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,’ though it is difficult to say how many, 
if any, were struck within the county boundaries. Some of the inscrip- 
tions show that the coins were produced at Verulam. Only the unin- 
scribed coins can be included as possibly of prehistoric date. It was 
after the invasion of Julius Cesar 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 Cuno- 
belinus B.c. 30-a.D. 5. Leagrave, Dunstable, Biggleswade. 
ADDEDOMAROS = perhaps to a prince of the Eceni. Leagrave. 
CVN =Cunobelinus, died a little before a.p. 43. Potton. 
CAMV ov.—CVN rev.=Camulodunum (Colchester)—Cunobelinus. Potton, Stondon, 
Shefford. 
SILVER 
TASC = Tasciovanus. Biggleswade. 
COPPER AND BRASS 
VERLAMIO = Verulam. Sandy. 
VER 55 Sandy, Arlesey. 
VIR - Upper Stondon, Arlesey. 
VIIR $5 Langford. 
TASC. Biggleswade. 
CVNOBELINVS REX o6v.—TASCIOVANVS rev. Arlesey, Sandy, Langford. 
CVNO obv.—TASCIO rev. Biggleswade. 
CVNOBELINI of/v.—TASCIO rev. Biggleswade. 
CVNOB obv.—TASCIOVANTIS rev. Clifton, Sandy. 
RVFI (?) = Rufinus, a possible son of Tasciovanus. Biggleswade. 
1 Sir John Evans, Coins of the Ancient Britons, and supplement to that work, E. Latchmore (Cam- 
bridge Antig. Soc. May 1890). 
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