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county are given verbatim in Ten Years' Diggings, a work which will be 

 referred to again shortly. Bray's Tour in Derbyshire and Yorkshire (1778) 

 and Pilkington's Present State of Derbyshire (1789) share with the early 

 volumes of Archceologia in containing the first published accounts ot many 

 of these pre-historic remains. Nearer the close of this century the names 

 of the Rev. Bache Thornhill of Stanton and Mr. White Watson, F.L.S., 

 of Bakewell, better known for his geological pursuits, are associated with 

 archaeological discoveries on Stanton Moor. 



After a lull of twenty years came another period of activity. Again 

 the change was brought about by two individuals, Mr. William Bateman, 

 F.S.A., of Youlgreave, and Mr. Samuel Mitchell of Sheffield, who appear 

 to have been close friends. Mr. Bateman came of an old Hartington 

 family, which, about the beginning of the last century, became possessed of 

 the manor of Middleton-by-Youlgreave, which is situated in a region sin- 

 gularly rich in ancient remains. Between the years 1821 and 1827 he, 

 singly or with Mr. Mitchell, opened a dozen or more of the barrows in 

 the vicinity. After his death, the latter gentleman opened many barrows 

 around Hathersage, contributing an occasional paper upon his discoveries 

 to the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society. Many of his memo- 

 randa of these are bound in the last of five manuscript volumes relating 

 to the district of that city, which passed to the British Museum upon his 

 death in i868/ About the same period (1827-8) a Mr. Thomas Bird 

 of Eyam opened barrows on Leam and Eyam Moors. 



After another lull we enter in 1843 upon a third period of activity 

 which curiously was again brought about by two men working in friendly 

 concert. The first to appear on the scene was Mr. Thomas Bateman, 

 F.S.A., son of the above Mr. Bateman and author of Vestiges of the Antiqui- 

 ties of Derbyshire (1848) and Ten Years Diggings in Celtic ana 1 Saxon Grave 

 Hills in the Counties of Derby ^ Stafford and York (1861). These books 

 ' record the systematic opening of more than four hundred tumuli,' most 

 of which were in Derbyshire. His ' zealous and intelligent fellow- 

 labourer ' in the first two counties was Mr. Samuel Carrington, a 

 village schoolmaster and geologist of Wetton in Staffordshire, whose 

 barrow-diggings covered ten years (184858), while Mr. Bateman's 

 continued until the year before his early death in 1861. The scene of 

 their labours in these two counties lay, with few exceptions, between 

 Tideswell on the north, Ashbourne on the south, Rowsley on the east 

 and Leek on the west, a region bisected by Dove Dale and characterized 

 by its limestone scenery. The proceeds of these explorations were 

 preserved in Mr. Bateman's private museum at Lomberdale House near 

 Youlgreave, but some years after his death they, or rather the larger 

 portion of them, 2 were placed on loan in the Sheffield Museum, and 

 became the property of that city by purchase in 1893. 



1 Add. MSS. 28, u z. 



2 Some years ago the writer was credibly informed that all the smaller and imperfect human bones 

 and most of the potsherds were buried in the garden at Lomberdale upon the removal of the collection 

 to Sheffield. 



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