204 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, 1918.

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1 ROMAN COINS FOUND III.

2 204 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, recorded;

3 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 205 says has been amply confirmed by the finding of hoards of denarii in the very regions of which he is speaking. And the practice of Central Europe

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13 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 215 condition. At the same time Mrs Callander of Cramond House kindly allowed

14 216 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, other Scottish site. It will have been observed that the list given above took

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23 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND "When Cadcler pond

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26 228 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, moment's consideration will show that the assemblage of coins described could never have accumulated, as a hoard, but can only represent a collection, for no hoard of 150 could possibly contain examples

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28 230 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, history of the fort or forts. That there was a Roman garrison at Camelon during the Antonine period is clear. The evidence for an Agricolan occupation is not so ohvious. But nevertheless -it is there. Although there are no consular denarii, the relatively high proportion

29 KOMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 231 "I have given

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34 236 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, Findlay possesses

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37 WELLFIELD (Fifeshire). In ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 239

38 240 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, in O.S.A., viii. (1793), tells (p. 34) that he "has seen a medal of the Empress Faustina, that was taken from the heart of a peat found

39 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 241 Valentinian which Sir John Clerk mentions in a letter to Roger Gale must

40 242 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, road between Netherby

41 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 243 URR (Kirkcudbrightshire). O.S.A., xi. (1794) p. 70, notices a find which, if

42 244 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, direction

43 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 245 TOBBANCE (Stirlingshire). About ten years ago Mr John Bartholomew of Glenorchard showed

44 246 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, ATJCHTERABDEB (Perthshire). In

45 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 247 LAURENCEKIRK (Kincardineshire). According

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48 250 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, logical Society a ' second brass' coin of Nemausus, with the heads of Augustus

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50 252 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, It may be confidently assumed that by far the larger proportion of the finds indicated in the three last columns of the Table represent, in the case of each of our groups, coins that had fallen from native rather than from Roman hands. In other words, from the second century onwards, if not indeed from the first, there must have been a considerable amount of intercourse, which it would perhaps be too much to call friendly, but which was, at all events, neighbourly enough to permit of the infiltration of goods

51 KOMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 253 would naturally employ in advancing on Cramond from behind the shelter of Hadrian's Wall. The more obvious of these was what had been in the first and second centuries the great.trunk-road by the Cheviots

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53 Attention ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 255

54 256 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, This

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56 258 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, In 1833 this was reproduced in N.S.A., ii. ("Berwickshire") p. 5, as follows: "Spanish, Scottish,

57 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 259 "They had been deposited in an earthen urn, which the plough broke,

58 260 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, formation of the Caledonian Railway, in the lower part of a cairn of stones. They were lying about

59 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 261 various persons, confusion in regard to dates need cause no surprise. Apparently

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61 ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 263 (4), Nerva (1), Trajan (15), Hadrian (18), Faustina Junior (1). According to the Papers of the Regality Club (iii. p. 38), 10 of them were presented

62 264 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, circumference of a sixpenny piece, but much thicker. The dies and inscriptions

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64 266 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY* MAY 13, The translation is not as accurate as it might be. In particular,

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66 268 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, found. Those in the centre were much decayed, those on the outside

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71 Castledykes: "Coins ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND. 273

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73 years that followed. ROMAN COINS FOUND IN SCOTLAND.

74 276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAY 13, what are now the counties of Fife, Forfar, Kincardine, and Aberdeen.