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metal, corresponding with that PL xvi., 8, Evans. I have no 
memorandum of the place where it was found, hut it resembles 
those from Suffolk, the country of the Iceni. Another, still more 
impure, is of the type which Mr. Evans refers to the Channel 
Islands. Another, found by Mr. Buclston Bead, has been noted 
by Mr. Wellbeloved with a (?) as British copper, but I do not find 
in Mr. Evans’s work anything corresponding to it. 
No satisfactory explanation has been given of the legends on the 
gold coins; but as Dumnorix and Dumnacus are names of Gallic 
chieftains, it is not improbable that Dumnocoverus may have been 
a chief of the Brigantes. The latest time at which we can suppose 
them to have had an autonomous coinage is the expedition of 
Agricola, who came to Britain a. d. 78, and who made it the 
special object of Iris administration to efface the independence of 
the Britons, and thoroughly amalgamate them with their con¬ 
querors. 
It may be asked, What has been the gain to history from the 
researches into the British coinage ? It is something to have saved 
antiquaries from wandering in the labyrinth of conjectures, in which 
they have formerly lost themselves. No one will in future take the 
neck and leg of the horse, in one of the degenerate types, for the 
golden knife with which the Druids cut the misletoe, or suppose 
that the British coins contain symbols of helioarkite mysteries. 
The names and succession of some of the British princes, the place 
of their dominion, the commencement and termination of their 
coinage, have been fixed with probability. And as it has been 
ascertained that Caesar was wrong in supposing (Bell. Gall., v. 12) 
that the Britons had no coined money, we may be allowed to doubt, „ 
whether he was not also in error in other statements, more deeply 
affecting the character of our predecessors. 
Me. J. E. Walkee, E.C.S., next read a paper “ On a phosphatic 
deposit lately discovered in the Lower Greensand of Bedfordshire.” 
The discovery of a new deposit of phosphatic nodules was made 
about three years since in the Lower Greensand of Bedfordshire, 
in the vicinity of Potton. This bed was formerly quarried for 
mending the roads, until it was found to contain the nodules for 
which it is now extensively worked. A section at a cutting near 
Potton Pailway Station, shows, commencing at the bottom:— 
1, sand of different colours (in some places white); 2, conglomerate 
bed (9 in. to 1 ft. thick); 3, sand of different colours, containing 
