'This station indeed of Agelocum [Littleborough, Northants.] I have been in the neighbourhood of these eight or nine years, and the desire of procuring some of the Roman coins has sometimes led me thither; and this place has afforded no small quantities of them about 40 or 50 years ago, but most of them inconsiderable pieces of the Lower Empire, and generally so covered with rust as to be of little use for the cabinet, for I have never heard of any Thecae Nummariae being met with, where one might have hoped to have found them better preserved. Now and then appears a coin of the Upper Empire, and the larger size, as Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, and I have a very fair medalion of Trajan’s found there, struck upon that emperor’s building the famous mole at Ancona in Italy, of which it carries the ectype on its reverse. Another of Hadrian’s, with Britannia upon the reverse, sitting with a shield on her foot, a spear in her left hand, and a laurel in her right; it is the coin No 323, in Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis. These two are the most valuable coins that have falen into my hands. Others I have seen, of Vespasian, Domitian, Marcus Aurelius, &c and great numbers of Constantine, Constantius, Crispus, the Tetrici, Carausius, and Allectus, of the small copper. There are found, but arrely, Roman signets of agate and cornelian.... [Uses coins to date the site, discussing the methodological question].
I have here given you the legends or inscriptions of what coins I have at present in my hands, found at this place [and accepts honour of having a plate inscribed to him]. [Catalogue of 26 coins, Vespasian to mid fourth century]'
(Nichols 1781-1790, pp. 126-31; Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 3 pp. 144-9; Burnett 2020b, p. 1271)
