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that Mr. Stair is now pofifefled of fcvcral hundred, 
which have been all coile&ed from this Roman fet- 
tlement ; among which are the emperours Valentinian 
and Arcadius in gold 5 with mod of the imperial 
coins from Augujlus to that time, either in fiver 
or brafs ; many of which are exceedingly well pre- 
fer ved. 
I shall only beg leave to fubjoin here a breif 
account of an antient date in Arabian figures, 
which yet remains at Walling near Aldermarjlon 
in Berkjhire. It is imprefled in releivo upon a brick, 
near the top of a large and high chimney, on the 
outfide of a farmhoufe belonging to William JVolla- 
fcot efquire of Woolhampton in that neighbourhood. 
This date had always hitherto been read 1182, the 
two firft figures, as they are feen from the ground, 
having both the appearance of a one ; with this dif- 
ference only, that the fecond feems pretty much 
thicker than the firft. And this led me upon view- 
ing it in that fituation to fufped it might be a three, 
like that in the Cambridge date, publifhed in the 
Rhilofophical Tranf actions , N. 474. And accord - 
ingly having by the means of a long ladder an op- 
portunity of going up to it, I found upon a near 
infpedion, that it was really fo, as I had appre- 
hended. For the fmall curves in the fccond figure 
being filled up with mofs gave it the appearance of 
a broad and ftrait line, when feen at a conliderable 
diftance. I took an exad draught of the whole, by 
firft imprefling a paper upon the brick, with the 
feverai 
