Dr Murray Andrews

Archaeological Numismatist

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London’s oldest medieval coin? New publication for November 2020

16 November 2020 /

Another new article for you!

The 2019 Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society have just been released. This year’s offering is a treasure-trove of London archaeology, presenting new results from the Roman cemetery at Harper Road, Southwark, re-analysis of building stone from the Tower of London, and major new evidence for Lundenwic’s Middle Saxon waterfront from the Adelphi Building, Westminster.

This last article, authored by PCA’s excellent Dougie Killock, includes my report on the coins from the site. Remarkably, these include what may well be London’s earliest medieval coin: a mid-7th century pale gold shilling (‘thrymsa’) from a secure waterfront context. A gem of a coin from a gem of a site – no wonder the editors chose it as the cover image!

Why not have a read? To purchase a copy, get in touch with the Society via their website.

For a full list of my publications to date, check out the ‘Publications’ page on this website: here.

Tudor coins and Shropshire hoards: new publication for October 2020

5 October 2020 /

New publication alert!

I’ve just received my copy of the 2020 Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society, the annual journal of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society. This issue contains intriguing articles on excavations at Frogmore Hall, early 19th century church restorations, and a short note by me on an Elizabethan gold coin from the Madeley Court coin hoard. As it happens, this is quite an important coin, which forces us to reconsider the  circumstances in which this important Stuart-era hoard was buried.

Why not have a read? To purchase a copy, get in touch with the Society via their website.

For a full list of my publications to date, check out the ‘Publications’ page on this website: here.

New publication – May 2020

8 May 2020 /

New publication alert!

I have just received my copy of the latest issue of Glevensis, the annual journal of the Gloucestershire Archaeology Society. This issue includes fascinating articles on the monastic water system at St Mary’s Square, Gloucester, updates on work at the Augustinian priory of Llanthony Secunda, and an article by me on a coin hoard of the Tudor ‘Great Debasement’ (1544-51) found at Cirencester. Why not check it out? To purchase a copy, get in touch with the Society via their website.

M. Andrews, ‘A nineteenth-century find of a ‘Great Debasement’ coin hoard from Cirencester’, Glevensis, 52 (2019), 9-10.

For a full list of my publications to date, check out the ‘Publications’ page on this website: here.

‘Coin hoarding’ book nominated for international book prize

14 February 2020 /

I am pleased to announce that my latest book, ‘Coin hoarding in medieval England and Wales, c.973-1544. Behaviours, motivations, and mentalités’ (Oxford: BAR, 2019), has been nominated for the International Association of Professional Numismatists (IAPN) Book Prize!

Founded in 1951, the IAPN is the world’s leading association of numismatic firms, bringing together  more than 114 companies operating across five continents. Since 1982 it has awarded a prize for the best numismatic publication issued each year. Previous winners of the prize have included leading scholars like Philip Grierson, Mark Blackburn, Michael Metcalf, and Catherine Eagleton. It is a great honour to be shortlisted for such a prestigious award!

Why not have a look at the book yourself? You can buy copies direct from the publisher, BAR, via their website.

New publication – November 2019

20 November 2019 /

Bumper publication alert!

I’ve just recieved my copy of the latest issue of the Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society. It contains some intriguing articles on prehistoric and Romano-British enclosures at Burton, the Victorian mansion at Backford Hall, and an article by me on a fifteenth-century coin hoard from the Shoemaker’s Row, Chester. Copies are available directly from the Society: check out their website for more details.

M. Andrews, ‘A neglected nineteenth-century find of a fifteenth-century coin hoard from Shoemaker’s Row, Northgate Street, Chester’, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, 2nd ser., 89 (2019), 145-149.

In addition, a small article that I have written for the Bulletin of the Surrey Archaeological Society is now available online. This explores an eighteenth-century record of a late medieval coin hoard found at Kingston upon Thames. You can read it here.

For a full list of my publications to date, check out the ‘Publications’ page on this website: here.

‘Hoarding and deposition in Europe from later prehistory to the medieval period – finds in context’

18 October 2019 /

Back in June I had the pleasure of speaking at the joint meeting of the Later Prehistoric Finds Group, Roman Finds Group, Finds Research Group, and Instrumentum, held at King’s College London. My paper, ‘Picking and choosing? Selection, retention, and value in medieval English and Welsh coin hoards, c.973-1544’, discussed the different considerations – economic, symbolic, emotional, and mnemonic – that influenced medieval hoarding practices, topics that are all addressed in my forthcoming book, Coin hoarding in medieval England and Wales, c.973-1544: Behaviours, motivations, and mentalités. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, and found it an excellent opportunity to discuss research across traditional period boundaries, and to emphasise the importance of coins as evidence for our medieval past. Rob Webley has written an excellent review of the conference in the Autumn 2019 edition of the Finds Research Group newsletter – featuring a picture of yours truly!

My name in print: October 2019 edition!
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