6 Bradford-upon-Aton. 
cottage near Neston, so called, as Mr, Leman ingeniously conjec- 
tures, because half-way (quasi in medio) between Bath and the 
Roman station of Verlucio, at Highfield near Sandy lane. The 
other great road, which ran from Old Sarum to Uphill, was of 
course at a much greater distance from us. The Fosse-way which 
crossed these two, running from Ischalis (Ilchester) to Durocorno- 
vium (Cirencester), came no nearer to us than Bath, through which 
it passed, intersecting at that point the Via Julia. 
We are not without some clear proofs that, during a part, at 
least, of those three centuries and a half during which they held 
Britain, the Romans were settled in this locality. They were ac- 
customed to record their various conquests in a manner peculiarly 
their own, and admirably calculated to perpetuate their fame to the 
remotest ages. They issued large number of coins, and these were 
—we might almost say, still ave—their gazettes, proclaiming the 
success of their arms and the reduction of rebellious provinces to 
submission. These coins are found in considerable numbers in the 
upper part of the town, in what is called Budbury. 
No coin of the Roman period has been found, so far as we are 
aware, in or near Bradford, to which we could with any certainty 
assign a very early date. One or two of Antoninus Pius have been 
discovered, about the date, that is, of a.p. 150. The earliest, how- 
ever, that has been found in any number, is a small brass coin of 
Vicrorinus, who was commissioned by the Emperor Probus, with 
whom he was a great favourite, to subdue a revolt in Britain about 
A.D. 275. Several have been found also of Trerricus,—of VALENs, 
—and of ConsTantTINE the Great, the first who assumed the im- 
perial purple in Britain. A few of Crispus; several of Carausius, 
the admiral of the Roman fleet, who secured for himself at one time 
an all but independent sovereignty in Britain; some of ALLECcTUS, 
first the friend, then the betrayer, of Carausius; many of ConsTan- 
TINE Junior, and also of the Urss Roma coin, with the reverse of 
Romulus and Remus suckled by the wolf; a few of ConstantTINo- 
potis, This enumeration brings us down to the latter part of the 
fourth century.' 
' The following coins, amongst others, have been sent to the writer within the 
last few months, and have all been found in the neighbourhood; and for 
