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 A HISTORY OF HEREFORDSHIRE special interest.''^ The only other hoard, strictly so called, was found in 1855, in the same part of the county, at Coombe Wood near Aston Ingham." Here the number is reckoned at 2,000, all small copper coins, covering the period a.d. 235-340, from Maximinus Daza to Constantine II ; but it has not been recorded in great detail. Many coins have been found at one time or another on the sites of Magna (Kenchestcr) and Ariconium (Weston under Penyard), Of those found at Kenchester about a hundred and fifty are now^ in the museum at Hereford ; they range from Domitian to Gratian (a.d. 81-383), but are nearly all of copper. Several of the later ones were minted in London. Roach Smith mentions some interesting coins of the reign of Carausius (a.d. 287—93).^* In 1870 a large series of coins, numbering about one hundred, from the site of Ariconium, was exhibited to the Archaeological Association at Here- ford. Besides a silver consular coin of the Cordia family they range from Claudius to Magnentius (a.d. 41—353), most of the intervening emperors being represented.^^ The only other finds of interest recorded are a coin of Lucilla (a.d. 161), found in Capler Camp near Fownhope ; and a series from Blackwardine near Leominster, ranging from Augustus and Agrippina II to Honorius (a.d. 49-433).''* Roads The Roman roads in Herefordshire present no problems of special interest or complexity. Two roads passing through the county occur in the Antonine Itinerary, about one of which there is little uncertainty, but of the other nearly all traces have disappeared. Besides these there are several roads with more or less claim to antiquity, which will be considered in due course. I. The Itinerary road from Wroxeter (Viroconium) to Caerleon (Isca Silurum) ran, as already noted, due north and south from one end of the county to the other. It is known in different parts of its course as [a) East Street ; {b) Watling Street ; and {c) Stoney Street. Its course, with that of two small branches from it, can still be traced with considerable precision, though in many parts it is no more than a mere track. The distances of the stations thereon are given in the Itinerary as follows (Iter xii) : — M.P.M. M.P.M. Iscae (Caerleon) Magnis (Kenchester) . . xxii Burrio (Usk) viiii Bravonio (Leintwardine) . xxiiii Gobannio (Abergavenny) . . .xii Viroconio (Wroxeter) . . xxvii Tracing the course of the road in the reverse direction, from north to south, we find it clearly marked in a southerly direction through South Shropshire,^ From Clungunford it enters the county as an ordinary by-road near Marlow, after which its traces are lost for about a mile, until just north of Leintwardine. After forming the main street of that village, the road, '* Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 286. Further details of the Kenchester coins are given by Dr. H. C. Moore in the Woolhope Club Trans. 1896, pp. 108, 151, and Appendix, p. I, IF. See also p. 182, below. '* Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxvii, 210. '° See Topog. Index, s.v. Stoke Prior. ' V.C.H. Shrops. i, 267. 172
 * ' For further details see Topog. Index, s.v. Walford. ^' See Topog. Index, s.v. Aston Ingham.