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A Saxon Cemetery at Luton, Beds.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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It is well known that Luton in Bedfordshire is a mine of prehistoric and historic remains. Our late Fellows Major Cooper-Cooper, of Toddington Manor, and Sir John Evans recorded finds of prehistoric graves, pottery, palaeolithic and neolithic flint implements in Luton and the surrounding hamlets of Leagrave, Biscot, and Stopsley. The late Mr. Worthington G. Smith discovered at Round Green in Luton a palaeolithic workshop similar to the one he found at Caddington, and his account of the latter will be found in Man the Primeval Savage, that of Round Green in Archaeologia lxvii. Sir John Evans found in and around Luton many British and Roman coins, also specimens of Roman pottery. Mr. Worthington Smith found both British and Roman coins in considerable numbers at Limbury. Specimens of Roman and Roman British pottery have been found in all parts of Luton. I dug up a large Roman pot at Turner's Knoll, Luton, which Mr. Reginald Smith thinks was used for storing grain. It has been restored by Mr. Axtell, and measures 16 in. in height and 15 in. in diameter. I found many Roman tiles in a field at Luton called ‘Lower Thirty Acres’, and other Roman remains have been found in Waller Street and in various parts of the town.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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References

page 182 note 1 Cf. British Museum Anglo-Saxon Guide, 1923, p. 56, fig. 61.Google Scholar

page 182 note 2 Vide Dunstable Museum Report, 1925-1926, p. 7.Google Scholar

page 183 note 1 Kindly identified by Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., Keeper of Botany, Natural History Museum.