Historic England archive material: 913768 South of England Metal Detecting Records This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.Metal detecting records from 2 rally sites: 7th-8th September1991 - Ringwould, Kent; 11th-12th September 1993 - Great Mongeham, near Deal, Kent. Also one block of variously located finds in Kent. Iron Age, Roman and Medieval coins.Contents : 3 catalogues and 1 reportCondition : INTACT
<1> Kent Metal Detector Group Records (OS Card Reference). SKE45936.
<2> Ringwould, K, 1991, South of England Metal Detecting Records (Collection). SKE6551.
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