Bishopwearmouth, coin hoard
Bishopwearmouth, coin hoard
HER Number
77
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth, coin hoard
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Coin Hoard
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Tudor 1485 to 1603
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1902, when some "ancient dwellings" at the south-east corner of the Bishopwearmouth rectory were demolished and the new fire station constructed, workmen found an oak box containing 300-400 silver coins, "chiefly groats, sixpences and shillings of the reigns of Mary, Elizabeth, James and Charles I". A skeleton of a man, thought to have been the owner of the coins, was found soon afterwards. The whereabouts of the coins is unknown.
Easting
439330
Northing
557080
Grid Reference
NZ439330557080
Sources
<< HER 77 >> W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 63