On the history of the whole period for Britain see _Cambridge Medieval History_, i.

378, 379.] [Footnote 2: See, for example, the coin-finds of the country-houses at Thruxton, Abbots Ann, Clanville, Holbury, Carisbrooke, &c., in Hampshire (_Victoria Hist.

of Hants_, i.

294 foll.).

The Croydon hoard deposited about A.D.351 (_Numismatic Chronicle_, 1905, p.