86 THE ROMAN STATIONS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
must, therefore, have been more congenial to the state, and more 
friendly to the health of the human frame . . * . than the 
boiling waters of the sun at Bath.” 
In 1781, when the foundations of the houses in the Crescent 
were being dug, another bath was discovered, thirty feet in length 
from east to west, and fifteen broad from north to south. It was 
supplied by a spring which rose at its western end, and there was 
an outlet for the water at the opposite or eastern end, which had 
a “‘floodgate”” attached. It was lined with a concrete formed of 
lime and pounded tile, and at one end was adeep cavity. No 
trace of the station is visible above ground, but it is generally 
supposed to have been on the “ Stane Cliffe,” a hill rising above 
the Hall, for occasionally Roman remains have been discovered 
there. Major Rooke, in 1787, found what he considered to be 
the ruins of a temple, but unfortunately very little has been pub- 
lished of the discoveries made between 1781 and 1787.* 
Mr. Bateman (p. 151) says that “ Roman coins are frequently 
discovered at Buxton or in the neighbourhood, and that the late 
Dr. Buxton (sc) possessed several of 3rd brass of Constantine, 
found in the vicinity in 1811.” 
There still remain two other stations in this second series to be 
noticed, Avnemeza and Zerdotalia. ‘The first I hardly think is in 
Derbyshire (though it may be); I am inclined to place it at the 
well marked Roman station at Toot Hill, above Forest Chapel in 
Cheshire. The other is very probably the castrum, now called 
‘* Melandra Castle.” Ravennas gives the names of many of the 
stations in a very corrupt form. Taking for instance some of 
those on the Roman Wall (of which we know the names from the 
LVotitia), instead of Segeduno he gives Serduno, instead of Conderco 
he gives Condecor, instead of Hunno he gives Onno, and instead 
of Cilurno he gives Ce/unno, and there are many other instances 
of incorrect orthography in his work. I am, therefore of opinion, 
that instead of Zerdotalia he should have written Zedrotalia, for 
the following reason. The river Mersey, in its upper portion, 
* See “‘ Archzologia,’’ vol. ix., p. 137, etc. 
