At a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries on 3 January 1722 it was decided to attempt a complete history of British coins.
Hill undertook to describe the Saxon coins in the Earl of Oxford's possession, while his own collection was to be catalogued by George Holmes.
[2] At his dying request, Hill's father showed his Herefordshire collections to Samuel Gale in March 1728, who thought they couldn't be published.
After Roberts's death in 1776 the collection, now about twenty volumes, passed back to Taylor, who sold them in 1778 to Thomas Clarke, F.S.A., principal registrar of the diocese of Hereford.
A more ambitious poem was mentioned by Maurice Johnson, junior, in a letter to Stukeley, dated 14 October 1719.
[2] Hill showed the Society of Antiquaries in 1718 many drawings and plans from travels in the west of England that summer.