Find Spot record 0090501000 - HIGH SCRUBBS, DUNSMORE

Summary

Iron Age metalwork found on ground surface

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Description

Plan Form - CIRCULAR
STATER OF TASCIOVANUS. OBV:CRUCIFORM DESIGN WITH CIRCLES & 2 CRESCENTS IN CENTRE. VER IN VERY SMALL LETTERS SCATTERED IN MAIN DESIGN. REV:MOUNTED WARRIOR FLOURISHING CARNYX. LETTERS TASC SCATTERED ABOUT FIELD. MACK TYPE 156 (B1-2).



SP 85860566) Gold stater of Tasciovanus found in 1920 (B7).
Listed as gold stater of Tasciovanus found 1920 at High Scrubbs, Dunsmore. Mack 156. Now in Aylesbury Museum. (2) Bucks Co Museum Acc No 90:61. Received from Capt G P Woollerton. No further information (B1).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC4678 Bibliographic reference: EVANS J 1864 COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS P218/NUM ISMATIC CHRONICLE 1859 20 P172.
  • <1>SBC975 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1961.
  • <2>SBC368 Article in monograph: D F Allen. 1958. 'THE ORIGINS OF COINAGE IN BRITAIN: A REAPPRAISAL', IN FRERE S S (ED) PROBLEMS OF THE IRON AGE IN SOUTHERN BRITAIN PP97-308. pp220, 236.
  • <3>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <3>SBC11419 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARDS(FILED).
  • <6>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).
  • <7>SBC27667 Cartographic materials: R C Sansome. 1950. Annotated Record Map - Corr 6" (R Cortney Sansome 1950).

Location

Grid reference SP 85800 05700 (point)
Civil Parish ELLESBOROUGH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • COIN (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12822)

Record last edited

Feb 9 2026 12:51PM

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