HOARD (ROMAN)

Robertson 2000, 3 no. 14:



""Hawkbach is certainly a very antique site, and the roads from thence through the woods tend towards Wall town, evidently a Roman station, from several gold coins dug up near it; one of Tiberius, very fresh, in the possession of Mr. James Pardoe of Bewdley I have seen."

Stebbing Shaw, Hist. of Staffs. (1798), II, 253

Including Tiberius"

Parish: Restricted Access
District: Wyre Forest
County: Worcestershire
Region: West Midlands
Place known as: Upper Arley
Discovery method: Unknown
Notes: 
This passage is difficult to interpret, it could be taken to mean that the gold coin was found at the Roman town of Wall, Lichfield, but it seems more likely from similar references to the Wyre Forest area [listed in Pastscape 114250] and proximity to Bewdley, to mean that the coin was found at Hawkbach (Hawkbatch in Upper Arley).