Find Spot record 0541800000 - Whitchurch

Summary

Saxon metalwork found whilst metal-detecting

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (7th Century to 8th Century - 600 AD to 799 AD)

Description

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
UNIFACE SCEAT. 1 SIDE MUCH WORN SHOWS ANIMAL FACING RIGHT WITH VARIOUS DOTS AND CURVED LINES IN BACKGROUND. PROBABLY A SPECIMEN OF SERIES X (BMC TYPE 45 ). REVERSE COMPLETELY BLANK. SCRATCH MARKS INCUSE ON COIN. PERHAPS RUBBED SMOOTH ON WHETSTONE. FOUND BY MR D.E.CRITOPH APPROX AT NGR (B1-2).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC6402 Article in monograph: D Hill & D M Metcalf (Eds). 1984. 'SCEATTAS IN ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT', 25, NOTES ON SCEATTA FINDS IN BAR BRITISH SERIES 128 PP198-199.
  • <2>SBC9287 Verbal communication: 1984. MR D.CRITOPH AND MR.D.SHELLEY, SEPT 1984.
  • <3>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference SP 79700 21300 (point)
Civil Parish WHITCHURCH, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • COIN (8th Century - 700 AD to 799 AD)

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: Metal-detecting (EBC1258)

Record last edited

Aug 19 2026 11:12AM

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