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Fig. 2. British coin of pale gold weighing twenty grains, hike one figured in Ruding, plate 1. 
fig. 16. from Dr. Hunter’s cabinet weighing twenty grains. This is not an uncommon type on 
the Kent and Sussex coast. I have seen several similar: two in the possession of Mr. R. Elliott, 
surgeon at Chichester; two or three in the collection of C. R. Smith, Esq., found at Bognor or 
on the Sussex coast. This type was probably struck and passed in the southern counties. 
Fig. 3. Portion of a gold coin of a very similar type, but larger in size, weighing fourteen 
grains: found at Selsey. 
Fig. 4. Large brass coin of Sabina, wife of Hadrian, found with several other brass coins of 
Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina, &c., much decomposed, near the mill at Selsey. Julia 
Sabina, daughter of Matidia, was married to Hadrian, a.p. 100. 
Fig. 5. British or Roman bead, found on the shore at Bracklesham, the size of the drawing : 
made of calcedony: similar to one in the possession of C. R. Smith, Esq., discovered with Roman 
remains, and to some mentioned by Douglas im his ‘ Neenia Britannica.’ 
Fig. 6. British weapon of brass, reduced one-third in size, in excellent preservation, being co- 
vered with a black patina of tin, found at Bracklesham in the bed containing so many shells of 
the Venericardia planicosta. The countryman who found it told me, with much simplicity, that 
“he thought he had discovered the knife by which the former blockaders opened those large 
cockles with, as them fish must have been very good to eat.” 
These weapons are also frequently found in Ireland. 
The general reader must bear in mind, that the ground on which 
Selsey, Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing, and other places on the 
Sussex coast westward of Brighton are built, is a much more recent 
formation than the London clay, being the Post-Phocene division of 
Mr. Lyell’s excellent arrangement*. The Eocene period is represented 
by different deposits, all of which are visible only at low-water ; at 
Bognor by true London clay, and a hard arenaceous limestone of a 
greenish colour peculiar to this locality; at Selsey by London clay, 
* Mr. Lyell’s arrangement of the Fossiliferous strata, observed in Western Europe, placed in 
what is termed a descending series, or beginning with the newest :— 
1. Post-Phocene, including those of the recent or human period. 
Newer Phocene. 
Older Pliocene. 
: Tertiary, or Supra-cretaceous. 
Miocene. 3 P 
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