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 ARCHAKOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 357 lialf a mile of the foot of the Herefordshiie-beacou hill. A party of visi- tors were rambling over the hills, and one of them struck his iron-pointed mountain -staff into the turf, just upon the margin of a stone quarry, at the spot described, causing the turf and stones, with an urn containing about 300 Roman brass coins, to fall amongst the rubbish beneath, from whicb they were picked out by various persons, and are now in the possession of Col. Colston, Henry Trant, Esq., and in numerous other hands. All those which I have seen are of Diocletian, ^Nlaximian, or Constant ius, and they are in very perfect condition. The urn, judii-ing by the fragments which I have seen, had become much decayed, and nearly pulverised. I believe this is the first evidence of Roman occupation of the Herefordshire-beacon camp. Some writers have supposed it Roman on accovmt of the central praton'um, but it appears more probable that it was originally British, and afterwards occupied by the Romans, and adapted to suit their own pur- poses. The name Malvern is probably derived from IMoel-y-yarn, signify- ing, in Welsh, the high court, or seat of judgment. Within half a mile from the spot where the coins were found, and at about the same distance from the camp, there is a place at the "Wind's Point,"" which is, or was, known as Burstners' Cross, in the parish of Colwall, near which the re- markable coronet or circlet of gold was found, in 1650: it was set with precious stones, reported to have been sold for £1500. The particulars of this singular discovery are given in my ' Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities of Worcestershire.' I have enclosed impressions from one of the coins, a large brass of Maximian. Obv. laureated head maximi.ynvs NOBiLis c. Rev. a genius, naked, holding the cornucopia and discus. GENIO POPVLI KOMANI, and S. F.^" Saxon Period. We are indebted to INIr. W. Hylton Longstaffe for the following note, accompanied by a sketch from which the engraving is taken. " In the churchyard of Burningliam, between Richmontl and Barnard Castle, is the basement of a cross, and in the centre of the ground a most ^ A silver coin, said to be of Vespasian, district, and in Mr. Allies' Antiquities of was found on the Malvern hills, on the Worcestevshire, p. 6'2, where other notices eastern s^ide of the Worcestershire beacon, of Itoniiin occupation ii those parts of as r.oticed in the Botanical Guide to that England may be found leiailed. VOL. IV. 3 A.