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A COARSE earthenware jar containing upwards of seven thousand “third brass” Roman coins was recently unearthed by the ploughshare on the farm of Mrs. Wheatley, Stanley, near Wakefield. In very early times the bed of the river Calder, which has a remarkable sweep at this point, was deepened by the ancient Britons or Romans, and an embankment made with the sand; in this the jar, with its contents, was deposited 1500 years ago.
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DODGSON, A. Discovery of Seven Thousand Roman Coins . Nature 74, 20 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074020b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/074020b0