8 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



Gold have been dispersedly found ; and no small 

 number of Silver-pieces near Norwich, with a rude 

 Head upon the Obverse, and an ill-formed Horse on 

 the Reverse, with Inscriptions ic, duro, t., whether 

 implying Iceiii, Durotidges, Tascia, or Trinobantes, we 

 leave to higher conjecture." Gale, in his '* Itinerary 

 of Antonious " (4to ed. 1709, p. 109), seems to refer to 

 the same coins, and is, indeed, probably quoting Sir 

 Thomas Browne. White, in the description of his 

 Plate of British Coins (1773), also refers a coin of 

 the type Plate xv.. No. 3, to the Iceni ; and Akerman, 

 " Num. Chron.," vol. i., p. 83, expresses his opinion 

 that this class of coins is peculiar to Cambridgeshire. 

 To Mr. Beale Poste, however, belongs the credit of 

 having been the first to engrave a series of these coins 

 in one plate, as coins of the Iceni (" Archaeological 

 Associations Journal," vol. iv., p. 107), and this attribu- 

 tion was corroborated by Mr. C. Roach Smith, in 

 " Num. Chron.," vol. xv., p. 98. 



Commercial intercourse between the Phoenician 

 inhabitants of Tyre and the ancient Britons is sup- 

 posed to have occurred some time between b.c. 1200 

 and B.C. 600, and chiefly consisted of minerals, cattle, 

 and the skins of wild animals. Later on we know 

 beyond doubt British horses — 



" Practised alike to stop, to turn, to chase, 

 To dare the shock, or urge the rapid race " — 



were so beautiful, so admirably trained, and so much 

 admired, that they were exported to Rome in con- 

 siderable numbers for the chariot and for mounting 

 cavalry. And after the Roman conquest of Britain 



