82 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
“on the other side” of the river. The pavements, etc., named 
by Pegge are also noticed; and then we have the statement, 
“ Here also was found a fragment of a Roman pavement” (per- 
haps that named by Mr. Bateman) “and also a fragment of tile 
inscribed OH., part of the word Cohors, a brick 8 inches by 7? 
and 1} thick, with CH fair in the middle, and a broken one with 
C. Mr. Wilson, of Broomhead Hall, Sheffield, has a piece of an 
urn”’ (another account says part of the rim) ‘‘ found here 
inscribed 
VIA 
VIV 
ER: 
and part of a fine red patera. In a field at the conflux of the 
two streams a double row of pillars isremembered to have crossed 
the point of land, but they have been entirely destroyed some 
time. On the left of a gate by the road side, near the mill, is a 
base and part of a column of grit stone, and on the ground by the 
gate lay a base or plinth with part of a column on it, and a torus 
moulding to a pedestal now serves to covera well. Two large 
well-preserved urns, full of ashes, were found, and a third two 
years ago.”* The half length figure of a woman with arms folded 
across her breast, described by Whitaker, is then alluded to by 
both authors, but Bray adds that it was sold to a gentleman near 
Bakewell. (Can this gentleman be the Mr. John Mander pre- 
viously alluded to—W. T. W.?) Bray also says “that pieces of 
swords, spears, bridle bits, and coins have also been found here.” 
He seems to read the first line of the above fragmentary inscription 
as VIT. Others have read it as VIX, and still others as VIA. 
To me the word seems plainly to be VITA, the T and A being 
ligulate, but as the original appears to be lost (as are also the 
tiles), nothing can be said with certainty. All agree that the TR 
in the third line was in smaller letters than the other portion. 
Mr. Bateman, who wrote as late as 1850, says : ‘‘ Foundations of 
various buildings, one of considerable size, are to be observed ” ; 
* Another account says they were of the usual globular shape. 
