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The Roman Stations of Derbyshire. 
By W. THOMPSON WATKIN. 
IKE the counties of Oxfordshire, Rutland, and Corn- 
wall, Derbyshire, and the Roman Roads and Stations 
ys it contained, finds no place either in the Itinerary 
of Antoninus, the Geography of Ptolemy, or the Wo/itia Imperit. 
The Pentingerian Tables (or rather the fragments of them we 
possess) do not extend so far into the country, and consequently 
the only guide we have as to the position Derbyshire held 
during the epoch of the Roman occupation of Britain, is the 
anonymous work generally called the Chorography of Ravennas, 
written, as far as can be gathered, in the sixth century of the 
Christian era. 
In the present paper, I propose to treat only of the five chief 
Roman Stations in the county, reserving the temporary camps, 
details of the roads, discoveries of hoards of coins, and miscel- 
laneous articles, until some future occasion. 
Until the year 1777, no clue had with any certainty been 
found as to the names of any of these Stations, though it was 
strongly suspected that the castrum existing at Little Chester, 
represented the Derbentio of Ravennas. But between that year 
and 1783 three pigs of lead were found, two on Matlock Moor, 
and a third on Cromford Moor, bearing Roman _ inscriptions. 
In these inscriptions the abbreviations LVT., MET. LVT., and 
METAL. LVTVD., occurred, which at once threw light upon 
the approximate situation of the station named Zwutudae by 
