FRECKENHAM 1885

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Location

City

Freckenham (Parish)

Address

Forest Heath (District)

County

Suffolk

Region

Eastern

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.320997 / 0.43419214 / 8.9 view

Location details

Approximate find spot (4-figure grid reference)

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

15166

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/15166

Hoard name

FRECKENHAM 1885

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1885

(to)

31 Dec 1885

Total number of coins

Summary

Hoard unearthed by a labourer working in his garden. The coins were contained in a pot.

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Credit

Discovery method

Gardening
Land Use

Garden
Disposition

British Museum (part); Kings Lynn Museum (part)
Finder(s)

Workers
Closing reign (earliest)

Uncertain (non Roman)
Terminal year (earliest)

-20
Closing reign (latest)

Uncertain (non Roman)
Terminal year (latest)

20
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Good

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A common pot of coarse sun-dried or very slightly baked clay, apparently ornamented by the scratchings of a stick.

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Reference

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/2790

References

Reference

de Jersey, P.J. - 2015 - Coin Hoards from Iron Age Britain

Ref

230

PAS Leicester - British Museum dataset, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (July 2019). Updated by C. Gazdac (Mar. 2026).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

FRECKENHAM 1885

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A common pot of coarse sun-dried or very slightly baked clay, apparently ornamented by the scratchings of a stick.

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References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

FRECKENHAM 1885

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A common pot of coarse sun-dried or very slightly baked clay, apparently ornamented by the scratchings of a stick.

Permalink in other online databases

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire