Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . Britain little in Roman days, nor isthere absolute proof that the Romans mined for gold in our is notorious, however, that prehistoric Ireland was very rich ingold. That metal is still found in South Ireland among the 1 McElderry, p. 74. 2 Upper-German aiixilia were serving in Moesia in 82 : Dessau, Fifteenth Legion {Apollinaris) seems to have been sent from Pannoniato Mauretania ca. 81 : Dess. 8969 (cp. CIL. xiv. 2933, with Hirsch-felds note in , p. 391, and 9200; Domaszewski, ,p. 168). 3 Solinus in his third-century
Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . Britain little in Roman days, nor isthere absolute proof that the Romans mined for gold in our is notorious, however, that prehistoric Ireland was very rich ingold. That metal is still found in South Ireland among the 1 McElderry, p. 74. 2 Upper-German aiixilia were serving in Moesia in 82 : Dessau, Fifteenth Legion {Apollinaris) seems to have been sent from Pannoniato Mauretania ca. 81 : Dess. 8969 (cp. CIL. xiv. 2933, with Hirsch-felds note in , p. 391, and 9200; Domaszewski, ,p. 168). 3 Solinus in his third-century compilation, Collectanea rerum rnemora-bilium, speaks of metallorum larga variaque copia, quibus Brittaniaesolum pollet vents locupletibus (22. XI, ed. Mommsen, 1895, p. 102,18). APPENDIX II Wicklow hills; Britain tl.« tndV But faint known ; in partii , asAt Mold, in 1 lintornament iging in date to thi . formi rly knou i but now tak eytrel or * brunt for a pony \ It set indicate thai gold w;is then obtainable in north-west W. Fi<. aa. Gold ornament f the Broi »u Mold in Flint In SOUth-west Wales supposed trace J Roman gold- mining have been found in the set luded valley of theCothi—amongthe hills dividing the Tivy from the I ir the hamlet of DolatlCOthy, twenty-two miles north-east of Carmarthen, and tenmiles north-west of Llandovery, n the line of a Roman roa<Helen) which connected Carnarvon and Carmarthen. \ is auriferous rock, and clear traces surv;workings—adits and galleries pierced in the hillsides throughrock, and also a series of surface cuttings sug^- I rock-hewn Iv. 397 foil. Possibly it was theIrish gold which attracted arly Kuropean invaders into the British Isles. Tl in North Scotland counted for seems, in early ? v in the British Museum It is three and a half feet loo|•In Mmatmm f-nnii to tin Antiqmttes <ir C. H. Read. would not decorate his horse with the pitill
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