Find Spot record MDO46903 - Iron Age coins, Shapwick

Iron Age coins in the Durden Collection at the British Museum were found between Shapwick village and Badbury Rings. The exact location of this find is not known.

British coins from a field between Shapwick and Badbury Rings included at least one silver coin and two in copper of the same type. <1>

Two Iron Age coins from the Durden collection were found at Shapwick. One is an uninscribed silver stater of Evans type F:1/2, and the other is an uninscribed bronze coin of Cunobelinus, Evans type XIII:3. <2>

An uninscribed silver stater of the Durotriges, Evans type F:1/2, Mack type 317, that was formerly, in the Durden collection is now
in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham. It was found north east of the village of Shapwick at around ST 9402.

A gold plated bronze stater of Cunobelinus, Mack type 203, 10-13, was also found at Shapwick. It is in the British Museum. <3>

<1> British Archaeological Association, 1847, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 336 (Serial). SDO20032.

<2> Evans, J, 1864, Coins of the Ancient Britons, 101, 347 (Monograph). SWX2288.

<3> Frere, S S (ed), 1960, Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain, 20.5.53 (Monograph). SWX2601.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209637 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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