Gateshead, Roman coins

HER Number:
271

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Roman coins

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Currency

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C2

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In February 1790 the workmen employed in clearing away the rubbish at the top of Church Street in Gateshead, found a hoard of Roman coins in a pot. The few that coulb be recovered from the workmen were of the Emperor Hadrian.

Easting:
2500

Northing:
6300

Grid Reference:
NZ25006300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 271 >> M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. II, p. 332 W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, Vol. I, p. 63 F.W.D. Manders, 1974, A History of Gateshead, p. 1; J.H. Corbitt, 1960, Coin Hoards of the Roman Period from Northern England, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXXVIII, p. 120