Find Spot record 1539/0/1 - Unstratified, unlocated finds from Brackley

Finds dating from the Bronze Age to the medieval period

Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 30 April 2004 (Ante)
Methods of discovery: Metal detector

{1} An Iron Age gold coin of the Dobunni is recorded; A sceatta in Northampton Museum was perhaps found in Brackley before 1902.
A late Saxon dagger said to be from Brackley is in the Ashmolean Museum.

{2} A medieval (C14-15th) iron 'kidney dagger' was found during foundation trenching for a cottage in 1940.

{3} A Bronze Age axe was discovered during metal detecting in 1981 - location unknown

{4} An irregular copper alloy object, which appears to have been heat damaged. It is difficult to be sure of what the object may have been but it is possible that it was a shield shaped mount.

{5}An Iron Age gold coin of the Dobunni is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

{6} Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 01 January 1977
Copper alloy unit of Tasciovanus

Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 01 January 2003
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Quarter Stater (copper alloy)

{12} Dobunnic gold-coin inscribed Anted-Rig found in Brackley (SP5836).

{13} Northampton Museum have no knowledge of the Iron Age coin.

<0> Portable Antiquities Database Records, Portable Antiquities Scheme web page for CCI-780032 (Database). SNN108117.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.21 & 23 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> Northampton Museum Records, 1967 Feb 5 (Letter) (checked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<3> 1982, The Banbury Guardian, (unchecked) (Journal). SNN46910.

<4> Portable Antiquities Database, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102227.

<5> MACK, /386 (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN15519.

<6> Portable Antiquities Database, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102227.

<7> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.255 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP53NE15 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<9> 1977, British Numismatic Journal, 47/34 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN59725.

<10> Ashmolean Museum Accession Register, (checked) (Catalogue). SNN10110.

<11> Evans J., 1864, Coins of The Ancient Britons, 1890 Supplement p.489 (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN7170.

<12> Frere S. (Ed.), 1958, Problems of The Iron Age in Southern Britain, p.251 (unchecked) (Book). SNN7173.

<13> Colquhoun, FD, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, F1 FDC 2-MAY-70 (Notes). SNN111540.

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