Glasgow, Crossmyloof
Coin
Site Name Glasgow, Crossmyloof
Classification Coin
Canmore ID 44296
Site Number NS56SE 35
NGR NS 5744 6264
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44296
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 35 5744 6264.
Mr Gavine (C Gavine, 74 Torrisdale St., Crosshill, Glasgow) states that many years ago, probably about 1875, Roman (?) coins were found on a small hillock which stood at what is now the junction of Moray Place and Vennard Gardens (NS 5744 6264). His informant, Mr W Taylor, over eighty years old in 1945, recollects that as a boy of ten or twelve, he had often seen coins picked up by the potato-diggers in the field then called Moray Park. The coins "were all of copper about the size of a penny but a little thicker," and Mr Taylor believed them to be Roman.
If so, they were probably imperial bronze coins of the first, second, or early third century AD.
A S Robertson 1952.
No further information was found during fieldwork. The site is built upon.
Visited by OS (J L D) 1 April 1954.