'The Roman coins found this spring near Eccup, and on the supposed site of Burgodunum, were contained in a pot, that was accidentally broken by a paring spade, and scattered in the circumjacent soil, and there found, in several parcels, to the number of 500, which were put into the hands of Mrs. Arthington, mother of the present lord of that soil, who was pleased to favour me with a permission of taking from thence what I found for my purpose, after I had cleaned them.
These were all of the small copper, and consisted of the coins of the following emperors : Valerianus Sen., whereof there was only one, the reverse APOLONI CONSERVAT., not very fair; Gallienus ; Salonina, his empress, of whom also there was no more than one, whose reverse was the figure of Pudicitia, the legend was mostly defaced ; Posthumus Sen. ; a single one of Laelianus, with VICTORIA AVG., which being somewhat different in figure from one I had before, I took myself; Victorinus Sen., and one of his son, as I suppose, from the name PI before Victorinus, with SALVS AVG. on the reverse, which name of PI other coins of his father are without, that have that reverse. Those of Tetricus Sen. and Jun., whose coins most abounded here, and next to theirs those of Victorinus Sen. With these were some of Claudius Gothicus, and two or three of his brother Quintillus, which I reserved for my own use.
These coins throw in some light on the Roman station of Burgodunum, where none have been found before, that I have had any knowledge of, except a silver one of Trajan, and another of large brass of the same emperor, very much defaced, that fell into my hands some years ago ; for as to the silver coins found at Cookridge in Mr. Thoresby's time, though they seem to confirm the Roman vicinal way, yet they are not so authentic an evidence for the station of Burgodunum, from which Cookridge is at least a mile distant, as the small coins before mentioned ; from the lowest of which it appears that the Roman Burgodunum flourished considerably longer (viz., about 80 years) than Mr. Thorcsby imagined ; for he assigns the reign of Severus for the latest date thereof, from the remarks he makes on the form of the letter A, found on a funeral monument near that place ; and it is further observable, from the coins of Trajan aforesaid, that the antiquity of that station rises at least as high as that emperor's reign ; and if the silver coin of Vitellius, found at Cookridge, and mentioned by Thoresby, be allowed any authority in behalf of its antiquity, it rises yet higher.
The rest of the coins found near that station, except some few which I picked out for my own use, were returned to Mrs. Arthington ; and if my honoured friend, Mr. Gale, desires a hst of the reverses of such coins as continue still in her hands, I will draw up one for him ; and if afterward he shall like to have any of them, I will endeavour to procure them for him, and do not doubt to do it.'
(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 191-3; Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 3 p. 343-5)
