Blake Street Hoard

The Blake Street hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard.

The hoard

Discovery and context

The hoard was discovered during excavation in 1975 by Richard Hall at Blake Street, York, in the praetentura of the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum. The hoard was located in the foundations of a building dating to the second-century AD.

33 of the coins are in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum and two are in the British Museum.

Contents

The hoard contains 35 denarii from the Roman Republican and early-Imperial periods. The latest coin in the hoard is of the Emperor Vespasian.

References

  1. ↑ Robertson, A.S. (2000). An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 20. Royal Numismatic Society. p. 12.
  2. 1 2 Thorp, F. (1976). "The Yorkshire Archaeological Register 1975". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 48: 5.
  3. ↑ Tilley, Emily, ed. (2018). Old Collections, New Questions: Researching the Roman Collections of the Yorkshire Museum (PDF) (Report). Yorkshire Museum. p. 92.