Bedfordshire
Roman Bedfordshire

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The Roman antiquities, which have been discovered in this county, are not numerous, or of much importance. They consist chiefly of earthen vessels, fragments of pottery, and coins. Several urns of various forms were dug up about twenty years ago, in the parish of Sandy, at a place called Chesterfield, with many Roman coins, a small mirror of metal, a fibula, and some fragments of the beautiful red pottery, ornamented with figures, commonly supposed to be ancient Samian ware.

An amphora was found about he year 1798, in the peat of Maulden Moor, together with several urns of different forms and sizes, containing bones and ashes, and fragments of the red pottery enriched with figures and other ornaments; they lay about three feet below the surface of the moor, which is quite level.

Roman coins have been found also near Dunstable, and at Market-street.

Extract from: Lysons' Magna Britannia being a concise topographical account of several counties of Great Britain by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, A.M., F.R.S. F.A. and L.S. Rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire and Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.R.S. and F.A.S. Keeper of His Majesty's Records in the Tower of London, 1806

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