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surrounding earth, having been counted at 29,773. They were 

 buried at the spot marked E on the map, rather less than half- 

 way between Blackmoor House and Woolmer Pond, where they 

 were found, covered by about two feet of soil, on the 30th of 

 October, 1873, by some workmen employed in trenching ground 

 1'or a plantation. The upper parts of both vases were much 

 broken, probably by agricultural operations. The coins in them 

 were closely caked together (see Plate V., showing part of those 

 in one vase, after many had been removed), and completely filled 

 what was left of the vases. They were all coated, more or less, 

 with green oxide of copper. Some fragments of the broken parts 

 of the vases, and a small piece of the bottom of a Eoman mortar, 

 were soon afterwards found near the same spot; but nothing 

 else was there discovered. 



The coins, on examination, were found to be chiefly bronze, 

 varying from a size rather larger than a shilling to less than 

 sixpence, those of the same size being often of very unequal 

 thickness and weight. There were also a large number, princi- 

 pally denarii, of or plated with the base metal called by 

 numismatologists " billon." Of the whole quantity, about one- 

 third only have been cleaned ; 24,985, having been sorted, prove 

 to be as follows : 



Gordian the younger (emperor A. D. 238 244) 



Philip the Arabian (emperor A. D 244 249) 1 



Otacilia (wife of Philip) 1 



Volusian (son and associate of Callus, who was emperor A. D. ( , 



252254) i 



Valerian (emperor A.D. 254260) 25 



Gallienus (son and associate of Valerian, and sole emperor from I , ^g 



A.D. 260 to 268 i 



Salonina (wife of Gallienus) 265 



Saloninus (son of Gallienus) *> 



Postumus (Tyrant in Britain and Gaul, A.D. 258 265) 294 



Liclianus (ditto, A.D. 265) . . . . 8 



Marius (ditto, A.D. 265) 56 



Victorinus (ditto, A.D 265268) 4 ,305' 



Tetricus Augustus (ditto, A.D. 268 271) J 11254" 



Tetricus Csesar (son of Tetrieus Augustus) ' 



1 There may be some of Postumus (uncleaned) among those of Victorinu.s. 



2 The uncleaned coins of the younger Tetricus have not been separated from 

 those of the elder. Of those which have been cleaned, the coins of the elder nve 

 to those of the younger in the proportion of 27 to 11. 



