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the only known traces of the Eomans about " Tamar Mouth " 

 consisted of the casual occurrence of a few coins, and of a few 

 fragments of pottery. We learnt far more in 1888 than the 

 most sanguine local antiquary ever dreamt of. 



The coins have been found in several localities, but chiefly 

 by the ancient sea margin. The site of the Millbay Railway 

 Terminus yielded several, and others have been found on the 

 reclaimed shores of what was once an inner reach of Millbay, 

 known as Surpool. Others have been found on the Hoe, and at 

 Cattedown ; and several at and near the isthmus which joins 

 Mount Batten to the mainland of Staddon Heights. Prince 

 Eock, further up the Laira, yielded many, and some have been 

 found at Plympton. 



Then on the higher ground away from the water we have 

 Eoman coins occurring at the Devonport Park ; Mannamead — 

 where five were dug up in one spadeful of earth ; possibly on 

 the line of an old trackway, at Torr, in the same neighbourhood ; 

 and — the most recent of all — in loose earth in a space enclosed 

 by the foundation waUs of a house in Prospect Street, Plymouth. 



I give as complete a list as is in my power of the particulars 

 of these various finds, the star indicating those that are in my 

 own possession. The only coins of the series that had any asso- 

 ciation with other antiquities were those from the Batten district. 

 At Mount Batten itself British gold and silver coins have been 

 found ; on the Batten isthmus there are remains of a kitchen 

 midden; and on the slopes of Staddon, immediately above, a 

 Keltic cemetery was discovered when Fort Stamford was built. 

 Though such association existed, there was however no con- 

 nection between the Eoman relics and the other antiquities — 

 nothing was indicated beyond successive occupation or presence. 



Alexander Severus Mount Batten. 



,, Cattedown. 



Antoninus Pius Cattedown. 



,, Mount Batten. 



*Carus (second brass) Millbay. 



0. Diademed head to right imp carvs p f avg 



B, Pigure of Hope spes pvblica. 



