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Thisk, in Ayrshire, after digging through many feet of sand." 



About the year 1851 I was shown, in a cottage at Langton 

 Matravers, a pipe of like character, which was represented as 

 having been brought from the clay works at either Creech or 

 Norden; where, in moving surface earth, so vast a number 

 were discovered as to suggest the probability that they had 

 been manufactured at the spot. However, I here leave the 

 Bubject for further investigation. 



It is evident, from the result of this day's exploration, that 

 the whole area which I have previously described, must have 

 contained many thousands of ** Coal-money." Off each piece, 

 at least one ring must have been turned. We find only a few 

 broken ones, and the records of four or five perfect armlets 

 amongst Roman remains elsewhere. And considering, the 

 question naturally suggests itself, for what market were they 

 manufactured? Doubtless there must have been an export 

 trade, but its direction has yet to be discovered. 



PI. xxiv. Represents additional varieties of ** Coal-money" 

 from the Grange. 



PL XXV. Represents a circular ornamented disk of Kimme- 

 ridge coal, found whilst lowering the hill, North of King 

 Edward's bridge, at Corfe Castle. It is in the possession of 

 Charles "Wilcox, Esq., of Wareham. 



PI. xxvi. Fig. 2. Represents the portion of an armlet orna- 

 mented with notches, found at Kimmeridge. It is in the 

 possession of the Rev. 0. L. Mansol. 



Since my last paper (Page 82) upon this subject, I have 

 obtained also from other sources some additional information, 

 which is worthy of notice. In Vol. xiii. Page 407 of the 

 Archeoological Journal is a notice of some reliques found in 

 Ireland, near Donaghadee, in the County of Down, supposed 

 to be Roman. Amongst them were two armillsB, one of purple 

 glass cast in a mould, the other of Kimmeridge shale. They 

 each measured 2J-in. in diameter At Hod Hill in Dorset, 



