270 



The coins which have at the present and for some time past 

 been met with, are few and unimportant, and of not the earliest 

 periods. They are also in so bad a state of preservation, that 

 being unable to decypher several, the Rev. C. Wellbeloved has 

 kindly examined them for me ; but I was only able to furnish 

 him with impressions in wax. They are three silver denarii, viz., 



1. Obv. IMP. C. M. AVR. SEV. ALEXANDEE. AVG. 



Rev. lovi. viCTORi. Jupiter sitting. 



2. Obv. ANTONINVS. AVG. PIVS. P. P. TR. P. XVII. 



Rev. COS. ini. A female figure standing ; in her left 

 hand the palladium, in her right an ampulla. 



3. Obv. IMP. c. POSTVMVS. P. F. AVG. Head with diadem. 

 Rev. p. M. TR. p. COS. II. P. p. A military figure stand- 

 ing ; in his left hand a spear, in his right hand a 

 globe. 



The remaining coins are middle brass. 



4. Obv. CONSTANTIVS. P. F. AVG. 



Rev. SOLI. iNViCTO. coMiTi. In the area t. f. In the 

 exergue p t r. 



VALENTINIANVS 



Illegible. 



lOVI. VICTORI. 



CONSTANS or CONSTANTIVS 



Illegible. 



VICTORIA 



D. N. CONSTANTIVS 



Illegible. A military figure smiting a captive. 

 From the general character of the remains and nature of the 

 objects found on the site, there can, I suppose, be no hesitation 

 in looking upon the foundations at Dalton Parlours as the 

 remains of a villa, in which some wealthy Roman citizen, 

 exchanging the "fumum et opes strepitumque Romae" for the 

 delights of a rural residence, had furnished himself with his 



places of Boman occupation. This fact may be looked upon as an illustration of 

 Tertullian and some other authorities, who assert that the ciistom of worshipping 

 the Lares arose from the antients interring their dead in their houses, and which 

 they adopted in order that their friends, even in death, might be near them. 



2m 



