{"id":64,"date":"2013-04-28T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-05-27T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:02:51","slug":"coin-of-henry-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/04\/28\/coin-of-henry-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin of Henry VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the exciting aspects of archaeology is never knowing what you might find. This is the story of an object that post-dates the villa by a thousand years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 we trialled some systematic metal detecting using the grid system that had been set up for the geophysics. We found a small number of Roman coins (which I&#8217;ll try and post something about in the future) and much to our surprise a gold coin struck in the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/historyofthemonarchy\/kingsandqueensofengland\/thetudors\/henryviii.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Henry VIII<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/tudor\/monarchs\/aragon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine of Aragon<\/a> (1526-1533).<\/p>\n<p>The coin was identified as a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britnumsoc.org\/publications\/Digital%20BNJ\/pdfs\/1931_BNJ_21_7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Crown of the Double Rose<\/a>&#8216; by Dr Rob Collins and logged on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finds.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Portable Antiquities Scheme<\/a> as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/412598\" target=\"_blank\">NCL-833393<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"doublecrownHVIII by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/8855912640\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2883\/8855912640_39334f7676.jpg\" alt=\"doublecrownHVIII\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold coin of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obverse description: double rose crowned, with crowned initials (h &amp; K) to each side<\/p>\n<p>Obverse inscription: hENRIC VIII RVTILANS ROSA SIE SPIA<\/p>\n<p>Reverse description: shield bearing royal arms of England crowned, with crowned initials (h &amp; K) to each side<br \/>\nReverse inscription: DEI G R AGLIE FRANC DNS hIBERNIE<br \/>\nInitial mark: lis<br \/>\nDegree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the exciting aspects of archaeology is never knowing what you might find. This is the story of an object that post-dates the villa by a thousand years. In 2009 we trialled some systematic metal detecting using the grid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/04\/28\/coin-of-henry-viii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}