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were sharp and unworn, from which it might be inferred they 
had not been in extensive circulation. 
In 1827, a workman digging for gravel in the immediate 
vicinity of the old Roman road at Lightcliffe, near Halifax, 
came upon a fictile vase, apparently of Roman manufacture, 
which contained a number of coins, principally Roman 
denarii and family coins, but among them were four ancient 
British coins ; three were of the well-known Yorkshire type, 
with the inscription, . volisios . in two lines across a wreath on 
the obverse, and the rudely-formed horse and dvmno-co-veros 
on the reverse- (See Plate Nos. 6, 7.) The fourth was a new 
variety, but evidently a direct descendant of the Macedonian 
Philippus, though only the wreath and the horse survive to 
prove its relationship, and the wheel-like form of the tail of 
the horse is all that is left to remind us of the chariot which 
was attached to the more artistic animals on the original. The 
imperial coins above alluded to included one of Caligula and 
Agrippina L, struck probably about a.d. 40. The hoard, 
therefore, could not have been deposited until after that 
period, and as we know that in the western parts of Britain 
the native coinage continued in circulation until after the 
accession of Claudius, it is very probable that the same 
occurred in the northern parts also ; and as I am not aware 
of any Roman coins found with British of a later date 
than a.d. 40, it is very probable the 'coinage of the Brigantes 
ceased before a.d. 50. The date of its introduction, as I have 
already stated, cannot be determined; but from the similarity 
of the type occurring among them, it is evident the period 
over which they extended could not be long. 
As far as I know, the ancient British coins are confined to 
the south-eastern portion of the territory of the Brigantes, 
and have not yet been found in Lancashire or the counties 
north of Yorkshire, and it is very probable that some of the 
uninscribed coins are the connecting links between the proper 
