AUG. GERM. COS. XIII. CENS. PER.P.P., and on the reverse a female figure with FORTUNAE AUGUSTI. At Clatterford, in the vicinity of Carisbrooke Castle, Roman coins have been found at various times. One, in second brass, in my possession, obtained two years ago by Mr. H. D. Cole, Jun., in a field opposite Bellevue, which was being converted into a garden, is of Faustina the elder, wife of Antoninus Pius. It has on the obverse her head, with the inscription FAUSTINA AVG; and on the reverse AETERNITAS, with a figure standing. I have also a coin, in second brass, of her daughter Faustina the younger, the wife of Marcus Aurelius, likewise found at Clatterford, presented to me by Mr. Alfred Mew. On the obverse is a fine head of Faustina, with the inscription FAUSTINA AUG. PII. AUG. FIL. On the reverse, an image of Faustina, bearing the hasta pura, surmounted with a ball, with the words LAETITIAE PUBLICAE. The same gentleman also put into my possession a Posthumus (small brass) from the same place. The inscription round the head is imperfect. On the reverse are the letters PAX AUG., and a figure of Peace, with the hasta pura (the pointless spear) reversed, beautifully indicative of the idea of peace. I may also add that four coins (small brass) were given me lately by Mr. B. Bull, of Ventnor, which his workmen found in getting out the stone to build Gouldwell House in that place. One is of Claudius Gothicus; the other three, probably of the same period, are illegible. The discovery of the above coins, in conjunction with the ampulla of 600 coins found in 1833 at Shanklin, and of those, in quantity nearly a gallon measure, in Barton wood, about the same time, together with the collection in the Museum at Newport,1 and various other coins, in the possession of other gentlemen, illustrate the position that the Romans were more extensively in the Isle of Wight than has been usually supposed by historians. Suffering as they did from the inclemency of the English climate-often brought by it to a premature grave and lovers of the marine scenery of their own land, is it not probable that they sometimes sought these lovely 1 In this museum (of which the writer has been more than twenty years a curator) are arranged and described nearly one hundred and fifty Roman and Greek coins found in the Isle of Wight, which are well deserving the attention of the numismatist. VOL, VIII. 43 and sheltered spots for the purpose of health and recreation? The beautiful Roman armilla, found with a skeleton in 1845 at Ventnor, figured in Akerman's Archæological Index, plate 13, fig. 25, the urns found in barrows on Rew Down, and elsewhere, at the back of the Isle of Wight, by Archdeacon Hill, which, in his opinion, were " decidedly Roman", with the "sepulchral urns inclosing the remains of incinerated bones", recently discovered in preparing the ERRATA IN VOL. VIII. Page 331, line 21, for "Vendle" read Pendle. 332, 19, for "features" read pastures. 335, 357, 26, after "carrying" insert away. 11, for " ornament and ingot" read ornaments and ingots. 9, for "eight" read eighty. 15, for "there" read these. 35, for "conjecture" read importance. 14, for "the" read this; and erase "from a hauberk (re presented in the annexed woodcut)". 36, add "The above woodcut exhibits the rings of their full 26, for "gollen" read gotten. 10, for "Ha" read Hae. 12, for "na" read nae. 40, for "es" read ey. 18, for "crau" read craw. And, in order that my statements may receive due credence, I would premise that within two years after the most important of the discoveries, I was the curate of the ecclesiastical district in which the township of Cuerdale is situated, and that my accounts were received from the discoverers themselves, several of whom are now deceased. 1 Dr. Martin's Undercliff, p. 359. 2 Peele's Fair Island, p. 173, 1. 4. The township of Cuerdale is the smallest in Lancashire, containing not more than 500 acres, and possessing, according to the census of 1841, a population of 106 individuals. Though surrounded by the townships of Waltonle-Dale, Preston, and Samlesbury, it is, after this announcement, almost needless to remark, that, with the exception of a few handloom weavers in some of the cottages, it is of a purely agricultural character. The track which I wish to bring under your notice forms its northern boundary, and consists of about one hundred and fifty acres, of what a botanist would denominate an ovate form, bounded on the north by the river Ribble, and on the south by a line of high ground covered with wood from base to summit, along the top of which runs the old highway from Preston to Whalley. Standing in this highway, especially, perhaps, at the gate of the parsonage garden of Walton-le-Dale, the church of which is just behind, as lovely a view opens to the spectator as one could wish to look upon. The eye passes over the track which we are about to investigate, bounded by the winding river, and continuing onwards towards Ribchester, Whalley, Clitheroe, and Vendle, luxuriates in a scene which no one who has once beheld it can ever forget. From the base of this rising ground to the Ribble, the ground is very nearly level; maintaining a height of from nine to twelve or fifteen feet above the bed of the river, which is here shallow and easily fordable. The track is divided by some hedges of no great apparent age into several fields, the most of which are laid down in permanent pasturage. Within a circle of four hundred yards in these pastures most interesting discoveries have from time to time been made, one of which especially, I hardly need hint, has tended to carry the name of this otherwise little-known locality over all the world, and to invest it with an interest to which few other places in the north of England can lay claim. I shall proceed to submit to you the various discoveries in their chronological sequence; and I flatter myself that you will agree with me that very few spots, lying wide, as far as we know, of any ancient road or town, have furnished a more curious series than that which I have now the pleasure of laying before you. The oldest remain was discovered first. In December 1838, some labourers employed in deepening a ditch turned up, between three and four feet from the surface, the British celt (Plate 37, fig. 1.) I do not inform, but I may remind some of my auditors, that the Sistuntii are said to have been the earliest possessors of Lancashire of whom we know anything: one of whose fortresses occupied the site of Castlefield, near Manchester. This part of the county fell afterwards into the hands of the Brigantes, the ancient inhabitants of Durham, York, and Westmoreland. To which of these tribes we may attribute the production of this implement, it is not, I believe, possible to determine. Passing for a moment over the date of the most important discovery, I come to the month of November, 1840, when the Roman spearhead (fig. 2) was found about four feet beneath the surface, and a little more than three yards from the celt. Here we have a specimen of the workmanship of another age and another people. Speedily following the Roman came the Saxon rule in England; and it is of this period that these features have furnished the most abundant memorials. The fifteenth of May, 1840, is a day ever to be remembered in the annals of Cuerdale. The river Ribble had overflowed its banks, and had washed away the ground behind a wall, built some years before, to repress its inundations. In order to fill up the hollow caused in the manner just stated, several labourers were employed in digging and carrying earth to the depth of two or three feet, from a spot about forty yards from the river's brink. It was evening, and they were on the point of leaving their labour, when the attention of one of them, by name Thomas Marsden, since deceased, was attracted by what, as he described it to me, seemed to be small oyster-shells: they were round, flat, greyish-white objects, very thin, lying in a heap, and exceedingly numerous. He took up a piece, and scraped it, to ascertain its nature. On finding that it was a piece of silver money, and communicating his discovery to his fellow-workmen, a general scramble took place, to which, however, a period was speedily put by the arrival of the farmer, Mr. Jonathan Richardson, who tenanted the hall, distant but a few hundred yards from the scene of this extraordinary occurrence. He instantly had the whole mass, consisting of ingots of various sizes, several armlets |