72 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
residence of a Roman population, and especially of a mining 
one. They are just what might be expected to be found in 
the vicinity of a Roman Road, and the Ryknield Street has 
been traced to the neighbourhood of Tapton (or Tupton) Hill, 
near which the town is situated. In Leland’s ‘‘ Collectanea ” 
(Vol I, p. 276), it is said that in 1266, Robert de Ferrars was 
taken prisoner apud castrum de Chesterfelde, and in the Chester- 
field Parish Register of a.v., 1605, Zupton Castle is mentioned. 
It is therefore quite possible that some future discovery may 
be made of a Roman Station on Tapton Hill. It has been 
pointed out by Mr. Pegge, that the oldest parts of the town 
are “about the Church, Tapton Lanehead, and Holywell 
Street,” also that the present Market Place is styled in the 
old Chartulary of Beauchief Abbey, the Mew Market Place. 
So far as the present evidence goes, the site of ZLutudae would 
seem to be nearer Wirksworth. Let us first take the inscribed 
pigs of lead found, and consider the purport of their epigraphic 
evidence. In April, 1777, on Cromford Nether Moor, in the 
parish of Wirksworth, a pig of lead was found, described in the 
‘«* Archeologia ” (Vol. V., p. 369), by Dr. Pegge, and which is now 
in the British Museum. It is 22 inches in length, 5+ inches 
in width, and weighs 127 lbs. The inscription is 
IMP .CAES . HADRIANI. AVG. MET. LVT. 
The second pig found in Derbyshire, also described in the 
first instance by Pegge, was discovered shortly before October, 
1783, in “ridding” some ground near Matlock Bank, on 
Matlock Moor, during the inclosure of some common land. 
It lay at the depth of a few inches only, and was covered by 
a large stone. Like the other, it is now in the British Museum. 
Whilst 214 inches long, and 4} inches wide, it is by no means 
so thick as the first named pig, and weighs only $3 lbs. Its 
inscription is 
L.ARVCONI . VERECVNDI . METAL. LVTVD. 
Close to where this pig was found, the remains of a smelting 
