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APPENDIX ON THE ROMAN-BRITISH 
1869-1870 ; and in digging out tins reservoir some further 
fragments of Roman pottery were found. 
In the spring of 1870, in the garden of a cottage on the 
western side of the road ascending from Eveley corner to 
Hogmoor, at the spot marked D on the map, a number of 
bronze weapons, or parts of weapons (Roman or Roman-British), 
were found under peat, free from rust or oxidation. They con- 
sisted of twent3^-seven fragments of sword blades, some of 
which, when put together, made complete swords ; two frag- 
ments of sword sheaths; one grooved socket for connecting a 
spear-head with the shaft ; eighteen large, and six small, spear- 
heads ; two S]3ear points ; three rings ; and two fragments of 
uncertain use. Most of the sword handles had bronze nails, 
evidently intended to fasten the iron part of the handle to some 
covering material, remaining perfect in their holes ; and in the 
cavities of several of the spear-heads the wooden points, which 
had been inserted to fix them in sockets connecting the head 
Avith the shaft of the spear, were still remaining. Some of the 
edges of these weapons were hacked and notched, in a manner 
which could hardly have resulted from use ; and of the sword 
blades, some had been forcibly bent, before being broken ; 
proving that those who buried them had first taken pains to 
render them useless. Some of these fragments of swords are 
figured in Plate VI. (Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, with the section) ; two of 
the larger, and one of the smaller spear-heads, are figured (Nos. 1 
and 2) in Plate V. ; the grooved socket is figured (No. 4) in the 
same Plate, with a section ; the bronze rings are figured (No. 3) 
in Plate IV. ; and one of the fragments of uncertain use is 
figured (No. 5) in Plate VI. 
In the same cottage garden, there have also since been found, 
in a fragment of a small earthenware pot, nearly 100 copper 
coins, much defaced, chiefiy of the elder Tetricus, but including 
a few of his son, and of Gallienus and Victorinus. 
The next discovery was that of two large earthenware vases 
(Plates VIT. and VIIL), which, when perfect, must have contained 
considei^ably more than 30,000 Roman and Roman-British coins, 
the number of those which still remained in them when found, or 
which were recovered by myself from the surrounding earth, 
