Coin Finds of the Huddersfield District
By Graham Teasdill
Edited By E. W. Aubrook

CHAPTER 2: ROMAN COINS

CROW KNOWL (National Grid Reference 963098)
There is an empty coin envelope in the Museum labeled “Found at Crow Knowl, Mr. G. Radford, Denshaw, coin of Antoninius Pius (A.D. 137-161).” Richmond describes the coin as a “third brass” and illegible, which suggests that he was able to inspect it but there is now not sufficient evidence to locate the coin.

EDGERTON, HUDDERSFIELD
A billon tetradrachm of Nero, struck at Alexandria, was dug up in a garden at Edgerton and presented to the Museum by Mr. John Briggs, 42 Ashbrow Road, Huddersfield on June 14th, 1927.

HAIGH CROSS, near Slack, 1824 (National Grid Reference S.E. 107089)
An antoninianus of Aurelian (271-275 A.D.) and a sestertius of Vespasian (69-79 A.D.) were found at Haigh Cross about 1824 by J. Stott. They were formerly in the possession of J. Stott Armitage, J.P., but their present location is unknown.

HEPWORTH, MEAL HILL, 1840 (National Grid Reference S.E. 168070)
About 1840 a coin believed to be a denarius of Caracalla (211-217 A.D.) was found near Meal Hill, Hepworth.

HOLMFIRTH, 1830
H.J. Morehouse in his “History of Topography or the Parish of Kirkburton” records that a gold aureus of Carinus (283-285 A.D.) was found at Holmfirth in 1830 by James Barroclough, of South Lane, in his garden. The coin passed into the possession of John Harpin, J.P., of Birks House and is described by Morehouse as :-

HONLEY, FISHER GREEN, 1957 (National Grid Reference S.E. 13401140)
A copper follies of Flavia Julia Helena, first wife of Constantius Chlorus ( 305-306 A.D.) was picked up by the roadside at Fisher Green early in 1957 by Miss S. Maddock of Honley. Its condition suggested that it was a recent loss but the evidence was not conclusive. It has now been presented to the Museum.

KIRKHEATON (National Grid Reference S.E. 182173)
In the museum collection there is an antoninianus of Victorinus (265-270 A.D.) which was found at Hole Bottom, near Kirkheaton Rectory and presented to the Museum by C.F. Cameron of Lepton in 1912.

LIGHTCLIFFE, 1833 (National Grid Reference S.E. 140253)
A Silver coin of L. Scipio Asiaticus was found in the Chapel Yard at Lightcliffe in 1833 and taken to the Yorkshire Museum at York.
An examination of the cabinet in that Museum has revealed a coin of this type which must certainly have been in the collection before 1854 because it is listed in Canon Wellbeloved’s “Catalogue of Roman Coins in the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society” which was published in that year. This is the only coin of Scipio Asiaticus in Wellbeloved’s Catalogue and its attribution to Lightcliffe seems also certain.

LINTHWAITE, COLNE VALLEY
Mr K. Wood of Dalton brought two coins to the Museum for identification in October, 1959 and reported that they had been found at Linthwaite.

LOMINOT, COLNE VALLEY (National Grid Reference S.E. 010125)
Early in 1957 a silver denarius of Caracella (211-217 A.D.) was found at Lominot and presented to the Museum. It may have been a casual loss.

RASTRICK (National Grid Reference S.E. 139218)
A Copper coin of Gallienus (258-268 A.D.) was found by the roadside at Castle Hill, Rastrick, during the 19th century.

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