Find Spot record 4196/0/1 - Iron Age coin and glass bead, Dingley

An Iron Age coin of Cunobelinus, and a glass bead, said to be Roman, were found in the parish before 1712; now lost

{1} Find of an Iron Age coin of Cunobelinus; obverse shows an ear of corn and reverse a horse and 'cuno'; also a green glass bead with blue transverse decoration. Found in a 'woad ground at Dingley'; now lost;

{2} A glass bead, 'found in a Woad-Ground at Dingly... is of a Green colour. It seems to have been glazed at
least in some Parts of it with Blue, and is adorn'd with transverse streaks or furrows'. 'From the same Woad-Ground at Dinley where the Green and transversely furrow'd Bead was found, I have received a coin of King Cunobelin. It has on one side an Ear of Corn, with the inscription Camu: on the other a Horse and underneath Cuno'. It is gold 'with a mixture of silver or some coarser metal'. Illustration;

{3} Dingley: Roman Bead, gold coin.[ Cites authority 2 supra]

{4} Bead listed.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP78NE2 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Morton J., 1712, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, p.499-500 (unchecked) (Book). SNN10113.

<3> George T.J., 1904, An Archaeological Survey of Northamptonshire, p.13 (unchecked) (Index). SNN10170.

<4> 1917, JOURNAL OF THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SO, 19/169 (Journal). SNN28097.

<6> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.34 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<7> ALLEN D., 1963, COINS OF THE CORITANI, 233 (Book). SNN58464.

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Sep 4 2023 2:54PM