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- 1985 (Creation)
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"Ashdon (Steventon End) Hoard 1984: Provisional List", typescript (photocopy), five pages on five folios plus two further pages on two folios consisting of photocopies of coin and coin-fragment images, dated 2 January 1985, signed "M.A.S. Blackburn". The hoard consisted in "124 coins and fragments representing the remnants of some 65-70 silver pennies deposited 890/5". The list provides a rough breakdown of the coins as follows:
Guthrum ('Æthelstan') – 4
Guthfrith (?) – 1?
Alfred (incl. Viking imitations, all two-line type) – c.55-60
Carolingian:
Charles the Bald – 3
Odo – 1
The list then gives more detailed descriptions of 66 identifiable coins, many composed of two or more fragments, plus a further 15 fragments of 0.05-0.22g. The list names issuing authority of each identifiable coin with period of rule, obverse legend, reverse legend, occasionally moneyer and BMC reference, weight, comments and find number. The list also gives as much of legends as possible of the fragments with weight, comments and find number.
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For related material, see Mark Blackburn, 'The Ashdon (Essex) hoard and the currency of the Southern Danelaw in the late ninth century', British Numismatic Journal, vol. 59 (1989), pp. 13-38 & pls. 1-2a. See also potentially relevant correspondence of Mark Blackburn to Ian Stewart in JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/BLACKBURN/1980-2006.