APPENDIX. 
By 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 Eomans 
(" Antiquities/' p. 1), has been abundantly confirmed 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 George the Fourth, 
that in his time Roman coins were occasionally 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 Blackmoor House. He himself, 
and other members of his family, have found more than twenty, 
among the siftings of gravel, dug to repair the turnpike road by 
the side of the pond ; four of which (being all that he has 
