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foundations of hewn stone had been ploughed up, and in the 
lower, very near the angle made by the two brooks, are the appa- 
rent marks of an oblong square building., the angles of which were 
of hewn grit-stone, but in the other parts, as between @ and 4, for 
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example, you find fragments of bricks and tiles. At this place the 
pavement above-mentioned was found, and is now there mixed 
with the other rubbish.” He adds, there was no doubt that this 
was a Roman building, for among the many baskets full of bricks 
and tiles which he dug up, there was one stamped COH.. (This 
he engraves, but it is only the left-hand portion of a tile. 
Whitaker, the historian of Manchester, tells us (‘‘ History of 
Manchester,” vol. i., p. 197), after describing a stone in the belfry 
of the church at Ilkkley—* And at Brough, in Derbyshire, which 
was equally a town of the Romans, in 1767 I saw a stone exhibit- 
ing a somewhat similar figure. It was large and rough, had been 
discovered in a field a little distant from the Gritstone water, and 
then lay in one of the hedges. And in the bending hollow of one 
side is presented the half-length of a woman, crossing her hands 
on her breast, and wearing a large peaked bonnet on her head,” 
etc.; and at p, 251, in a note, he says that the pretorium at 
Brough “was upon one side, and along the lofty margin of the 
river bank.” 
According to Mr. Bateman (p. 153), “In 1773, a tesselated 
pavement, of which the prevailing colours were red and white, 
was discovered at the Halsteads, also many inscribed bricks.” 
From Mr. W. Bray’s “‘ Tour in Derbyshire,” pp. 211, 212 (pub. 
1783), and Gough’s 1806 edition of Camden’s “ Britannia” (vol. 
ii. p. 430), we. gather that “ many foundations and bricks had 
been ploughed up”’ in the station, and that urns had been found 
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