Regency Miscellany: Mr Holt’s Discovery

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Mr Holt of Greenham when digging in his garden lately found about a foot and a half be low the surface a curiously wrought earthen pot containing a large quantity of ancient coins some of as early a date as Henry II and many BERKSHIRE to be much older They are deposited in Dr Lamb's Museum at Reading

This blurb appeared in the March 1810 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

present year Mr Holt of Greenham in digging his garden has found about one and a half feet below the surface of the ground a curious wrought earthen pot containing a large quantity of ancient coins some of which are of as early date as Henry II and many which he has not been yet able to ascertain the date of are supposed to be much older They are deposited in Dr Lamb's museum at Reading and may be seen by application to him

The story also appeared in The Monthly Museum in 1810.

I couldn’t find more information about this discovery or what happened to the coins, but it captured my imagination.

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