| RefNo | CLP/16/34 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Part of a letter, concerning some Roman coins and other antiquities lately found in Lincolnshire [England]' by [Rastrick] |
| Date | 22 October 1701 |
| Description | The author writes: 'This comes only to acquaint you with what may not be improper to insert in some of your next Philosophical Transactions, viz, that in July last one Edward Lenton, who lives with one Philip Wolverston of Fleet in South Holland in Lincolnshire, being about to fence in a hay-stack, and digging a grip for that purpose about the depth of half a yard, he struck his spade upon a pot, which when he broke, (else nothing could be got out of it) there was no less than 36 pound weight of old Roman copper coin found in it.' Includes three figures of coins.
Subject: Numismatics
Read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1701
Addressed to Hans Sloane
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Part of a letter to the publisher, concerning some Roman coins, and other matters lately observed in Lincolnshire' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1702.0017 |
| LBO/13/174 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8406 | Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector | 1660 - 1753 |