Early in 1871, substantial alterations were made to a house in Mount Street, about north of the parish church. The workmen were removing the brick flooring of one of the ground floor rooms and excavating the soil beneath, to insert the joists of a boarded floor, when they discovered a hoard of coins. Beneath the bricks, they came upon the original hard clay floor, and in the centre of the room at about from the surface, the remains of an earthen vessel containing over 300 coins. Except for two fine gold nobles, all of the coins were silver.