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same age, or a relic of an older time, I must leave to those better acquainted with 

 such matters to determine. It is to be noticed that no names of Welsh oriprin 

 occur on this side of the Dyke, though where it and the river are not in close 

 proximity Welsh names occur between the river and the Dyke. 



Of the work of Norman and subsequent periods we have good example in 

 the Castle of St. Briavel's, though the great Norman keep fell some years ago. 

 The Church which stands near to it has also much of its Norman character remain- 

 ing, and at Staunton there is a Church of the same period. In both these 

 Churches the old fonts remain. The one at Staunton was formerly considered to 

 be a Roman altar, made into a Christian font, but good authorities consider it is 

 an ill designed and clumsily executed example of a not very early Norman font. 

 At Clearwell there is a good specimen of the base of a 14th century village cross, 

 and two others of a similar Icind remain in the neighbourhood, at Lyduey and 

 Aylburton. I do not refer to our fine parish Church, or the grand old oak, as 

 both these have been described by abler hands than mine. 



Mrs. Bagnall-Oakeley next presented her paper upon 



ROMAN COINS FOUND IN THE FOREST OF DEAN, 



which had been reprinted from the " Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. II., Third 

 Series," pages 52 — 56, 1882, from which the following extracts are made :— 



Nearly the whole of the coins discovered have been found either in the 

 ancient iron workings themselves, or closely adjacent to them. Near Lydney, 

 where are the remains of a temple and a Roman villa, previously referred to, large 

 quantities of gold, silver, and brass coins have been found of all the Emperors, 

 from Augustus to Arcadius. In an ancient iron mine near the town was 

 discovered the only hoard of silver denarii which has been recorded in the 

 neighbourhood ; they were contained in an earthen jar, and were mostly in a fine 

 state of preservation. The coins are as follows : — 



HO.AED OF SILVER COINS FOUND NKAE 



1. — Marc Antony 



2.— Nero ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1 plated 



3.— Galba 



4, — Vitellius 



5.— Vespasianus ... 



6.— Titus ... 



7. — Domitianus ... 



8.— Nerva 



9. — Trajanus 

 10. — Hadrianus ... 

 11. — Sabina 

 12. — Antoninus Pius 

 13. — Faustina, sen. 



