Context (Related Documents)
Found in envelope labelled: 'Grange Road. St John's College Ground site of Mr F.J. Hopkin's house. 1/4 of. John BIrd of Cambridge 1667'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Acquisition Details)
The Accession Register tentatively gives the source for this idno as St John's College, Cambridge, which tallies with Walker's publication (1912, p. 122) in which he notes that the objects from Grange Road were found on St John's College property and belong to the College. The date of the donation is currently unknown, but it seems likely that it was from St John's College possibly via F.G. Walker or perhaps the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Rev. Frederick George Walker during the building of the house 'Saxmeadham', Grange Road, in summer 1911.
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Walker (1912) lists the coins found on the building site, and describes this as 'One farthing token of John Bird, Cambridge, date 1667' (p. 127).
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Walker, F.G. (1912). 'Roman and Saxon Remains from the Grange Road, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 16(2). pp. 122-127
Event Date 1912
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Farthing token of John Bird, Cambridge, dated 1667.
Event Date 18/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Amendments / updates)
These objects were found during the building of a house, named Saxmeadham, for Mr F.G. Hopkins on Grange Road opposite St John's College cricket field. It, and the other items uncovered, were variously accessioned as coming from one, both or neither of these locations. In order to standardise this information, without excluding the possibility that the Roman and Anglo-Saxon material was once part of the St John's College Cricket Field cemetery, the Place field has been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham; ?St John's College Cricket Field'. The Medieval and Post Medieval objects have been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham'.
Event Date 18/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy token of John Bird, farthing. Obverse inscribed ‘IOHN.BIRD.1667’; around beaded inner circle is a shield containing Merchant Taylor's Arms. Reverse inscribed ‘OF CAMBRIDGE’; around beaded inner circle reads ‘1667’.
Event Date 1/2/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang