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 A HISTORY OF SURREY of the antiquities which have been referred to the bronze age really belong to this, just as it is also probable that some of the highly wrought arrowheads, etc., and such implements as stone hammers may be reason- ably referred to the age of bronze. COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS Gold and silver coins of the prehistoric period have been found in several different places in Surrey, particularly at Farley Heath, Albury, BRITISH COINS FOUND IN SURREY. where in 1848 a shepherd boy discovered a hoard of upwards of twenty gold pieces, including some examples of a type which had hitherto been unknown, and which Sir John Evans 1 has figured and described in his BRITISH COINS FOUND IN SURREY. monumental work on this branch of British numismatics. The coins, which were uninscribed, were found on a newly mended road, where it is supposed a hollow flint in which they had been concealed had been broken by the wheel of a passing vehicle. 1 The Coins of the Ancient Britons, p. 84; and pi. D, figs. 6, 7, 8, Numismatic Chronicle, xi. 91. 248