Gents Mag 1833 part 1 p.5

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1833 part 1 p.5 gravel-heaps of the south-western parts of the county of Durham. Near to the ancient beds from which all the granite blocks were torn, the Wastdale-beck rolls over prodigious quantities of them; and about three years since, when the workmen were employed in improving the road from Shap to Kendal, they had a great many of them to remove just on the north side of Wastdale beck; and under some, found considerable quantities of Roman coins, all belonging to emperors, prior, as I understood my informant, to the reign of Trajan, but principally of Vespasian and Domitian. There were 19 of gold, and about 580 of silver, and all in fine preservation. Several of them found there way into the cabinet of Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart. of Eden Hall, in Cumberland. This discovery is highly interesting, inasmuch as it serves to show that the route of Agricola's army from Wales, was by that way into Caledonia. I hope this notice may be the means of procuring you some further and more particular account of the coins themselves, and of the circumstances under which they were found. V.W.
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	-- (glacial erratics, Cumbria)
	-- Kendal to Shap

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