THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 85 
preceding the nationality.* It may, however, be a variation from 
the rule. This inscription like the pigs of lead, was found close 
to Wirksworth, near which Zu¢udae must have been. To my mind 
it seems to confirm the idea-that the Brittones of Mavio were 
stationed at Brough, and thus the Derbyshire and the Continental 
inscriptions throw light upon each other. 
The next station in the second series, Aguae, can from its name, 
hardly be elsewhere than at Buxton. To no other site in this part 
of the kingdom would the name “The Waters” apply. Three 
Roman roads met there, and various discoveries have been made 
of Roman remains. Whitaker, in his ‘‘ History of Manchester ” 
(2nd edit. 1773), p. 201, thus speaks of the Roman baths there, 
“The Roman bagnio at this place was plainly discernible by its 
ruins within the present century. The dimensions were then 
traceable by the eye. And the wall of it was brick, still rising 
about a yard in height upon three sides, and covered with a red 
coat of Roman cement, hard as brick and resembling tile. The 
bason was floored with stone, and supplied not by any of the springs 
which feed the present bath immediately above, but by that finer 
source of water which is now denominated St. Anne’s Well, and 
was then inclosed within it. And thus continued the very 
curious, and only remains of the Roman baths in the kingdom, so 
late as the year 1709, when Sir Thomas Delves, with a gothick 
generosity of spirit destroyed the whoie, in order to cover the 
spring with the stone alcove that is over it at present. But about 
fifty yards to the east of this, on driving a level from the present 
bath to the river in 1697, was found an appendage probably to the 
Roman bagnio,;a bason about four yards square, but made with 
sheets of lead that were spread upon large beams of timber, and 
broken ledges all along the borders. This additional bath was 
replenished from another spring which is about fourteen yards to 
the south of it, and called Bingham well. And both the springs 
and all the others of Buxton are only of a blood warm heat, and 
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* I have tried for many years to trace the present whereabouts of this stone, 
but without success. 
