Besides, the _Norman_, _Saxon_ and _Danish_ peeces of _Cuthred_, _Canutus_, _William Matilda_,[22] and others, some Brittish Coynes of gold have been dispersedly found; And no small number of silver peeces neer _Norwich_[23]; with a rude head upon the obverse, and an ill formed horse on the reverse, with inscriptions _Ic. Duro T._ whether implying _Iceni_, _Duroriges_, _Tascia_, or _Trinobantes_, we leave to higher conjecture. Vulgar Chronology will have _Norwich_ Castle as old as _Julius Cæsar_, but his distance from these parts, and its _Gothick_ form of structure, abridgeth such Antiquity. The _British_ Coyns afford conjecture of early habitation in these parts, though the City of _Norwich_ arose from the ruines of _Venta_, and though perhaps not without some habitation before, was enlarged, builded, and nominated by the _Saxons_. In what bulk or populosity it stood in the old East-angle Monarchy, tradition and history are silent. Considerable it was in the _Danish_ Eruptions, when _Sueno_ burnt _Thetford_ and _Norwich_,[24] and _Ulfketel_ the Governour thereof was able to make some resistance, and after endeavoured to burn the _Danish_ Navy. [22] _A peece of_ Maud _the Empresse said to be found in_ Buckenham Castle _with this inscription_, Elle n'a elle. [23] _At_ Thorpe. [24] _Brampton_ Abbas Jorvallensis. How the _Romanes_ left so many Coynes in Countreys of their Conquests, seemes of hard resolution, except we consider how they buried them under ground, when upon barbarous invasions they were fain to desert their habitations in most part of their Empire, and the strictnesse of their laws forbiding to transfer them to any other uses; Wherein the _Spartans_[25] were singular, who to make their copper money uselesse, contempered it with vinegar. That the _Britains_ left any, some wonder; since their money was iron, and Iron rings before _Cæsar_; and those of after stamp by permission, and but small in bulk and bignesse; that so few of the _Saxons_ remain, because overcome by suceeding Conquerours upon the place, their Coynes by degrees passed into other stamps, and the marks of after ages. [25] _Plut._ in vita Lycurg. Then the time of these Urnes deposited, or precise Antiquity of these Relicks, nothing of more uncertainty. For since the Lieutenant of _Claudius_ seems to have the first progresse into these parts, since _Boadicea_ was overthrown by the Forces of _Nero_, and _Agricola_ put a full end to these Conquests; it is not probable the Country was fully garrisoned or planted before; and therefore however these Urnes might be of later date, not likely of higher Antiquity.