PREFATORY NOTE BY PROFESSOR R. S. CONWAY. 



The following pages contain the record of the excavation and 

 study of the site and antiquities of the Roman Camp known 

 as Melandra Castle, near Glossop, in 1905, by members and 

 friends of the Excavation Committee of the Manchester and 

 District Branch of the Classical Association in pursuance of 

 a friendly arrangement with the trustees of the site (the Glossop 

 Archasological and Natural History Society). The excavation 

 is far from complete yet, but we have done our best to interpret 

 as fully as possible the abundant evidence already obtained, 

 and I venture toi think the chronological results we have 

 established (to- mention only these) are of some historical 

 miportance. The Excavation Committee is especially indebted 

 to its Secretary, Mr. F. A. Bruton, for undertaking the heavy 

 work of planning and describing the camp so far as it is yet 

 opened. The actual operations were directed first by him, and 

 later on by Mr. J. H. Hopkinson and myself. 



Each contributor to the Report is responsible for his own 

 article only, but at the request of the Committee of the Branch 

 I acted as General Editor. I may, perhaps, be allowed to 

 express the pleasure with which our Committee entered into 

 an arrangement with the Editor of this Journal whereby our 

 Report on this well-known Derbyshire site is appearing in its 

 pages. The division of the cost of publication has enabled 

 us to make our illustrations far more complete than we could 

 have ventured otherwise to do. 



R. S. Conway. 



The University, MancJiester, 



April, 1906. 



P.S. — Mr. Bruton has now kindly added, at the request of 

 the Excavation Committee, a brief account of the operations 

 which he and Mr. A. C. B. Brown, B.A., directed this summer, 

 of which a full report will appear early in 1907, under the title 

 Tni.ihiU, Mancunium, and Melandra. 



