in our own part of Britain were at
York, where more than one Roman Emperor lived and died, but Lindum, now
Lincoln, was an important station. About A.D. 71 Petillius Cerealis was
appointed governor of the province by the Emperor Vespasian, he was
succeeded by Julius Frontinus, both being able generals. From A.D. 78 to
85 that admirable soldier and administrator, Julius Agricola, over-ran
the whole of the north as far as the Grampians, establishing forts in all
directions, and doubtless during these and the immediately succeeding
years, a network of such stations would be constructed in our own
country, connected by those splendid highways which the Romans carried,
by the forced labour of the natives, through the length and breadth of
their vast empire.

Coins of nearly all the Roman Emperors have been found at Horncastle; one
was brought to the present writer in the 1st year of the 20th century,
bearing the superscription of the Emperor Severus, who died at York A.D.,
211.

NOTE ON ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT HORNCASTLE.

The following list of Roman and other coins found at Horncastle, has been
supplied by the Rev. J. A. Penny, Vicar of Wispington, who has them in
his own possession.

Consular, denarius, silver.
OEs grave, or Roman as, heavy brass.
Augustus, quinarius (half denarius). B.C. 27-A.D. 14.
Claudius, brass, of three different sizes. A.D. 41-54.
Vespasian, denarius, silver. A.D. 69-79.
Domitian, brass. A.D. 81-96.
Nerva, brass. A.D. 96-98.
Trajan, brass, of two sizes. A.D. 98-117.
Hadrian, brass. A.D. 117-138.
Antoninus Pius, denarius, silver. A.D. 138-161.
Faustina I., his wife, brass.
Lucius Verus, brass. A.D. 161-169.
Marcus Aurelius, brass. A D. 161-180.
Faustina II., his wife, brass.
Caracalla, denarius, silver. A.D. 211-217.
Julia Saemias, mother of Emperor Heliogabalus, denarius, silver. A.D.
218-222.
Gordian III., denarius, silver. A.D. 238-244.
Philip I., brass. A.D. 244-249.
Hostilian, denarius, silver. A.D. 249-251.
Gallienus, brass. A.D. 253-268.
Salomia, his wife, brass.
Victorinus, brass (Emperor in West). A.D. 253-260. (10 varieties).
Marius, brass (Emperor in West). A.D. 267.
Claudius II. (or Gothicus), brass. A.D. 268-270.
Tetricus I., brass (Emperor in Gaul). A.D. 270-273.
Tetricus II., brass (Emperor in Gaul). A.D. 270-274.
Probus, brass. A.D. 276-282.
Diocletian, copper, a new kind of coin named a "follis." A.D. 284-305.
Maximian, copper, a "follis.