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of a horse, and on tlie other an equally rude attempt at the 
Macedonian Phillippus. The type, however, is not exactly 
that of the usual British coins found in Yorkshire, but 
rather of those which Mr. Evans thinks may belong to the 
South Midland district (Plate A, fig. 13), or some tribe with 
whom the Brigantes might have come in contact ; and this 
solitary example may not have been the only coiu which has 
occurred, but the only one preserved, as such treasure-troves 
are too frequently sold to prevent a claim being made. 
During the same year, also, a massive gold armilla, whose 
value as old gold was £18, was found within a few miles of 
Leeds, and offered to me for sale ; but, for the reason alluded 
to, the exact locality was withheld, unless I became the 
purchaser ; and, lastly, in the autumn of 1868 an example of 
gold ring-money or rude ear-ring, weighing 336 grains, was 
found in a ploughed field at Cawood, which also passed into 
the hands of a goldsmith at Leeds. "We must therefore 
conjecture, I presume, in each case, these sites to have been 
British stations, or at least local occupations, or that the first 
had been dropped by some soldier of the Roman legions in 
crossing by the fifth or eighth Iter, both of which passed 
near Pontefract, and who had acquired it by conquest from 
the Britons with whom he had come into contact in traversing 
the county. 
Whether, however, the neighbourhood of Adel has been 
the site of the particular occurrences to which I have alluded 
or not, it is very evident from the limited space in which the 
flint implements and flakes have hitherto been found, they 
must have been manufactured on the spot by the Britons to 
meet some special necessity ; and should the soil at Weet- 
wood and • Meanwood eventually be found to contain similar 
articles of this early period, it will afford additional evi- 
dence that the conjecture I have adduced for their 
occurrence is not beyond the bounds of probability. 
