Find Spot record MDO47996 - Iron Age coin from Furzy Cliff, Weymouth

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 112 (Serial). SDO62.

‘In June 1962 Mr. F. A. Archibald found a silver coin of the Durotriges in the landslip at the edge of Furzy Cliff, Preston (SY 70148196), a site which has been watched for some years.
Dr. Derek Allen writes:- “The Furzy Cliff coin is a Mak 317, a typical struck silver Durotriges coin; but much later than Le Catillon, where the coins still looked very much like the gold prototypes. It is well post-Caesar, say last quarter of 1st century B.C. It is definitely still silver, not bronze – as they can be later still. In Claudian contexts they are always plain bronze. That gives the range of date.” ‘

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