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Society,’ from which I have taken the above account. I may here observe that British coins are 
usually more or less convex on the obverse, and concave on the reverse. 
Fig. 5. First brass coin of Agrippina Senior, wife of Germanicus, born in the year of Rome 
739, before Christ 15 years. The reverse, representing the carpentum, is scarce. Large brass 
coins are rarely found in England, particularly those prior to the time of Claudius. 
I beg to return my best thanks to the gentlemen who have the superintendence of the Numis- 
matical department in the British Museum, who are ready at all times to give every assistance 
and information. I have improved the drawings of the large brass coins of Sabina and Agrippina 
from more perfect specimens in the National collection. 
The parish of Felpham joins Bognor, and opposite the Mill the 
plastic clay may be observed by its peculiar character of red decom- 
posed sulphuret of iron, covering the chalk formation. It contains no 
organic remains, nor can I trace any more deposits of the Eocene 
period immediately on the shore this side of Brighton. The rocks 
called ‘ Middleton Ledge,’ are, I have no doubt, of the Eocene Period, 
but all my endeavours to procure fossils from them have been in- 
effectual ; they are very compact, of a yellowish white colour, consist- 
ing of lime and silex, similar to the calcaire silicieux of the Paris basin. 
Half the parish of Middleton which joins Felpham has been absorbed 
by the sea since the historical period*. The church, of which only the 
walls are left, is now on the shore, and will be in a short time entirely 
destroyed. Bones are protruding from the church-yard, and are car- 
ried away as the tide increases. It repeats the tale, though in a smaller 
degree, of what was the fate of Selsey Cathedral. 
Following the coast we come to the parish of Climping, which in- 
cludes all that remains of the ancient parish of Cudlawe, or Cudlow, 
of which little more than 100 acres have escaped the devastations of 
* Felpham and Middleton parishes, in Doomsday-book, were in the possession of Roger earl of 
Montgomery as belonging to the earldom of Arundel, and mention is there made of a large wood 
which has entirely disappeared. 
+ Between the years 1260 and 1340, a period of only eighty years, sixty acres of land were 
destroyed at Felpham and a similar quantity at Middleton.—Mantell’s Geology of Sussex. 
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