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Two Greek Silver Coins from Holne, S. Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Aileen Fox
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Some years ago, in the spring of 1941 or 1942, when Mr. J. Farley of Court Farm, Holne, near Ashburton, was cultivating an outlying field near Ridge Cross to the east of the village, a silver coin was turned up from a depth of 6–9 in. by the plough. On another occasion Mr. Farley found one when digging in his garden, and he put both of them into a little canister on the mantelpiece where his wife kept odds and ends. They remained there even when the Farleys left Court Farm in 1947 for a cottage at Play Cross, until the vicar, the Rev. W. Duke, to whose good offices I am greatly indebted, saw them in 1949 and sent them to Mr. K. Roberts, F.N.S., of Newton Abbot, for identification.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3-4 , October 1950 , pp. 151 - 155
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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References

page 152 note 1 A coin of Alexander I (Balas) is recorded by Dr. Milne from Loddiswell, but no details of discovery are known. Milne, J. G., Finds of Greek Coins in the British Isles, Appendix IV, p. 40Google Scholar.

page 153 note 1 Ibid., p. 30.

page 153 note 2 Ibid., the Rackett collection from Dorset, p. 18.

page 153 note 3 ‘Place abounding in holly’: Place Names of Devon, p. 301.

page 153 note 4 Geological Survey Memoir. The Geology of Dartmoor, 1912, p. 15.

page 153 note 5 Ibid., pp. 44 and 48.

page 153 note 6 See 6-in. map cxiv. NE., in Buckfastleigh parish. In The Victoria County History, Devon, pp. 617-18, Hembury is listed as a motte and bailey, but the large stone mound inside it would appear more likely to be a disturbed Bronze Age'bell'bar-row, with its surrounding bank partly levelled by the fort builders. Sling-stones are recorded from the site.

page 153 note 7 Trans. Dev. Assoc. vi, p. 261. Th e entrance shown here is a modern cut: the so-called ‘guard chamber’ faces outwards to the ditch.

page 154 note 1 Trans. Dev. Assoc. xxxviii, p. 370.

page 154 note 2 Cyril Fox, Antiquity, 1940, p. 427, with maps.

page 155 note 1 Geol. Survey Memoir. Dartmoor, 1912, p. 85. I am indebted to Dr. Alan Stuart of the Dept. of Geology at University College, Exeter, for guidance in these problems of early metal-working in Devon.

page 155 note 2 Compare Davies, O., ‘The Coppermines of Gt. Orme's Head’, Arch. Camb. (1948), p. 61Google Scholar.

page 155 note 3 p. 69. See also p. 58 for the method of streaming,

page 155 note 4 G. R. Lewis, The Stannaries.

page 155 note 5 Antiquity (1940), p. 428.