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Description: | The Department of Coins and Medals holds approximately 800 Celtic coins, including the 428 coins found together in the Iron Age Joist Fen/Lakenheath Hoard. Of these, all but three coins are silver, the remainder being gold coins. The silver coins in the hoard are fairly uniform as all the coins came from the same coin-stream, buried at the same time. It is thought that the Lakenheath Hoard was buried by an Iceni group due to political unrest resulting from Roman imposition; the coins prominently feature the crescent/horse pattern typical of Iceni coinage.
The Fitzwilliam Museum has been involved with the creation of the Celtic Coin Index and details of the relevant holdings appear there as well as in the Museum OPAC. | Format: | physical | Subjects: | Numismatics Gold Archaeology Silver Coins | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8385 | Format: | physical | Go to resource |
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