Wire records om 19/3/1849 'On Friday last (16/3/1849) a hoard of 800 brass coins was found at the Union house in a heap, and had probably been buried together in a wooden box, as fragments of wood were discovered with them, I purchased 263 of them, they are very small and many among them were blanks. From the few of them that could be read there are Constantine the Great, and probably were intended to pass current during the Saxon period, as no coins have yet been appropriated to the East Saxon kingdom, and no doubt were buried in some emergency'.<1><2>