80 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE 
years search for it by the author) in the possession of Mr. Beres- 
ford Wright, of Wootton Court, Warwick, who has generously 
presented it to the Derbyshire Archeological Society. 
The question now arises, where was this station /Vavio, or (as it 
would no doubt be pronounced in Roman times) Vawio, which 
was twelve Roman miles from Buxton. Twelve Roman miles 
would be equivalent to about eleven English miles. The place 
where the stone was found is in the angle between the Roman 
roads leading from Buxton to the station at Brough, near Hope, 
and from Buxton to the station at Little Chester. Taking the 
line of the former, we find that Brough is about eleven English 
miles from the spot where the stone was found, and that one of 
the streams adjoining it is called the Noe (probably a corruption 
of Mauio). There is thus a prima facie case that Brough and 
JVauio are one and the same, which seems confirmed by the other 
evidence I shall adduce. 
The station at Brough is a parallelogram of 310 feet north and 
south, by 270 feet east to west. It lies as usual on a dinmgu/a, or 
tongue of land, embracing two fields called the upper and lower 
Halsteads, between two streams called the Bradwal (or Bradwell) 
and the Noe. The latter J have already mentioned, but Bradwell 
(probably originally Broadwall) is a name that occurs on many 
Roman sites. 
Dr Pegge, in his essay on the Coritani (27d. Zop. Brit., part 
xxiv pp. 39, 40), was the first who described any discoveries 
made on the site. He visited it in 1761, ‘‘in company with John 
Mander of Bakewell, Esq.,” when he was shown ‘a rude bust of 
Apollo, and of another deity in stone, found in the fields there. 
There had also been a coarse pavement composed of pieces of 
tiles and cement discovered, as also urns, bricks, tiles, in short 
every species of Roman antiquities but coins, of which we could 
not hear that any had been found. However, I saw a very fair 
gold coin (in) 1783, which had been found at Brough Mill. It 
was of Vespasian, and bore in the vev. COS... II]. FORT . RED. 
fig. stans. dextra globum, sinistra caduceum . . . . Inthe 
upper one” (the field called the Upper Halsteads) ‘‘ innumerable 
