Record ID: PUBLIC-5CAD57
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denarius of Septimius Severus (AD 193 - 211), dating to AD 203 (Reece Period 10), Obverse: SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right. Reverse: P M TR P XI COS III P P, Fortuna, seated left, holding rudder on globe and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RIC IV, pt 1, p. 116, no. 189b. 4 g. 22 mm. Almost Very Fine. The image suggests that the coin might be a plated copy but only inspection of the coin could confirm this.
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TL 02355 59184', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5AB001
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An elongate bifacially flaked pick or axe-rough but dating to a probable mesolithic period, The object is made on a broken tabular nodule of probably opaque pale grey mottled flint, there is rough and often deep flaking on both faces resulting in centre axial ridges. Both faces retain traces of chalky cortex and both margins are markedly irregular and have traces of deliberate battering or dressing. One end of the object tapers to a blunt point where it has broke off, the other is blunt thick and squared-off and has a lozenge shaped cross-section, consisting largely of naturally fract…
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Spatial data recorded.