Jarrow, Roman coin

HER Number:
990

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Roman coin

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Currency

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C3

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1921 R. Worley, of Hexham, found a Roman coin "about 400 yards west of St. Paul's Church..., 'south of the ballast hill now used by the Shell Oil Tanker trains... did it come with the ballast or was there a Roman settlement nearby?'" The coin has been identified by Richard Brickstock from a rubbing as a denarius of Septimius Severus (A.D. 202-210). Mr. Worley reported the find in a letter to R.J. Cramp in 1980. A second coin, Constantinian, is reported to have been found near Jarrow Hall, but it is suggested that this may in fact be the same artifact.

Easting:
337

Northing:
652

Grid Reference:
NZ337652

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 990 >> Pers comm. P. Lowther 1986 - Historic Environment Record