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A HISTORY OF HEREFORDSHIRE On the upper surface of the stone are the letters (reversed) senior ; on the lower, SEN. The name of the oculist Ariovistus does not occur elsewhere ; it is thought to be of German origin. Nardinum and chloron are kinds of ' ointment or salve, the former spikenard, the latter of a pale greenish-yellow colour; anicetum appears to be merely a kind of 'puff' (Gk. dvi»ojTov=' in- vincible ' or ' incomparable ' ) . For the last word in (4) calliblepharium was suggested by Grotefend, but it is doubtful if this can be accepted." When the site was first cultivated, a large number of Roman remains were turned up by the plough. Some of these have already been noted, and it is stated that in 1863 urns, pottery, and coins found here were exhibited at Kington by Mr. Williams of Rhayader.*^ Mr. Hardwick formed a collec- tion of coins and other objects, most of which are now in the Hereford Museum, to which other benefactions have been made by Mr. R. M. Whiting of Credenhill, Mr. W. Pilley, Mr. W. Bulmer, Mrs. Maybery, and Mrs. Cooper Key. Mr. Hardwick gave seventy-one coins, and Mr. Whiting forty-three.** Mr. Hardwick's coins were mostly small ones of copper, and included specimens of Carausius (287-93), AUectus (294-6), and Constantine the Great (306—37), also four silver coins of Domitian, Nerva, and Trajan.*' They cover the period from Domitian (81) to Gratian (383), and the mints represented are London, Lyons, Treves, Aries, Siscia, and Constantinople. Mr. Whiting's coins date from Domitian (81) to Valens (378) ; Mr. Bulmer's from Diocletian to Constantius XL Mr. Pilley gave six silver coins, a denarius of C. Vibius Pansa, two of Trajan, and one each of Augustus, Antoninus Pius, and Philip (a.d. 244). Roach Smith describes some interesting coins of Carausius found some time before 1850 : one with temporvm f[elicitas], another a rare type, with Hercules on reverse holding olive branch and club, inscribed hercvli pacifero.^" In the Johnson collection at Eigne, Hereford, were coins of AUectus, Constantine, Gallienus, Maximian, Postumus, Vic- torinus, and Helena." A coin of Constantine II minted in London in 320 " was found recently at the post office, 4 ft. below the surface, together with a quern and a mortar. Other remains include a bronze key found about 1780; "and sundry small bronze objects : a horse's head, figures of a lion, stag, mouse, and cock, and a small hatchet, probably intended for toys or ornaments (Fig. 7)." In " Corp. Inter. Lat. vii, 1320 ; xiii, pt. 3, p. 595, no. 195 ; Espirandieu, Signae. medic, ocular. 120 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 280 ; Arch. Journ. vii, 359 ; xxxiv, 356 ; Simpson, Arch. Essays, ii, 285, pi. 3, 10 ; id. in Monthly Journ. of Med. Science, xii (1851), p. 250, pi. 3, 10 ; Wright, Celt, Roman, and Saxon (6th ed.), 299 ; Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 246, with plate ; Bonner J ahrb'ucher,-a. (1853), 176 ; JahrbUcher fur Philol. 1858, p. 589 ; Philologus, xiii (1858), p. 163, no. 67 ; Grotefend, Stempel der Augendrz.te, 121, no. 100 ; Rivue archlol. xiii (1893), p. 25, no. 77. The reading given above is taken from an impression of the stamp made by Mr. W. Johnson, novif in the possession of Mr. Walter Pilley. " Duncumb-Cooke, Kist. ofHerefs. iv, 114. " Woolhope Club Trans. 1896, pp. 108, 151, Appendix, p. i. In the museum as many as 70 coins, all small copper, are marked as from Mr. Whiting. " Ibid. 1882, p. 245 ; 1896, Appendix, p. 6 fF. " Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 286 ; cf. lium. Chron. (Ser. 4), vii, 402 and 377, no. 901 ; 'Num. Journ. i, 264. " Duncumb-Cooke, op. cit. iv, 114. Stated to be now at South Kensington. " Obv. : bust of Constantine and constantinvs ivn n c ; rev. : altar surmounted by crown and votis xx. PLON. " Soc. Ant. MS. Min. xvii, 316, March 1781. " Wright, Wanderings of an Antiquary, 38 ; Arch. Journ. xxxiv, 357 ; Gent. Mag. xxxvii (1852), 124. The stag is in the Hereford Museum. 182