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PODINGTON WOLD

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Location

City

Podington

County

Bedford

Region

Eastern

Country

England, United Kingdom

Lat/Long/Alt

52.248161 / -0.6245473 / 95.9 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

Location displays approximate coordinates centred on four figure grid reference.

Information

ID

33

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/33

Hoard name

PODINGTON WOLD

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1 Jan 1800

(to)

31 May 1817

Total number of coins

15

Summary

15 coins in a pot, found on Podington Wold in the early 19th century, including coins of Gallienus (AD 253-268) and Philippus Augustus (AD 244-249), a stone described as of circular form with a hole for a winch, which sounds like a rotary quern, and fragments of pottery.

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Discovery method

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Valerian I and Gallienus
Terminal year (earliest)

253
Closing reign (latest)

Gallienus (sole)
Terminal year (latest)

268
Coin-level data

Not available

Fetching coin data

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

'pot'

Objects belonging to this hoard

Rotary quern
A stone described as of circular form with a hole for a winch

Potery
fragments of pottery

Permalink in other online databases

The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

Ref

https://finds.org.uk/database/hoards/record/id/26

References

Reference

Ref

473A

Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. PAS Leicester - British Museum dataset, imported and edited by M. Spoerri (Spring 2019).