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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 692008
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692008
NO64SW 13 64 41.
It would appear that at some remote period the town (Arbroath) was known by the name of Abrinca, and that it had possessed a mint, at which coins bearing the name of Abrinca were struck but which are now very rare.
G Cumming 1843
