Two lucky finds
Silver penny of Edward I, about 28th year AD 1300 dug up on making alterations in the Priory, Tickhill, and in the possession of Mr T Lister. Obverse side – full faced head with an open crown fleury, the hair extending on each side of the face. Legend “† Edw R Angl Dux Hyb”. Reverse side – a cross extending to the edge of the coin and pellets. Legend “Civitas London”. Present weight 21 grains, original 22 grains.’ (‘North British Daily Mail’, Tuesday, 4 November 1851, page 4.)
This Roman brooch or fibula (below) was ploughed up in a field south of Wadworth near the Tickhill-Worksop road at the beginning of the 20th century. It is 2¾ inches long. Hull’s City Museum Curator noticed it in a shop in Doncaster and acquired it. The following is an extract from an article in the ‘Bradford Weekly Telegraph’, Friday, 1 December 1905, page 6.
‘It is an ordinary type of fibula, but is in an unusual state of preservation and the pin or acus is of bronze and still in position and in working order. Fibulae are generally found minus the pin. As will be seen from the figure, the fibula is not lacking in ornamentation. At the shoulder and at the bottom are two discs, in the centre of each of which has originally been a piece of enamel, that on the shoulder evidently being blue in colour, while the other appears to have been red. The bronze ring at the top of the brooch was there that it might be sewn on to the dress in order to prevent its loss. The specimen finds a resting place in the City Museum, being one of the finest in the collection…'
