MINING OPEKATIONS OF THE ROMANS. 11 



or near Chesterfield.* Aruconius appears to be a name of 

 British origin. Perhaps this Lucius had removed to 

 Lutudar from Ariconium, the modern Weston in Here- 

 fordshire, and an important mining Station of the Romans. 

 A third pig, also found on Matlock Moor, A.D. 1787, 

 and fornierly the property of Mr. Molesworth, bore the 

 following inscription : 



T. CL. TR. LVT. BR. EX. ARG. 

 This has supplied matter for many conjectures. More 

 especially the last letters ex. arg., being interpreted 

 ex. aegento, have been supposed to prove that the lead 

 was obtained from argentiferous galena. The initial con- 

 traction CL. is supposed to stand for the Emperor Claudius, 

 and, if correctly interpreted, would prove this metal to 

 have been smelted as early as A.D. 49. The letters tu. 

 may have meant Tributum, and LVT. Lutudar ense ; lastly 

 br. might mean Brigantum, so that the "whole inscription 

 would imply, that this piece of lead, extracted from silver 

 in the territory of the ßrigantes at Lutudarum, was tribute 

 paid to Claudius. f 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 



In the year 1848 a pig, weighing 1841b, was ploughed 

 up on the site of an old encampment at Hexgrave Park, 

 near Southwell, in the occupation of Mr. Jobn Parkinson. 

 It bore the following inscription : 



C. IVL. PROTI. BRIT. LVT. EX. ARG. 

 It is in the possession of Bichard Milward, Esq., of Thur- 

 garton Priory. A cast from it is in the Museum of 



* Monumenta Hülorica Britannien, Lon. 1848, folio p. xxv. b. Kir 

 Henry Ellis, p. 288-290. Archaologia, VII., p. 170. 



t Archaologia, vol. ix., p. 45-48. 



