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1887.1.258

Coin. [LKG 20/01/2010]

1887.1.258

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Collection type
Object
Description
Coin. [LKG 20/01/2010]
Long description
Coin. Brown coin with traces of orange rust on one side. The other side has a raised portrait profile design around which are areas of green corrosion. The coin is not perfectly circular. [LKG 20/01/2010]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Roman
Date collected
1872
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Struck
Dimensions
Diameter: max 16 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.258
Research and responses

Note that this is not Lambourne but Lambourn in Berkshire, where Henry Hippisley's home was [AP 30/01/2007]

At least 5 Roman coins are recorded as having been found at Lambourn on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record, see monument no's. 229004, 229007, 229010, 229016. The coins in the PRM may be associated with 229016 , to access this, and the other records please see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk. [MN 03/06/2009]

It may be that the coins discussed at a Newbury District Field Club meeting include those now in the Pitt Rivers museum. Full reference: Money, W. (ed) 1886. Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club 1886-95: 204-205 [CB 8/12/2009]

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