358 



1. — Valerianus ... 



2. — Mariniana ' ... 



3. — Gallienus 



4. — Salonina 



5. — Saloninus 



6. — Postumus 



7. — Victorinus ... 



8. — Laelianus 



9.— Marius ... ... ... / 



10. — Tetricus, sen. 

 11. — Tetricus, jun. 

 12— Claudius II. 

 13. — Quintillus 

 14. — Severina 

 15. — Probus 

 IG. — Tacitus 



186 ... 120 



Very near the spot where the last hoard was found another discovery was 

 made a year or two afterwards at a place called Tufthorn ; several thousands of 

 small brass coins were found in an earthen jar, but of these no record was made 

 at the time, and those now remaining are only the refuse left by collectors who 

 had picked them over. 



FOUND AT TUFTHORN ABOUT 1852. 



1. — Gallienus ... 

 2. — Postumus . . 

 3. — Victorinus 

 4.— Tetricus, sen. 

 5. — Tetricus, jun. 

 6.— Claudius II. 

 7.— Quintillus 

 lUesible 



22 

 1 

 73 

 51 

 28 

 25 

 1 

 50 



251 



There was a hoard of many thousands of small brass coins found at Lyd- 

 brook in .1848, but all that is known about them is comprised in a short notice in 

 Brit. Arch. Journal, 1848. 



The situation in which all these coins were found leads to the belief that 

 they were intended for the payment of miners' wages, deposited for temporary 

 safety in some sheltered hole or corner, and covered up by some fall of earth, such 

 as often occurs in these workings at the present time. From the isolated position 

 of this district, cut off from the western limit of Britannia Prima by the dangerous 

 and difficult navigation of the river Severn, it must have been a district of more 

 value as a mercantile than as a military position ; and as no Roman coin has been 

 found here later than the one of AUectus (with the exception of those at the 

 Lydney Villa) it would appear doubtful if the Romans worked the iron mines of 

 the Forest of Dean later than the close of the third century. 



