Find Spot record MDO3118 - Iron Age coins, Winterborne Monkton

Fifty one Iron Age Durotrigian staters were found by a metal detectorist in 1986 and 1988. The coins were declared Treasure Trove at a Coroner's Inquest in December 1988.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1989, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1988, 145 (Serial). SDO88.

‘Twenty-one Durotrigian coins found by Mr K. Bickmore in 1986 in the field immediately east of Maiden Castle were reported in these Proceedings (109 (1987), 124). In October 1988 Mr Bickmore returned to the same area with his metal-detector. He found another thirty staters (R. P. Mack, The Coinage of Ancient Britain, ibid., type 319). These, like the earlier finds, were declared Treasure Trove at a Coroner’s Inquest held on 13 December 1988.’

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