The Blake Street hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard.[1]
The hoard
editDiscovery and context
editThe hoard was discovered during excavation in 1975 by Richard Hall at Blake Street, York, in the praetentura of the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum.[2] The hoard was located in the foundations of a building dating to the second-century AD.[2]
33 of the coins are in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum and two are in the British Museum.[3]
Contents
editThe hoard contains 35 denarii from the Roman Republican and early-Imperial periods. The latest coin in the hoard is of the Emperor Vespasian.
References
edit- ^ Robertson, A.S. (2000). An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 20. Royal Numismatic Society. p. 12.
- ^ a b Thorp, F. (1976). "The Yorkshire Archaeological Register 1975". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 48: 5.
- ^ Tilley, Emily, ed. (2018). Old Collections, New Questions: Researching the Roman Collections of the Yorkshire Museum (PDF) (Report). Yorkshire Museum. p. 92.