20 THE ROMAN PLACE-NAMES 



eigliteentK and nineteentli centuries in various parts of 

 England bear the letters LYT, LVTVD, or LYTVDARES. 

 The last of these abbreviations ^^ stands for Lutudarensis , 

 which doubtless means " Of Lutudarum." The correct 

 reading in the Ravennas citation is most probably 

 Lutudaro. In the inscription last mentioned the adjective 

 Lutudarensis is applied to a raine (MetallumLuUidarense). 

 The fact that far more pigs bearing the name of Lutudarum 

 have been found in the neighbourhood of Matlock than in 

 any other place is some reason for supposing that the name 

 was applied to that district or to some part of it. If 

 the ordinary view as to the identity of the place mentioned 

 next in Ravennas be correct, the locality of Lutudarum 

 may be regarded as being fixed with fair accuracy. ^^ 



It is now a very long time since Deruentio was first 

 identified with Little Chester. " There is good ground," 

 says Lysons (V., p. ccxv.), " to suppose it (Little Chester) 

 was called Derventio, from the neighbouring river (the 

 Derwent), though there were at least two other towns of 

 the same name in the island ; one near York, and a 

 second in Cumberland. The majny roads bearing in every 

 direction to the station, the numerous remains dug up on 

 the spot, and the exact distance from ad Trivonam and 

 Etocetum, which Richard states Derventio to be in his 

 18th iter, put this subject out of all reasonable doubt." 

 We now know the value of " Richard " and his statements, 

 but the other reasons here assigned all hold good. Little 

 Chester was in Roman times a place of considerable 

 importance, partly because it was the meeting-point of a 



12. Found on Tansley Moor, about two miles north-east of Matlock, in 

 1894. Dr. Haverfield (Proc. Soc. Aiitiq. xv. 188; Vict. Hist. p. 232) 

 and several others have written on the subject. 



13. Lysons {Magna Britannia, V., p. ccvii.) says "there is great reason 

 to suppose" that Lutudarum "was the present town of Chesterfield." 

 The reasons which he adduces in support of this idea {ib. p. ccxi.) are 

 quite inconclusive. 



