Jarrow, Roman coin

HER Number:
989

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Roman coin

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Currency

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:
C1

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1924 a boy from the Central School, Jarrow, found a Roman coin, "in the Salt Grass, a waste piece of land near Bede's Monastery". The coin was then sent to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle by one of the teachers. It was of Nero (Lugdunum, c. A.D. 66).

Easting:
33

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ3365

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 989 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1925, Miscellanea, 4, I (for 1923-24), p. 286 J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I,p. 18