Monument record LXD 021 - Hartismere House

C17 brown glazed ware, some C16 sherds. (TM 2942 7243 on original HER card).
1973: coin hoard found during construction work at Hartismere House by three builders who divided the group up evenly. Only [less than] one-third of group reported to Lowestoft Coroner (inquest in 1994) - these consisted of 16 coins from 1566 to 1643-9 (latest dated example is 1644). There are seven sixpenses of Elizabeth I, two sixpences of James I and four shillings and three sixpences of Charles I, with a total value of ten shillings. The finders aloso noted the remains of a partly intect leather purse in association with the coins.
The original group originally comprised about 100 coins, probably buried during the civil war period (S1).
Part of the hoard was originally (in Nov 1981) falsely reported as coming from Debenham by one of the finders (an inquest was held in February 1982, see S2).