130 ROMAN COINS FOUND AT LITTLE CHESTER. 



the disturbance. This he was successful in doing. He recovered 

 back from them the level country between the Tweed and Forth, 

 and gave to it the name of Valentia, and for the time effected 

 peace. This emperor died in a fit of rage, 17 Nov., A.D. 375; 

 reigned 12 years. The coin we reproduce does not happen to l)e 

 one of his reign, but is that of the second, Valentinianus II. In 

 his reign the revolt of Maximus took place in Britain. He 

 appears to have been very popular, for a large colony of Britons, 

 numbering 130,000 males and above 70,000 females, followed 

 him over the channel, and so originated the province of Brittany. 

 Valentinianus II. died, or, it is supposed, was strangled by Arbo- 

 gastes, in A.D. 392. The third of the name was permitted to 

 assume the title of Augustus when only six years of age, on the 

 death of his uncle Honorius, 425 A.D. ; but, as this emperor is 

 not so intimately associated with events in Britain, we need not 

 trace him further, especially as we have no coin of his reign. He 

 was assassinated at Rome in 455. We may mention, though, that 

 in the reign of his uncle Honorius a revolt took place in Britain, 

 and a private soldier named Constantine was raised to the throne 

 of Britain and Gaul. He crossed over into Gaul in 408 A.D., 

 and, after a varied fortune, came to his end by assassination, 

 A.D. 411. 



" The three circlets of lead, which are here engraved after the 

 exact size and pattern of the originals, were found in a garden at 

 Little Chester, near Derby, close to the remains of the Roman 

 wall. They were at no great depth, and with them were coins, 

 bits of pottery,'and other small relics. They each weigh forty- 

 eight grains. Can they be weights ? So far they have puzzled 



