Newburn Road, silver coin

HER Number:
13541

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn Road, silver coin

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Monument

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

Lats/Lons:

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