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Artefacts & Environmental Evidence: Coins

Craig Barclay

A total of seventeen coins were recovered during excavation; two 4th century Roman coins, nine from Anglian features being seven sceatta and two stycas, four from monastic period deposits, two pennies and two jettons, one French and two from post-Dissolution or early modern contexts, a trade token and a coin weight.

Catalogue

Period 2

Find no 2143, residual in Period 3 pit F241, C1531, AE 4; Constantius II; 347-48

Find no 2206, residual in Period 7 pit F514, C2100, AE fragment; Roman; 4th century

Period 3

Find no 307, Period 6 pit F4, C1030, AR secondary sceat; c. 710-60
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Find no 373, Period 3 pit F64, C1345, AE styca; Irregular issue; mid-9th century
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Find no 2090, residual in Period 8 layer C1283, AR sceat; Archbishop Ecgberht (with Eadberht); c.737-58
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Find no 2091, residual in Period 9 layer C1228, AR sceat; Eadberht; 737-58
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Find no 2139, Period 3 pit F143, C1535, AR sceat; Continental; c.695-c.740
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Find no 2188, residual in Period 6 pit F315, C1696, AE styca; Aethelred II (second reign); 843/4-49/50
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Find no 2195, Period 3 pit F381, C1846, AR sceat; Eadberht; 737-58
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Find no 2197, Period 3 pit F164, C1341, AR sceat; Continental; c.695-c.740
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Find no 2205, Period 3 pit F381, C2062, AR sceat; Continental; c.695-c.740
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Period 6

Find no 2088, residual in Period 7 pit F198, C1383, AR penny; Edward III; Durham; 1327-77
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Find no 2074, residual in Period 7 pit F198, C1383, AR halfpenny; Edward III (?); c.1327-77
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Find no 2078, residual in Period 7 pit F198, C1444, AE jetton; English; late 13th to early 14th century
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Period 7

Find no 2077, Period 7 pit F198, C1383, AE jetton; French; 15th century
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Period 9

Find no 379, Period 9 layer C1003, AE halfpenny token; York (Richard Booth/Golden Fleece); c. 1670
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Find no 2082, Period 9 pit F192, C1377, AE coin weight, c.18th century