APPENDIX. 



Br LORD SELBORNE. 



THE conclusion, drawn by White from the discovery of Roman 

 coins during the first half of the last century in the bed of 

 Woolmer Pond, that Selborne was not unknown to the Romans 

 (" Antiquities," p. 1), has been abundantly confirmed by other 

 and more recent discoveries. 



About the year 1774, (as appears by a letter dated in August 

 1777, from Mr. Sewell, then residing at Headley, to Mr. 

 White, for the communication of which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Professor Bell,) a large pot of coins or medals was 

 also found in Woolmer Pond, from which Mr. Sewell obtained a 

 complete series of all the Roman Emperors, from Claudius the 

 First to Commodus (both inclusive), and the two Faustinas, and 

 Crispina, the wife of Commodus, extending over nearly 15U 

 years, from A.D. 43 to A.D. 194. There were none, he says, later 

 than Commodus. And I learn from Mr. Prettejohn (now 

 residing at Yanston in Devonshire), who lived for more than 

 thirty years near Woolmer Pond, and was " foreman " of the 

 Forest for a period including the reign of George the Fourth, 

 that in his time Roman coins were occasionally found in the 

 gravel and sand of Woolmer Pond, on the Blackmoor side, and 

 sometimes also in the old roads and paths in the open Forest, and 

 within the present grounds- of Blackmoor House. He himself, 

 and other members of his family, have found more than twenty, 

 among the siftings of gravel, dug to repair the turnpike road by 

 the side of the pond ; four of which (being all that ho lias 



