Sunderland, Roman coin

HER Number:
56

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Roman coin

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Currency

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C1

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A first brass coin of Nero (54-68 A.D.) was found in a brickyard near Sunderland in 1861. Neither the precise location of the brickyard in which it was found, nor the present location of the coin are known. The original source appears to have ben a contemporary newspaper report.

Easting:
41

Northing:
57

Grid Reference:
NZ4157

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 56 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1876, Durham and Sadberge, Pagan Period, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2,VII, p. 89 J.W. Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, p. 12 J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I, p. 27 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Roman coin