A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



and gritstone quoins, and a pavement of tiles and cement, and Bray re- 

 cords a ' pavement of small bits of brick and pebble strongly cemented,' 

 and ' a double row of gritstone pillars wide enough for three people to 

 walk abreast between them,' destroyed before his day, but remembered by 

 tradition. Bray's pavement is doubtless the same as Pegge's, and his 

 pillars may be taken to be the piles of the hypocaust required for the 

 bath-house. 1 Among the tiles of this building were one or two with the 

 letters C O H or the like, broken and imperfect. Of the cemetery and 

 the camp-followers' village, both of which we should expect to meet 

 outside the fort, no definite traces have yet been noticed. Urns with 

 ashes have, however, been found occasionally, and the Ordnance Survey 

 places some such on the further side of Bradwell Brook. 



The finds of smaller objects include some inscriptions and architec- 

 tural fragments, querns, stone balls suitable for catapults, glass, potsherds 

 (amongst which are some bits of embossed Samian bowls of a second- 

 century type), 2 a few coins, and some minor fragments. The coins are : 

 a gold coin of 'Augustus'; another of Vespasian (A.D. 71, Cohen 97) ; a 

 ' Second Bronze' of perhaps the second century, found in 1903 near the 

 headquarters ; and some undecipherable Third Brass, conjecturally 

 assigned to the fourth century, found in the filling of the vault. 3 They 

 throw no light on the history of the fort. 



More importance attaches to the inscribed and architectural frag- 

 ments, and especially to the inscriptions. These are as follows : 



(i) Four pieces of an inscribed slab, which when perfect was an 

 oblong panel with a plainly-moulded border, 30 or 32 inches tall, 

 54 inches long, and 4 inches thick. They were found in the vault in 

 1903. The piece inscribed SCOPRAF was walled in, as a bit of old 

 building material, at the point b on fig. i o. The other three pieces were 

 found in the debris which filled the vault, about halfway down. The 

 largest piece had obviously been used at one time as a flooring slab, no 

 doubt by the Romans themselves, before it was thrown into the vault. 

 The whole when perfect was inscribed with six lines of lettering, the 

 first five lines 2 inches high and the sixth z\ inches (figs. 13, 14.) The 

 text is : 



Im[p.'] Caesari T. \Ael. Hadr. Ari\tonmo A\ug. plo. p.p~\ cob. i Aquita\norurri\ sub 

 lulio V\ero leg.] Aug. pr. pr. y imt\_ani\e [? Cd\pitonia \Fii\sco pra(e]f* ' In honour of 

 the emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, pater patriae ; (erected 



1 Pegge, Roads through the Coritani, p. 40 ; Bray, Tour, p. 210. With these we may connect the 

 cement, etc., seen by John Whitaker on the Lower Halsteads (Hist, of Manchester, i. App. p. be.) ; the 

 ' tesselated pavement' mentioned by Bateman as found in 1773 (Vestiges, p. 153) ; the pavement near 

 the river mentioned by John Wilson (cited in Bateman's Ten Tears' Diggings, p. 251), and the tiles, etc., 

 found near Brough Mill in 1892 (Derbyshire Courier, 26 Nov. 1892 ; Antiquary, Jan. 1893 ; Derbyshire 

 N. W Q. i. 49). 



2 The pottery found in 1903, including the embossed Samian, is now in the Buxton Museum. 

 Mr. Bateman had some bits (Sheffield Museum Cat. p. 213=6. i. 150; Lomberdale House Cat. 

 p. I25=E. i. 19). Much has been lost and dispersed. 



s For the coin of 'Augustus' see Nottingham Daily Express, 21 Aug. 1903 ; for that of Vespasian, 

 Pegge, p. 39 ; for the rest, Mr. Garstang's report, Derb. Arch. Journ. xxvi. 



4 The only uncertainties are in line 6, where the names of the prefect must be conjectured. The 

 letter before P might be V or A ; for Fuscus, Priscus is an equally possible supplement. The last letter 

 may be E pr<e(fecti), or F fra(e)/(ecto), but seems to me F. 



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