Hookmoor

I do favour a licensing system of some sort, don’t the mudlarks have to get permits for the Thames foreshore?

Agreed 👍

But another report suggests they excavated under supervision - they may have been acting responsibly, or not but we do not yet know.

Fine limestone is the go to material for lithographic prints, but I am struggling to reconcile the design elements. A training piece perhaps ….?

Another couple of images … most of the “etchings” are less than 1 mm deep.

The designs seem far too shallow for moulds … I’ll try to describe later.

We have now uploaded a supplement to the second edition of LMCC II which is available here :

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Further entries are also in the pipeline.

I’ve now cleaned the central roundel … I’m now even more puzzled what this is! A student piece, test piece …. ?

An interesting limestone lithographic plate featuring coins and tokens. One of the images has been reversed to show a positive version. The central feature shows an image of Nostell Priory.

The Melsonby Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 & subsequently declared Treasure. The Yorkshire Museum aim to raise £500,000 to acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. Help keep the hoard in Yorkshire & donate today at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

All the replies/discussion on this are fascinating, thanks!

Save the Melonsby Hoard

#Archaeology #Yorkshire

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Devil’s Arrows at Boroughbridge ….

From the Spink blurb …

Hardback, jacketed, in two volumes
Volume 1: Introduction and Catalogue (712pp)
Volume 2: Indices and Plates (304pp)
276 x 219mm portrait.

Yes it was too big to comfortably fit into a single volume!

It’s out …. Sam Moorhead’s RIC volume on Carausius and Allectus is now available from Spink!

Barton Bendish detectorist finds Roman silver coin hoard - BBC News The loss might have been the equivalent of "a few hundred quid" to its owner, says a coin expert.

Detectorist finds hoard of Roman silver coins.
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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Hoard of coins dating from Roman conquest of Britain found near Utrecht Archaeologists hail very rare discovery of buried coins that suggest details of how military campaign was fought

Newly entered on CHRE: Exciting new hoard found in the Netherlands (Bunnik 2023), dating from the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, mixing Roman denarii and aurei with staters of Cunobelinus!

#numismatics

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Video. Rare Roman-British coin hoard found in the Netherlands Video. Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.

🪙Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.

This photo gives a better idea of the coins' scale. It also includes many of the other coins we'll be covering in the talk. They date from the 12th century to 1707.

From left to right: groat of James III (1484-88); 1575 dated £20 of James VI, the largest circulating hammered gold coin minted in the British Isles & a testoon of Mary Queen of Scots minted soon after her return to Scotland in 1561.

Friday Focus - The Lord Stewartby Collection of Scottish Coins Explore the highlights of The Lord Stewartby Collection of Scottish Coins, held in The Hunterian collections.

I'm giving an online talk on the Lord Stewartby Collection (the largest collection of Scottish coins ever assembled by a private individual) next Friday at 1pm. We'll cover the collection's background and examine many of its highlights. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-foc...

George Orwell to be honoured on new £2 coin by Royal Mint Author of Nineteen Eighty-Four to be commemorated on coin to coincide with 75th anniversary of his death

Given George Orwell’s interests, it will be a great shame if this is a non-circulating coin that is only available to the general public at a “collectors’ premium”. Two pounds is Seven Pounds Fifty …..

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Q. What's the difference between a coin hoard recovered by archaeologists rather than metal detecting?

A. Context

How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?

Hoard of 11th Century coins found at Suffolk Sizewell C site Archaeologists believe the coins belonged to a local figure who was trying to hide his money.

Hoard of 11th Century coins found at Sizewell C
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The 'Yorkshire Numismatic Society' Programme for 2025 is now posted on the website at yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com

A special coin this one! A Viking imitation found in the Baltic states. It copies a radiate helmet type of Aethelred which itself copies a radiate military bust type of Constantine the Great that was struck in London c. AD 312. That’s a lot of history in a battered and pieced bit of silver …

BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast Centenary A collection of programmes and features celebrating 100 years of the Shipping Forecast.

And here's more for the centenary: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

The Poetry of the Shipping Forecast Britannia Designs, Dartmouth Despite being the world's greatest landlubber, I have always loved the Met Office shipping forecast , esp...

#2025 will be the 100th birthday of the #ShippingForecast. Here's my paean to that institution: norseandviking.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...