Jarrow, Roman coin
Jarrow, Roman coin
HER Number
989
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, Roman coin
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Coin
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
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
433000
Northing
565000
Grid Reference
NZ433000565000
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
J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I,p. 18