Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 18063: 'Coin - 2 R/B coins, both pierced for suspension'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The card has the following entry: "In one box, possibly found together. A leaf from a chaplet of box found on a skeleton at Great Chesterford has also got this number"
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Inscription)
Both sides heavily worn; obverse presumably reading: 'IMP CONSTANTINVS [PF] AVG', reverse presumably reading: 'SOLI INVIC|TO COM[ITI]'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for Z 18063 reads: 'Two Roman coins, pierced for suspension'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1924.742 [A-E] reads: 'Two pierced coins, piece of bronze, knife, combs (fragments)'.
Event Date 1924
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1924.742 [A-E]: 'Two coins, 1 of Constantine, 1 illegible, both pierced; Fragments of comb and rivetted bronze, 1 knife; Fragment'
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1924.742 [A-E]: 'Also found: one piece of iron, ?knife; one piece of bronze with rivet through it; another ?fitting of bronze; and about 12 fragments of bone combs, some with metal rivets through'.
Event Date 27/3/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Amendments / updates)
1904 was recorded as the source year for 1924.742 [A-E]. In the absence of documentary evidence, is unknown why this year was given; 1906 is a more likely date as the year of the Jenkinson bequest. Therefore 1904 has been removed from the Source Year records for 1924.742 [A-E].
Event Date 27/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Pierced Roman copper alloy coin. Obverse: laureate head of Constantine. Reverse: vertical figure; partially disfigured due to wear.
Event Date 1/12/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy coin of Constantine I. Obverse with laureate portrait bust of Constantine facing right, depicted as mature with short hair, surrounded by a heavily worn inscription, reading: IMP CONSTANTINVS [PF] AVG, and enclosed by a faint, worn linear border. Reverse showing Sol Invictus standing left, radiate, right arm raised holding an indistinct object, left hand extended downward holding a globe, with a cloak draped over the left forearm; reverse inscription heavily worn, presumably reading: SOLI INVIC|TO COM[ITI], likewise enclosed by a faint, worn linear border. The coin is heavily worn and pierced by an irregular perforation with frayed edges, located near the feet of Sol on the reverse and centrally above the head of Constantine on the obverse.
Event Date 5/2/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Analysis)
The coin can be dated to the early fourth century (c. 310–320 AD) on the basis of its iconography and titulature, combining a laureate portrait of Constantine I with the reverse type of Sol Invictus and the imperial title PF AVG (Pius Felix Augustus). The irregular perforation indicates later modification, most likely to allow suspension, suggesting secondary reuse as a pendant or amuletic object.
Event Date 5/2/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Amendments / updates)
Excavation year amended to 1881, based on the published excavation report (Hollingworth & O’Reilly 1925, p. 12) which records the inhumation in which the coin was found as excavated in that year.
Event Date 5/2/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung