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EARLY MAN

hammer-stones and waste pieces, several bones, a horse's tooth, several pieces of Roman pottery and two corroded Roman coins. Many of the flakes were ultimately replaced on each other or on to the blocks from which they were originally struck. The position was the flint-working place of a Romano-Briton.

ANCIENT BRITISH COINS

Many ancient British coins in gold, silver, copper, brass and tin have been found in Bedfordshire,^[1] though it is difficult to say how many, if any, were struck within the county boundaries. Some of the inscriptions show that the coins were produced at Verulam. Only the uninscribed coins can be included as possibly of prehistoric date. It was after the invasion of Julius Cæsar that British coins bore inscriptions, so that inscribed British coins really overlap Roman history.

Leagrave near Luton is a famous position for both uninscribed and inscribed British coins, but the chief place, though invariably given as Leagrave, is really Limbury, one and a half miles north-east of Leagrave. The coins are found on the east side of the Icknield Way south-east of the Bramingham road, half a mile north of Limbury on the top of a hilly field called 'Gooseberry-bush Hill' or 'Muswell Hill,' just north of a footpath and within the very small 400-feet contour marked on the 6-inch ordnance map, Bedfordshire, sheet xxx. N.E.

UNINSCRIBED

Leagrave, gold; Shefford, gold; Sandy, gold; Leighton Buzzard, gold; Girtford, gold, tin; Stondon, copper; Dunstable, copper, brass.

INSCRIBED

GOLD

TASCIO RICON=Tascovian, Tasciovanus, whose capital was Verulam, father of Cunobelinus b.c. 30-a.d. 5. Leagrave, Dunstable, Biggleswade.

ADDEDOMAROS=perhaps to a prince of the Eceni. Leagrave.

{{hi|CVN={{smaller|Cunobelinus, died a little before a.d. 43. Potton. CAMV obv. — CVN rev. = Camulodunum (Colchester) — Cunobelinus. Potton, Stondon, Shefford. SILVER TASC = Tasciovanus. Biggleswade. COPPER AND BRASS VERLAMIO = Verulam. Sandy. VER „ Sandy, Arlesey. VIR „ Upper Stondon, Arlesey. VIIR „ Langford. TASC. Biggleswade. CVNOBELINVS REX obv.— TASCIOVANVS rev. Arlesey, Sandy, Langford. CVNO obv.— TASCIO rev. Biggleswade. CVNOBELINI obv.— TASCIO rev. Biggleswade. CVNOB obv.— TASCIOVANTIS rev. Clifton, Sandy. RVFI (?) = Rufinus, a possible son of Tasciovanus. Biggleswade.

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1. Sir John Evans, Coins of the Ancient Britons, and supplement to that work, E. Latchmorc (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. May 1890).