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Record ID: IARCH-FE1D63
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
1st century BC. The 4th & final season at RB settlement of Sandy at municipal cemetery was completed in autumn 1991. Silted-up stream palaeochannel contained over 30 IA coins, incl. gold stater of Tasciovanus. This evidence appears to complement discovery of large sculptured relief during 1989 season, & thus indicate the continued use of Sandy as place of veneration from LIA on. Dawson, M. & Maull, A. 1992. Bedfordshire, excavation and post excavation, Sandy. South Midlands Archaeology 22: 6. Oake et al. 2007. Bedfordshire Archaeol. Research Agenda, pp. 12, also Dawson, M. 1995.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-DC64FC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
3rd century. A dispersed hoard of approx. 70 mid-280s coins found, together with another hoard of 100-150 3rd to 4th C. coins. Dawson, M. 1995. Sandy. In A. Brown (ed.) Roman Towns in Eastern England & Beyond. Oxbow, pp. 167-177.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F50B57
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two Gallo-Belgic Ca staters thought to be from the same deposit.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shefford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A6A4C0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
HER reference to the findspot of a Roman coin hoard, without further details. The site was investigated in 1972 but may have been found earlier (the source appears to be OS Archaeology record cards).
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arlesey', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D2C6B7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
HER reference to the findspot of a Roman coin hoard "in 1870-50", without further details. The source appears to be OS Archaeology record cards. Possibly radiates: The HER record states "A single coin of Claudius II is recorded as being in Letchworth Museum, and may be from this hoard".
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Astwick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A81B05
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
8 miliarenses, 450 siliquae and 1 bronze coin to AD 408; 3 silver spoons; 6 silver and 1 gold ring; 1 gold and 2 silver necklace clasps; fragments of pottery. NC 1999, 38.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haynes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A37EB1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 407 no. 1624: "Re. the Roman settlement at Sandy, Beds: "The recorded and extant coins comprise an alleged hoard and numerous chance finds. These have been examined by Dr. R. Reece. He comments that the hoard contains obvious contaminants, but that there may be at the core of the material a genuine Theodosian hoard, many of whose pieces have strayed into the list of general site finds. The latter range from Republican to Honorian issues. The coin series runs smoothly to the end of the 4th century, ending abruptly with the hoard of about AD 400." D.E. Johnston, in B…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-B9693E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
18 denarii to Hadrian. A group of 18 denarii (Republic, 10; Augustus, 2; Nero, 1; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 3; Hadrian, 1) was found in the same field but scattered over a much wider area than the aurei (Shillington A)(Treasure Annual Report 1998-99, 284). Curteis and Burleigh state that the denarii which came from several small deposits of 3-4 denarii each and they are unlikely to be associated with the aureus hoard. Pastscape mentions evidence for votive offerings. TAR 1998-99, 284; NC 1999, 15; NC 2000, 21 and 22; CHRB XI
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillington B', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-6386F3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
127 aurei (Tiberius, 3; Claudius, 8; Nero, 61; Galba, 1; Otho, 2; Vitellius, 1; Vespasian, 21; Titus under Vespasian, 15; Domitian under Vespasian, 11). This hoard: Tiberius (3) 1. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 25, 7.64g 2.-3. PONTIF MAXIM, RIC 29, 7.65g, 7.74g. Claudius I (8) 4. EX S C/OB CIVES/SERVATOS, RIC 15, 7.71g 5. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 38, 7.63g 6. S P Q R/P P/OB C S, RIC 53, 7.71g 7. PACI AVGVSTAE, RIC 57, 7.69g 8.-10. EQVESTER/ OR-DO/ PRINCIPI/ IVVENT, RIC 78, 7.51g, 7.54g, 7.61g 11. AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, RIC 80, 7.56g Nero (61) 12. NERONI CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P EX 
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillington A', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-443E65
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 283 no. 1201:" "An unusually fine hoard of fourth-century coins has been found in the course of sand extraction at Tingrith. While excavating with a mechanical grab, the find was revealed high up in the sand cliff. It consisted of about 30 lbs. weight of bronze coins contained in an earthenware pot, over which had been placed a second larger pot. Above it lay an ironstone slab, to mark the burial place of the hoard. Unfortunately in the mechanical operations the pots were smashed and the coins (estimated at something over 3,000) were scattered and dispersed. Through th…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tingrith', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A0E34B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 282: " "The hoard was discovered in February, 1946, after the completion of some draining operations in a field belonging to Wharley Farm, Cranfield, Beds. It lay about three feet below the surface among fragments of an earthenware pot in which it had been originally contained. The pot belongs to a class of Romano-British pottery which was in general use from c. mid-second to c. mid-fourth century AD and is a globular-bodied vessel (maximum diameter 6 3/8 in. (16.19 cm.)) with a narrow, slightly expanded base of 2 5/8 in. (6.67 cm.) diameter. There are two pairs of pa…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2BD3C0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 249 no. 1027; ""In 1770, great quantity of copper coins of Antoninus and Constantine with many small ornaments of bridles and armour were found in a down near Dunstable digging for gravel." -J. Nichols, Bibl. Top. Brit., IV (1790), 202 -"It was about the year 1770, that a labourer of the town of Dunstable, digging for gravel near the Shepherd's Bush, discovered an earthern urn or pot, formed of red clay, and nearly full of small copper coins of several Roman emperors." The pot was broken. -H. Brandreth, in Arch., XXVII (1838), 104 -These two accounts seem to refer…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-47987A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 126 no. 553: " "1880, February 7. Memoranda respecting 177 coins of Tetricus the Second, found on Priestley Farm on January 22nd and 23rd, 1880, by John Jellis and Thomas Jellis, of Flitwick, when cutting a drain for Mr. Duncombe the occupier'. In digging out the peat (of which the subsoil is composed) one of the men lifted out in his spade a round heavy lump and threw it out on the side of the drain. On examination it proved to be a mass of coins cemented together, and many of which broke to pieces on handling them. The lump of coins was found about two feet six inc…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flitwick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2B9EB2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000,122-123 no. 537: ""Through the kindness of John Shaw Leigh, Esq., of Luton Hoo, I am enabled to communicate to the Society an account of a hoard of Roman coins discovered on the 2nd of December last upon his estate. They were enclosed in a coarse earthenware vase, which lay but little below the surface of the soil, and which was broken in pieces by the labourers who discovered it, who immediately proceeded to appropriate the spoil. The number of coins that was found has been variously reported as from 1,000 up to 10,000; but, in point of fact, I believe, from all the ci…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-1BFB38
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2002, 32 no. 167: ""The find made at Langford, Bedfordshire, consisted of 25 coins down to 155. All were asses, except for a worn coin of Domitian which was struck from a dupondius die on the copper flan of an as.": Asses Claudius 2 Nero 2 Vespasian 10 Titus (under Vespasian) 1 Domitian 5 Trajan 2 Hadrian 2 Antoninus Pius 1 25 (1 b., Minerva advancing r.) (minted at Lyons) (minted at Lyons) (1 under Vespasian, minted at Lyons) (rev. Britannia, of AD 154-5) A.M. Burnett, in CH IV (1978), 35, no. 114; and 45, no. 114, types, mints".
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-52565B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
"In the spring of this year, a farmer, ploughing in a field just beyond Shefford, in Bedfordshire, turned up several silver, potin and small brass coins, which were submitted to my inspection. They were nearly all of the same date, common and generally in bad condition; but three were in such good preservation that I considered a notice of them might not be unacceptable to your readers." The three coins were 1 quinarius, 1 ant. and 1 small AE: AR Ant. AE Allectus 1(Q.) 1 Constans, Aug. 1 1 1 1 J.Y. Akerman, in NJ, I (1837), 80, types
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shefford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-6D7C84
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dated 1575. It is very worn on the obverse.
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Billington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-E32694
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Post-Medieval coin, possibly a halfgroat of Charles I, but very worn.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eggington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-EB9E72
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An oval copper alloy buckle frame with concave sides. At the centre of the concave sides there would have been a separate, iron central bar (now lost). There are three moulded ridges in the centre of each concave side and a moulded indentation in the centre of the curved outside edge for a pin rest. These curved edges have a grooved edge. The surface of the buckle is decorated with punched motifs, including roses, circles and two rows of small squares.
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood End', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-3132F3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy hooked tag of D-shaped section. The hook is likely to have had a flat back and a semi-cylindrical front of slightly smaller width. The decoration on the semi-cylindrical section is in the form of raised criss-crossing lines, possibly in two fields separated by a horizontal band. A slightly tapering, oval-sectioned hook extends from one short end round to the underside. A similar hook in the London Museum Catalogue (Ward Perkins 1940, 279, A 15686) is dated to the late fifteenth century by its decoration. More recently, similar items have also been given a six…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maulden', grid reference and parish protected.