A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



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 Cud- 

 dington 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 antiqui- 

 ties 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.] 



TOPOGRAPHICAL LIST OF PREHISTORIC ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN 



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



ASTON CLINTON. Late Celtic pottery, now in Aylesbury Museum [Archceologia, 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. Palaeolithic implements [Ancient Stone Implements, 591]. 

 CASTLETHORPE. Pair of silver armlets showing traces of Late Celtic influence in the 



ornament \jfournal of the British Archaeological 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. Land., 2nd series, vol. xix. pp. 287-289]. 



Late Celtic fibula [Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Land., 2nd series, vol. xv. p. 191]. 

 DRAYTON BEAUCHAMP. Uninscribed gold coin [Evans' Ancient British Coins, 449]. 

 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]. 



1 Ancient British Coins, p. 216. 



