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APPENDIX. 



ON THE 



ROMAN-BRITISH ANTIQUITIES 



OP 



SELBOUNE. 



Hv LORD SELBORNE. 



The conclusion drawn by White, from the discovery of Roman 

 coins during the first half of the last century in the bed of 

 Woolmer Pond, that Selborne was not unknown to the 

 Romans (" Antiquities," Letter I.), has been abundantly con- 

 firmed by other and more recent discoveries. 



About the year 1774 (as appears by a letter, dated in August 

 1777, from Mr. Sewell, then residing at Headley, to Mr. 

 White, for the communication of which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Professor Bell) a large pot of coins or medals 

 was also found in Woolmer Pond, from which Mr. Sewell 

 obtained a complete series of all the Roman Emperors, from 

 Claudius the First to Commodus (both inclusive), and the two 

 Faustinas, and Crispina, the wife of Commodus, extending 

 over nearly 150 years, from a.d. 43 to a.d. 194. There 

 were none, he says, later than Commodus. And I learn from 

 Mr. Prettejohn (now residing at Yanston,in Devonshire), who 

 lived for more than thirty years near Woolmer Pond, and was 

 " foreman " of the Forest for a period including the reign of 

 Greoro-e the Fourth, that in his time Roman coins were occa- 

 sionally found in the gravel and sand of Woolmer Pond, on 

 the Blackmoor side, and sometimes also in the old roads and 

 paths in the open Forest, and within the present grounds of 



