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one of the pottery kilns, a large lot was found 
within a circle of about ten inches diameter, 
and a foot beneath the surface of the peat. The 
situation in which those moulds and kilns were 
found (only a foot beneath the surface) clearly 
proves what I suggested at the commencement 
of my paper, that the turbaries are not of recent 
formation, but were the same in thereign of Com- 
modus, about 1670 years since. They were made 
from coins of Commodus, Severus of several types, 
Julia Pia, Caracalla, Geta, Julia Mamzxa, Alexander, 
&c. Two perfect coins, one of Severus and the other 
of Geta, were found in them, and were ofthe debased 
white metal used bythe Romans of this district. 
I have never met with many of this kind of metal 
brought from any great distance. Ihave one from 
Chedzoy field, of Orbiana Augusta, and another from 
a large urn, holding nearly two gallons, found at the 
head ofa skeleton,in a Roman cemetery at Yatton, at 
the foot of the encampment known as Cadbury-hill, 
and now the garden of the Rev. Richard Symes. 
The bodies were all deposited about eighteen inches 
below the surface, and the urn of black-ware was 
nearly full of second and third brass coins, of the 
lower empire. I one morning collected forty from 
the village shops, where they had been for some 
weeks passing for farthings. 
In the year 1838, two small leather purses were 
found in a pottery mound ; one contained the smallest 
kind of silver coins of the latter emperors, and the 
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