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image of solidified coins
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, chris lovell, 2017-01-13 15:19:48
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image of solidified coins
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English: Two solidified and melted fused lumps of metal alloys and coins. The first group measures 12cm in length and 7cm in width. Only two coins are identifiable by type, within the melted alloy on the far left is the remains of a modern period fifty pence piece, and on the outside centre a fused five pence piece, both are consistant with the date of the pier fire in 2008. No further details on the coins can be discerned. On the reverse side in the centre a non metal alloy is present and appears to be the remains of a cement this measures 3cm in width and 4cm in length

The second small group of fused and melted coins measures 6.5cm in lenth and 4cm in width it contains at least seven coins and are identifiable as from the left: a ten pence piece, two twenty pence pieces, a fifty pence piece, and what appears to be two melted and fused together twenty pence pieces, all of known types at the time of the fire

Upto £100,000 in cash was thought to have been melted and mangled in the blaze which destroyed the pavilion at Westons Grand Pier in 2008

Fire fighters at the time reported the fire left most coins melted or fused together many having come from the piers 370 slot machines.

The two solidified fused groups were found to the right of the current Pavillion amongst a larger amount of shingle. 300 coins in total were found of multiple type, mainly lower denominations and of pre-2008 types

Depicted place (County of findspot) North Somerset
Date 2008
Accession number
FindID: 824751
Old ref: PUBLIC-8ECB27
Filename: P1080568.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/597178
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/597178/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/824751
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Object location51° 20′ 35.52″ N, 2° 58′ 19.88″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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