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^ poavJr of ^omim Coin^ fouu^ at 

 §a])iitoii, Milts. 



By H. St. George Gray. 



The Roman coins which are described in the following pages 

 have been examined by me through the kindness of Mr. Herbert 

 Bassett, of Broadway, near Ilminster. He informs me that they 

 form the greater part of a hoard found at Baynton about the year 

 1830 in a broken pot (the pieces of which were not saved) on the 

 estate of the late Capt. John Long, of the Royal Horse Guards, of 

 Baynton House, Westbury. Baynton House is in the parish of 

 East Coulston, about two miles from Edington Station and six or 

 seven miles N.E. of Westbury. 



Nothing else appears to be known of the exact place or gisemcnt 

 of the discovery, which is a matter of considerable regret. It is 

 feared that many of the coins making up the hoard have been 

 dispersed, — a deplorable state of things which, unfortunately, is 

 quite usual : and it is a well known fact that very few hoards of 

 this kind have been preserved in their entirety. I have recently 

 examined what remains of a hoard of about 150 silver denarii 

 found at North Curry, Somerset, in 1748.^ Most of these coins 

 were in the possession of a Mr. Woodforde, Vicar of North Curry, 

 soon after the discovery, but successive generations of the family 

 have dispersed them amongst relatives, till in 1906 only eight 

 remained in the possession of the great-grand-daughter of the 

 aforesaid Mr. Woodforde.- 



' Proc. Som. Arch. Soc, vol. lii., 1906, pt. 2, pp. 132—135. 



■ These are now in Taunton Castle Museum, the only representatives of 

 this important hoard. 



