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By Thomas May, F.S.A. (Scot.) 



HE recent publication in a collected form* of par- 

 ticulars of the discovery of a bronze cheese-shaped 

 weight marked I.^ weighing 4,770 grains, in good 

 condition, with numerous horse-trappings of late 

 Keltic work, near Neath, Glamorganshire, and a similar 

 stone weight only 3 grains less in weight at Mayence, 

 and of the frequent discovery in early British sites of the iron 

 money — currency bars of a corresponding weight or two or 

 three times the weight of the unit — mentioned by Caesar, De 

 Bella Gallico, V. 12, as in use by the Britons at the time of 

 his invasion (Utuntur \aut acre atit\ taleis ferreis ad cerium 

 pondus examinatis pro numnio) in no fewer than seven English 

 counties and in large numbers together, has given rise to the 

 belief in my own mind that the series of leaden weights 

 found at Melandra, described as Trade Weights and included 

 in Table I. in my paper contributed to the annual number of 

 the Society's Journal for 1903, are of similar Early British or 

 Late Keltic origin. 



This consideration increases the importance and interest of the 

 discovery, and makes it worth while to add a few supple- 

 mentary notes to my original paper, and to revise the 



« Guide to the Antiquities of tlie Early Iron Age, Brit. I\ftis., 1905. 



