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 THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD No. 13. Obv. TAS. . . Beardless head to the right. Rev. Horse galloping to the right ; within a double circle, the outer one beaded. IE. Found at Springhead, near Southfleet, Kent. The final part of the legend is uncertain. A.B.C., pi. vi. No. 9 and p. 536. No 14. Obv. TAS. in front of a beardless male head to the right ; behind, a kind of branch ; the whole surrounded by a beaded circle. Rev. (VER.) Horseman charging to the right, brandishing a spear (?) ; in front of the horse a star of seven pellets. There is a double exergual line, the upper one plain, the lower beaded. ./ 41 grains. This coin was found at Burwell, near Cambridge. Others have been found at Braughing, Herts, showing the VER ; and at Dorchester, Oxon. A.B.C., pi. xxi. No. 4. No. 15. Obv. TAS. (?) Bare, beardless head to right ; behind, a fillet (?) and a pellet ; the whole within a beaded circle. Rev. V beneath a horseman to the right, wielding a long staff or spear. /E 31 grains. Found at Wenden near Saffron Walden, Essex. A.B.C., pi. viii. No. 3 and p. 539. No. 1 6. Obv. Rude head in profile to right, with flowing beard. Rev. VIR. or VER. Hippocampus to left, on a double exergual line. M 31, 32 grains. Found near Biggleswade. Others found on the site of Verulam and at Braughing, Herts, as well as at Arlesey, Beds. A.B.C., pi. vii. No. 9 and p. 538. No. 17. Obv. V (?) behind a bare, bearded head to the right. Rev. TAS. beneath a hippocampus to the left ; above, a ring-ornament and trefoil. & 37i> 3 8 grains- Place of finding unknown. A. B.C., pi. vii. No. II. No. 1 8. Obv. VERL. in front of a bearded head to the right. Rev. VIIR. below a hippocampus to the left ; in front, a star of pellets ; above, a decorated ring-ornament between two trefoils. JE 40! grains. Place of finding unknown. A coin of the same type found on the shore at Ostend, 1 Belgium. A.B.C., pi. xxi. No 7. No. 19. Obv. Bearded head to right as on No 16. Rev. VER. beneath hippocampus to the left ; in front, a star of pellets ; above, a ring-ornament between two trefoils. JE 37! and 44! grains. Two coins of this type were found at Braughing, Herts ; and another reading VIR. near Arlesey, Beds. There may have been a legend on the obverse. A.B.C., pi. xxi. No. 6. No. 20. Obv. VER ? Bare head to the right ; the whole within a triple circle ; that in the centre beaded. Rev. A boar running to the right ; above, an annulet ; at its feet, in front, a cluster of pellets. JE 19 grains. Found at Chesterford, Essex ; another near Biggleswade, Beds. A. B.C., pi. viii. No. 4, xiii. No. 9. No. 2 1. Obv. RVFI (?) in front of a bearded head to the right ; the whole within a beaded circle. Rev. VIR. or VER. beneath a horseman cantering to the right ; in front of his head a pellet ; the whole within a beaded circle. IE 21$ grains. Found at Braughing, Herts ; others found at Creslow near Aylesbury, Bucks ; Dorchester, Oxon ; Upper Stondon, Beds ; and Harlow, Essex. A.B.C., pi. xxi. No. 12, vii. Nos. 12, 13. 1 Proc. Num. Sof., October 15, 1896. 249