YORK SPECIMENS. 



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country, but particularly the Roman, have been picked 

 up during a number of years. The coins are chiefly 

 brasses, some of them very old. Only one gold coin has 

 been discovered— that of the Roman Emperor Valentine. 

 The three specimens next exhibited (figs, 85, 86, 87) 



fig. 85 



fig. 86 



fig. 87 



are from the York Museum, and were found a few years 

 ago under a cobble-road, near the bridge which crosses 

 the foss of that city, at a depth of eight feet below the 

 surface, A number of these shoes were discovered in 

 this situation ; and it has been conjectured by some one 



