Throckley, The Walbottle Hoard

HER Number:
1241

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, The Walbottle Hoard

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NW

Class:
Currency

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin Hoard

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C3

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The cache of over 5000 Roman coins, known as the Walbottle hoard, was found in 1879 during the construction of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company's filter beds (HER ref. 4236). It seems likely that the hoard may have been concealed in the Wall ditch near the site of Milecastle No. 11, at Throckley Bank Top. The coins were mostly of the decade AD 260-70. The hoard was dispersed in small lots by the finder, an Irish labourer, but subsequently some eight hundred or more were acquired by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle.

Easting:
1495

Northing:
6687

Grid Reference:
NZ14956687

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1241 >> J. Clayton, 1880, Discovery of a hoard of Roman coins on the Wall of Hadrian,... Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, VIII, 256-80 W.P. Hedley, 1931, The Walbottle (Throckley) Hoard of Roman coins, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VIII, 12-48 J.C. Bruce & C.M. Daniels, 1978, The Handbook to the Roman Wall, 13th ed., p. 74 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1951, Roman coin hoard (3rd c.) Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, Throckley Middle School, Hexham Road, Throckley, Archaeological Assessment, p 6