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 country, but particularly the Roman, have been picked up during a number of years. The coins are chiefly brasses, some of them very old. Only one gold coin has been discovered — that of the Roman Emperor Valentine. The three, specimens next exhibited (figs. 85, 86, 87) fig. 85

are from the York Museum, and were found a few years ago under a cobble-road, near the bridge which crosses the foss of that city, at a depth of eight feet below the surface. A number of these shoes were discovered in this situation ; and it has been conjectured by some one