In an old book I have just been reading dated 1854 it referers to a hoard of
coins being found in Horseheath some years earlier.
It is particularly interesting to note that it was found quite accidentaly
by a waggon being struck in a rut.
The story goes as follows ' A curious discovery of coins, hitherto
unrecorded, took place about thirteen years ago at Horseheath, Near Linton,
Cambridgeshire.
A waggon in its course over the heath getting into a deep rut, was obliged
to be forced out by the aid of the driver, who saw adhering to the wheels
what he considered to
be abrass button. It was a Roman Coin; and when the wheels were moved he
saw another two, and on going back to the rut found that he had crushed a
jar in which there were about two hundred more. He sold them in Cambridge;
and from examination of a few of the number, they seem to have consisted of
the later Roman series; coins of Hadrian, Severus, Nerva Macrinus, and a
few legionary being among them'.
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