Northants. "The style and types of his coins," writes Sir John Evans,[1] "prove him to have been a contemporary of Tasciovanus and Eppillus; and as, from the rarity of his coins and the paucity of the types, his reign would appear to have been of short duration, it is by no means improbable that he was subjugated by the former, whose coins are found over much the same district." The full name of this prince may have been Andocomius or Andocombos.
Coins of Tasciovanus have been found at High Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville; copper coins of Cunobelinus at Fenny Stratford, Fleet Marston, and Thornborough; gold coins of the same prince at Cuddington and Quainton; a coin of Addedomaros at Chalfont Park, near Slough; one bearing the mysterious inscription RUFI or RVLI, found at Creslow; a coin inscribed VER in allusion probably to its having been struck at Verulamium; and various other uninscribed coins found in different parts of the county, particulars of which will be found in the topographical list at the end of this article.
[The writer wishes to express his obligations to Mr. J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A., and Mr. Reginald A. Smith, F.S.A., for kind assistance on points relating to the late Celtic antiquities of Buckinghamshire; and especially to Mr. A. H. Cocks, F.S.A., for the loan of many notes on the prehistoric antiquities of the county.]
Topogrpahical List of Prehistoric Antiquities Found In Buckinhamshire.
Aston Clinton.—Late Celtic pottery, now in Aylesbury Museum [Archæologia, vol. lii. p. 354].
Bierton.—British urn, 12 inches high, 3 feet from surface, in Aylesbury Museum [Records of Bucks, iv. 224].
Bledlow.—Numerous neolithic implements. Prehistoric cruciform cutting on side of hill.
Bradwell, New.—Hoard of sixteen bronze implements, etc., found here in 1879 [MS. notes of Mr. A. H. Cocks, F.S.A.]. Now in Aylesbury Museum.
Burnham.—Palæolithic implements [Ancient Stone Implements, 591].
Castlethrope.—Pair of silver armlets showing traces of Late Celtic influence in the ornament [Journal of the British Archæological Assoc., vol. ii. pp. 352–355].
Chalfont St. Giles.—Coin of Addedomanus found at 'Chalfont Park, Slough' [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 578].
Chesham.—Ancient British coin inscribed Ando. [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 218]; and uninscribed gold coin [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 432].
Creslow.—Ancient British coin inscribed RUFI, or RULI [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 260].
Cuddington.—Inscribed gold British coin [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 299].
Datchet.—Bronze spear-head [Evans' Ancient Bronze Implements, 333: and MS. notes of Mr. A. H. Cocks, F.S.A.].
Important collection of bronze implements, etc., presented by Mrs. Ada Benson to the British Museum. There is also in the British Museum a very remarkable bronze spear-head with gold studs, dredged from the Thames, purchased in 1903 [Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Lond., 2nd series, vol. xix. pp. 287–289].
Late Celtic fibula [Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Lond., 2nd series, vol. xv. p. 191].
Edlesborough.—A flint arrowhead (uncommon in Bucks), figured [Evans' Ancient Stone Implements, p. 383].
Ellesborough.—Ancient British coin inscribed AND. [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 218].
Uninscribed gold British coins found at Chequers Court [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 435, 436].
- ↑ Ancient British Coins, p. 216.
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