Findspot - Roman coin hoard
Documentary evidence suggests that a hoard of Roman coins was found at this site at the end of the 18th century. The coins had been put inside an urn. The hoard was found 3km south east of Stratford on Avon.
1 About 1790, at Monks Close, adjoining the London road, two and a half miles from Stratford, an urn containing a great number of Roman coins, both gold and silver, was ploughed up. The informant only saw one of them and that was of Magnus Maximus. The greater part of the hoard came into the possession of Boot of Atherstone-on-Stour who occupies the land.
2 An urn of gold and silver coins (one of Magnus Maximus) is said to have been found here, or near here, in 1786. A gold coin of Valens (PRN 1003) could have been part of this hoard.
3 At the above grid reference, approximately two and a half miles S of Stratford on the London Road is a bridge once tended by the Priory of Worcester. This probably marks Monks Close.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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