Newburn Road, silver coin

HER Number

13541

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Newburn Road, silver coin

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Coin

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Found in the garden of No. 216 Newburn Road on 30 January 1964. A silver 4d piece. The obverse reads JACOBUS II DEI GRATIA with Laureate head looking left. The reverse reads MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX and has IIII crowned. A Scottish groat of James II.

Easting

415900

Northing

566600

Grid Reference

NZ415900566600

Sources

Ernest Sockett, 1968, A Walbottle Miscellany in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 3, Sept 1968, pp 9-11