A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



Recently the director of the museum, Mr. E. Howarth, compiled a 

 useful Catalogue to the Eateman Collection of Antiquities, in which are in- 

 corporated copious extracts from the above two books, as well as from 

 the old Lomberdale catalogue. 



In the ' sixties ' a few but extremely interesting barrows were opened 

 in the vicinity of Buxton, Tissington and Stanton by the late Mr. 

 Llewellyn Jewitt, F.S.A., the founder, and for many years the editor, of 

 the Reliquary, and Mr. J. Fossick Lucas of Fenny Bentley, whose early 

 death at thirty-five in 1873 cut short a career which promised much 

 for local archaeology. They are described in that magazine, and the 

 ' finds ' are now in the British Museum. It may be mentioned that in 

 this decade two barrows near Bradley were explored by Mr. C. S. Greaves, 

 Q.C., and several near Eyam by Mr. B. Bagshaw. 



The earlier ' seventies ' were distinguished by the investigations of 

 the late Mr. Rooke Pennington around Castleton, which formed the 

 chief subject of his Notes on the Barrows and Bone Caves of Derbyshire. 

 Mr. Pennington was a Bolton solicitor who had a country house at Castle- 

 ton, in which village he established an excellent little museum which was 

 open to the public. Shortly after his death in 1888, the collection was 

 dispersed, the local antiquities going to the Bolton Museum. The years 

 1 8756 were memorable for the highly important work conducted by the 

 Rev. J. Magens Mello, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., and others, 

 in the caves of the Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire border near Work- 

 sop, and fully described in the Journal of the Geological Society and else- 

 where. Then followed a ten-years' lull. 



The next period of activity opened with the present writer's explora- 

 tion of barrows near Upper Haddon, followed by that of Rains' Cave and 

 other remains near Brassington. Throughout the ' nineties ' Mr. Micah 

 Salt of Buxton engaged in similar operations in his district, the writer 

 frequently joining him. His most notable work was the excavation of 

 the Deepdale Cave. Most of the Derbyshire discoveries during the past 

 fifteen years have been described by the writer in the Reliquary, the 

 Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeo- 

 logical and Natural History Society, the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 

 and the "Journal of the British Archaeological Association. In 1901, those 

 effected by Mr. Salt were reprinted and added to under the title of Ancient 

 Remains near Buxton by Mr. W. Turner, F.S.S. During the last two 

 autumns a number of trenches have been cut upon the site of the circle 

 of Arborlow by Mr. H. St. George Gray on behalf of the British 

 Association, and Mr. I. Chalkley Gould has recently written about some 

 of the ancient defensive earthworks of the county in the Journals of the 

 British Archaeological Association and the Derbyshire Archsological and 

 Natural History Society. 



In the following pages the Derbyshire pre-historic remains are 

 grouped according to their affinities, and these groups are arranged in 

 their approximate chronological order ; but allowance must be made for 

 the overlapping of some and the uncertainty of the age of others. The 



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