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at Worbarrow; the large rounded stones forming a kind of 

 foundation to the artificial soil, the Coal Money occupying the 

 mid depth, and that he found fragments of Samian ware. He 

 gives the following description; "thus, in the absence of positive 

 positions, our general observations can only be deduced from 

 casiial discoveries and various analogies. It is, however, evident 

 that the people who inhabited this spot, were acquainted with the 

 method of carving stone, since I foimd a large portion of a shal- 

 low circular patera, not destitute of elegance, and formed of 

 granite. But the most decisive and singular point, which has 

 hitherto come under my actual observation, and which throws 

 a more decided light upon the use of 'Coal Money,' is a cist on 

 the edge of the cliff containing a sacrifice. At the depth of a 

 foot and a half from the surface, a pentagonal chamber, four 

 feet by three, and a foot and a half high, was formed by large 

 flat stones of the Kimmeridge material. These slates were per- 

 pendicularly placed, supporting larger ones, which formed a roof 

 or covering. Within this chamber was a coarse patera of a 

 reddish kind of brick earth, intermixed with pieces of white and 

 yellow clay. This rude kind of pottery had imdergone but a 

 very partial heat, and was too friable to preserve entire. This 

 patera was resting on large loose stones, its edges were raised two 

 inches round its sides, and in it was deposited the head of a 

 bullock, while the appearance of the roots whence the horns pro- 

 truded, indicated the animal to have been young. Within this 

 chamber neither Coal Money nor bones were deposited; but 

 around it, on the outside, in every direction, the fragments of 

 pottery, Coal Money, and remains of animal bones were very 

 abundant. The chamber having been closely examined, the 

 laboiu-ers removed the usual black mould, and within the space 

 of two square feet on the western side of this singular deposit, 

 we were fortimate enough to discover upwards of eighty pieces 

 of Coal Money, varying in their dimensions." 



It is upon the strength of this discovery, that Mr. Miles ascribes 

 the origin of the ^Coal MoTieif to a Phoenician or Carthaginiim 

 Colony settled in these Bays. He aflSrms that "these relics 

 cannot be attributed to either the Danes or the Saxons^'' and 

 he argues that, "from the remains of pottery, and also from topo- 

 graphical situation, neither Kimmeridge or Worbarrow were 



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