A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of the antiquities which have been referred to the bronze age really 

 belong to this, just as it is also probable that some of the highly wrought 

 arrowheads, etc., and such implements as stone hammers may be reason- 

 ably referred to the age of bronze. 



COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS 



Gold and silver coins of the prehistoric period have been found in 

 several different places in Surrey, particularly at Farley Heath, Albury, 



BRITISH COINS FOUND IN SURREY. 



where in 1848 a shepherd boy discovered a hoard of upwards of twenty 

 gold pieces, including some examples of a type which had hitherto been 

 unknown, and which Sir John Evans 1 has figured and described in his 



BRITISH COINS FOUND IN SURREY. 



monumental work on this branch of British numismatics. The coins, 

 which were uninscribed, were found on a newly mended road, where 

 it is supposed a hollow flint in which they had been concealed had 

 been broken by the wheel of a passing vehicle. 



1 The Coins of the Ancient Britons, p. 84; and pi. D, figs. 6, 7, 8, Numismatic Chronicle, xi. 91. 



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