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laid down near this spot, passing from Market Weighton, 
over the Wolds, to Malton, and many antiquities have been 
found at Warter, so that it has been suggested, among other 
places, as the site of the Delgovitia of Antoninus' Itinerary. 
The number of the coins was very considerable ; between 
1,200 and 1,300 of them have been presented by Lord 
Londesborough to the York Museum, and many have passed 
into other hands. They are all of the size called by numis- 
matists, third brass; they begin with the reign of Valerian, and 
include the reign of his son Gallienus, and his consort, Salo- 
nina ; the Tyrants, Postumus, the Tetrici and Marius ; the 
Emperor Claudius Gothicus and his brother Quintillus ; and 
Aurelian, Tacitus, and Probus. The time of the deposit, 
therefore, is probably that of Probus, who reigned from a.d. 
276 to 282. Like many hoards it was contained in an earthen 
vessel, a mode of preservation which, from the language of 
the Apostle Paul — " We have this treasure in earthen 
vessels" (2 Cor. iv. 7,) appears not only to have been used for 
protection against the damp of the earth, as in Jeremiah xxxii. 
14, but as an ordinary custom. When Lord Londesborough 
presented that part of the hoard which came into his hands 
to the museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, he 
requested that any duplicates might be sent to the Literary 
and Philosophical Society of Leeds. This has accordingly 
been done by the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, the curator of 
antiquities, and 262 coins have been sent. It appears due to 
the noble donor that they should not be consigned to the 
society's cabinet without some more detailed notice. It is true 
that none of them are rare ; they are of minute size, of coarse 
workmanship and debased metal ; but these circumstances, 
which diminish their value in the eyes of the collector, do not 
prevent their being of historical interest. They are an index 
of the times in which they were produced — times of general 
calamity, of public and private poverty. All such remains 
