A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



Found at Stanford 

 {Oripnal Siz^) 



had the appearance of scales of armour. 9. Six amphorae oi th.zzommon reddish-bufF pottery in 

 different positions. Only one of these was capable of restoration. It was about 2 ft. 7|- in. in 

 height, and i ft. 2 J in. in its largest diameter. Two handles were attached to the neck, and it con- 

 tained at the bottom a ball of pitch like the one found at She£ford. 10— lO-io. Along the 

 east side of the vault was a great quantity of pottery of the ordinary red, grey, and black ware, 

 and three Samian cups which were perfect. 11. Four white stones and one black one, about 

 \ in. in diameter, oblong in shape, flat at the bottom, and convex at the top, which, it has 

 been conjectured from a painting at Pompeii, were for use in a game. In this vault were also 



found a flute of bone or ivory, consisting of six pieces (see pi. iii) 

 and a knife with a bone handle. No human bones were discovered, 

 but ashes were found mixed with the earth, in the same way as at 

 ShefFord, The water came very quickly into the vault when it was 

 opened, which prevented so minute an inspection as could have 

 been wished [Dryden, op. cit. 1 4 ; Brayley, Graphic and Hist. Illus- 

 trator, 381 et seq.]. 



In the second vault the following objects were found : — i . The 

 remains of a small oak box, covered with thin brass plate, stamped with scrolls of foliage. With 

 the box were two small angular handles, several small nails or studs, a blue and a green glass 

 bead, red, brown, and yellow stone rings to be worn as beads, a pair of silver tweezers, and three 

 brass staples, which were probably those by which the handles were 

 fastened. 2. A fine brass coin, illegible as to the name, but the 

 letters .... AUG, F, TR, p, co . . . . were visible, and the head 

 appeared to be that of Titus (a.d. 79-81). 3. The fragments of 

 an urn of deep-violet coloured glass, the body of a common form, 

 between a globe and a cone, with a long neck, and two rectangular 

 handles. 4. A bottle of blue glass, nearly globular, found in- 

 verted. 5. A pale green glass bowl, in perfect preservation, 

 made of thick glass, ribbed perpendicularly. 6. A bottle, of the 

 same material as the bowl, but of the shape of the blue glass bottle 

 (No. 4), only a little larger. 7, 8. In the corners of the vault 

 standing nearly upright were two iron bars exactly alike, i ft. 5 in. 

 in length, and about J in. in thickness. At one end of each bar 



was a knob and two staples, and a little 

 further ofiF two more staples through 

 which the bar had evidently been passed. 



Mr. Inskip said that when they were first discovered a representa- 

 tion of a face could be traced on the knobsj but nothing of the 

 kind was to be seen afterwards. The use of these instruments 

 has not been determined. 9. An armlet, apparently of peat 

 oak or Kimmeridge Clay, 4JL in. in diameter. 10, 11. Two large 

 wine jars. At the bottom of one jar were found fifty or sixty 

 common snail-shells, and a few of a yellowish spiral shell found 

 in ponds {Buccinum undatum). They must all have been placed 

 there at the time of the interment. 12. Some bowls of Samian 

 ware, only two or three of which were entire, the others had 

 probably been broken before they were buried [Num. Journ. i, 80]. 

 13* H- Two silver buckles, with silver straps attached to them; 

 near them were found two brass articles resembling large buttons, 

 having cement inside them and a brass (or bronze) brooch of harp 

 shape [Arch. Journ. vii, 71 ; Dryden, op. cit. 15; Gent. Mag. 

 Lib. Rom.-Brit. Remains, i, 7 ; Brayley, Graphic and Hist. Illus- 

 trator, 343, 378 ; Assoc. Arch. Soc. i, 167]. 

 Stotfold. — Roman remains are said to have been found here [Dryden, 

 op. cit.], and Mr. W. Ransom, F.S.A., has in his collection some 

 plain pottery which came from this site. 

 ToDDiNGTON. — Roman antiquities have been found here from time to 

 time, and in 1874, while digging in an isolated knoll called Fox 

 Burrow in the valley about two miles to the east of the village, 

 there were discovered numerous fragments of small urns of a coarse 

 clay slightly baked and not made on the wheel, and from the 

 appearance of the ashes and charred wood and boulders among 

 which they were found, it is thought that there may have been 

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Second Vault at Stanford 



Iron Knife from 



ToDDINGTON 



