Gateshead, Roman coins
Gateshead, Roman coins
HER Number
271
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead, Roman coins
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Coin Hoard
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In February 1790 the workmen employed in clearing away the rubbish at the top of Church Street in Gateshead, found a hoard of Roman coins in a pot. The few that coulb be recovered from the workmen were of the Emperor Hadrian.
Easting
425000
Northing
563000
Grid Reference
NZ425000563000
Sources
<< HER 271 >> M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. II, p. 332
W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, Vol. I, p. 63
F.W.D. Manders, 1974, A History of Gateshead, p. 1; J.H. Corbitt, 1960, Coin Hoards of the Roman Period from Northern England, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXXVIII, p. 120
W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, Vol. I, p. 63
F.W.D. Manders, 1974, A History of Gateshead, p. 1; J.H. Corbitt, 1960, Coin Hoards of the Roman Period from Northern England, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXXVIII, p. 120