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Kingside
Findspot (Period Unassigned), Coin Hoard (Medieval)
Site Name Kingside
Classification Findspot (Period Unassigned), Coin Hoard (Medieval)
Canmore ID 51633
Site Number NT25NW 21
NGR NT 2479 5564
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51633
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Eddleston
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT25NW 21 2479 5564.
(Area: NT 2479 5564) Ancient Gold and Silver Coins found here (NAT)
OS 25" map (1893)
These were found in 1794 in the courtyard of Kingside farm when a horse disturbed a flat stone, revealing a pot or urn containing a great quantity of gold and silver coins. Their exact number was never known; the silver coins crumbled away on removal, and the gold coins were tiven away to various people. The tenant of Kingside had two of them, with the inscription 'Jacobus S. Scotorum Rex', but the date is effaced.
Name Book 1856; NSA 1845
According to the farmer (H Turnbull, Kingside Farm, Leadburn), the coins were found at the above spot in the courtyard of the original farmhouse. The adjoining quarry is still known as the Gold and Silver Quarry
Visited by OS (RD) 23 February 1970
Sbc Note
Visibility: Not applicable. Site of an unprovenanced find.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
