Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670631

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 20 c. 938 060.

(Area NJ 938 060) Two Roman bronze coins of Constantine the Great (306-337) and of Constans (337-350) were found c.1890 in Windmill Brae (NJ 9382 0600-NJ 9394 0601) (OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 1st ed. 1866).

G MacDonald 1924; Information from Aberdeen Evening Express, 7 February 1923.

No further information.

Visited by OS (JLD) 22 August 1952.

(Location cited as NJ 9382 0600 on unstated evidence).

(Newspaper reference cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.

The present whereabouts of two fourth-century Roman coins, which were found about 1890, are not known.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 7 May 2002.