EARLY MAN 



Numerous British coins, both inscribed and uninscribed, particu- 

 larly those of Verica, Commius and Cunobelin, have been discovered at 

 Farley Heath. At Guildford coins of Caratacus, Epaticcus and Verica 

 have been found, and at Kingston one of Tincommius has been discovered. 



Many of the British coins bore devices which had obviously been 

 derived from those on the beautiful coins of Philip II. of Macedon, but 

 in consequence of being repeatedly copied by incompetent artists the 

 original forms of the devices became scarcely recognizable. A coin of 

 Verica found at Reigate in 1888, for example, is impressed with the 

 figure of a vine leaf, a form which, as Sir John Evans has shown, was 

 derived from one of the early varieties of the British Philipus. 1 

 Another coin found in a brickyard at Kew is of great interest from the 

 fact that the device, originally the head of Apollo, has become much 

 altered in the course of repeated copyings and really represents a form 

 about halfway between that of the head of Apollo and that of the vine 

 leaf. 



ANCIENT ROADS IN SURREY 



The difficulty of assigning a particular date or period to a roadway 

 which in the first instance may have been a mere trackway across the 

 country is so great that we cannot be too cautious in dealing with this 

 important subject. Yet it is certain that roadways must have existed in 

 Britain before the Roman occupation, and by general consent the old 

 road known as the Pilgrims' Way which runs along the North Downs 

 has been regarded as a pre-Roman way, and most of those who have 

 written upon the subject agree that it was probably one of the first 

 roads through Surrey at a time when the Weald was an almost impas- 

 sable forest. In several parts of its course all traces of the road have 

 been destroyed, in some places by cultivation of the soil, in other places 

 by neglect and disuse, and in some instances portions of it have been 

 entirely removed in the course of digging chalk from the side of the 

 hill. Yet notwithstanding all this the way may be traced pretty clearly 

 in many places in Surrey and Kent. 



In the western part of the county it is first found near Farnham, 

 whence it extends along the North Downs to the Kentish boundary. 

 Sometimes it is found on the crest of the hills, but perhaps more fre- 

 quently on the southern slope. Between Farnham and Guildford, and 

 for some distance further to the east, there appear to be two separate 

 branches of the road, one of which keeps along the top of the Hog's 

 Back, whilst the other is found on the southern slope of the hills. This 

 lower-level road has been traced to St. Catherine's (where there was 

 probably a ford over the river Wey), to St. Martha's Hill, Albury and 

 Shere, rejoining the upper road near Dorking. The lower road is 

 supposed to have been the way actually used by the mediaeval pilgrims. 

 Eastward of Dorking the road is well seen at White Hill (an eminence 



1 The Coins of the Ancient Britons, Supplement, pp. 441, 510. 



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