ABSTRACT
The next problem is to consider where these recent migrants had settled in Britain. Fortunately, there is a means of determining this by the coins which the tribes of south-eastern Britain began to mint. Caesar stated that the Britons used bronze and gold coins or tallies of a standard weight (v 12). The iron tallies can be identified with currency bars which were rough-cuts in wrought-iron of long swords and which had a real intrinsic value. It is interesting to note, however, that these bars are found mainly in Wessex and Gloucestershire, and very few have turned up in the south-east1. Caesar was never in contact with the tribes using them, and must have heard about them from the British allies.
