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77


Sunderland


Bishopwearmouth, coin hoard


Bishopwearmouth


NZ35NE




Coin Hoard


Post Medieval


C16-C17


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In 1902, when some "ancient dwellings" at the south-east corner of the Bishopwearmouth rectory were demolished and the new fire station constructed, workmen found an oak box containing 300-400 silver coins, "chiefly groats, sixpences and shillings of the reigns of Mary, Elizabeth, James and Charles I". A skeleton of a man, thought to have been the owner of the coins, was found soon afterwards. The whereabouts of the coins is unknown.


3933


5708


NZ39335708



<< HER 77 >> W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 63

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