NHER 6064 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age coins

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Summary

Two Iron Age coins, made of copper alloy.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish BRETTENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Two Iron Age coins.

Copper coin of Cunobelin, see (S1).
Uninscribed copper alloy 'where I believe other British coins have also been discovered'.
33 1/2 grains, type G.12.
?Called Icenian.
Obverse; convex CVNO in front of beardless laureate head to right derived Augustus. Abraded circle surrounds whole.
Reverse; concave, Bull butting to left, behind 3 pellets, CVN in exergue-whole with a beaded circle.
See (S2), (S3) and (S4).

Probably coin of the Aubiani, see (S6).
Obverse; 2 boars wheel in centre.
Reverse; Horse to right.

R. R. Clarke (NCM)

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Brettenham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 SW 6 [2]; TL 98 SW 7 [2].
  • <S1> Publication: Evans, J.. 1890. Coins of the Ancient Britons. 2nd Edition. p 571; Pl xxvii No 10.
  • <S2> Publication: Evans, J. 1864. Coins of the Ancient Britons. pp 120-121.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Brooke, G. C. 1933. The Distribution of Gaulish and British Coins in Britain. Antiquity. Vol 7 No 27 pp 268-289. p 285; Map XI.
  • <S4> Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. and Moore, I. E. 1937. The Roman Villages at Brettenham and Needham and the Contemporary Road System. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVI Pt II pp 123-163. p 144.
  • <S5> Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 103.
  • <S6> Publication: de la Tour. Atlas de la Monnaic Gaul. No.8514.
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Jul 12 2016 9:09AM

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