A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



First published by S. Peggc, Archeeologia, ix. 45, from readings of Mason and Molesworth ; 

 hence Pilkington, i. 97, Davies, p. 75, Lysons, p. ccvi, Bateman, Watkin, Httbner, Corp. Insc. 

 Lot. vii. 121517, etc. The still current idea that this pig bears the name of the Emperor 

 Claudius is epigraphically impossible. 



7-10. Four similar pigs oflead were found in 182431 Broomers Hill, near Pulborough, in 

 Sussex, close to the Roman road called Stane Street. One is now at Parham, a second in the 

 British Museum : the other two, much worn when discovered, have not been preserved. The 

 British Museum specimen weighs 184 Ibs. and measures at the top 4 by 4 inches, at 

 the bottom 6 by 23 inches and is 4! inches thick. It is inscribed only on the top. When 

 found all four were said to bear the same inscription : ICLTR PVT BREXARG. This 

 is obviously an imperfect reading of the lettering of No. 6. And the British Museum specimen 

 actually has ^CL T^ I.VT BR EX ARC. 



Gentleman's Magazine, 1824 (i.), 194, 320 hence Horsfield's Sussex, ii. 164, etc., 

 incorrectly : correctly, Way, Arch. Journal, xvi. 26, Httbner, Corp. Insc. Lot. vii. I2i5b. I 

 have examined the British Museum specimen. Fig. 30 (4). 



ii. Found in March 1894 face downwards about two feet beneath the surface, in the 

 course of inclosing and reclaiming common land at Portland Grange on Tansley Moor, 2 miles 

 north-east of Matlock, on high ground east of the Derwent valley. The surface round the 

 point of discovery is said to have seemed scooped into small hollows, showing the action of fire, 

 and it is suggested that these may have served for the melting of the lead. Now in the British 

 Museum. Weight I75lbs. ; dimensions 3^ by 19! inches at the top, 5^ by 22 J inches at the 

 bottom, thickness 4 inches. Inscribed only on the top (see fig. 31). 



P. Rubn Abaxantiy metalli Lutudare(n}s(is) 



Sheffield and Rather bam Independent, 17 April 1894, and other local papers ; Rev. Dr. Cox, 

 Proc. Soc.Antiq. xv. (1894), 1 85, and Antiquary, May 1894 ; myself, Proc. Sec. Antiq. xv. 188 ; 

 Bulmer, Topogr. Directory (1895), 414; Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. (1894), 183, and New 

 Series, vi. 34 (uncritical). I have examined the pig myself. The contraction Lutudares for 

 Lutudarensis need cause no surprise. An n is often omitted in such cases, and the last 

 syllable is frequently curtailed ; so, for example, AMES several times on inscriptions for 

 Aniensis. 



12. Found in 1846 on Oker Hill near Darley in the Dale, two miles north-west of 

 Matlock, on high ground west of the river Derwent, near ancient mineral works. No details 

 are recorded save that it was 'of the Roman shape.' Some 'Third Brass' coins of about 

 A.D. 250270 and other antiquities have been found in more or less the same locality. Bateman, 

 Vestiges, p. 159; hence Watkin, Derb. Arch. Jeurn. vii. 74. 



1 3. Found in July 1 894 in digging foundations for new Board School buildings at Bradwell ; 

 now in the Sheffield Museum (J. 96, i.). Weight I I2lbs. ; dimensions 2O inches long, 5^- wide 

 and 3 high. It is considerably worn, and the part which might have borne the inscription has 

 perished. But its shape and stratification mark it out as unquestionably Roman. The Roman 

 road from Buxton to Brought is only 250 yards away from the point of discovery, and old lead 

 workings exist in the immediate neighbourhood. It is therefore not easy to say whether the pig 

 was lost, for example, off a packhorse which had strayed from the road, or was smelted at the 

 place. Mentioned in print, Arch. Journ. lii. 33 ; Buxtan Chronicle, 25 January 1896 ; 

 Antiquary, xxx. (1898), 46. 



14. Said to have been found before 1802 near Castleton and to have been inscribed, but 

 only three letters were legible : IMP 



Published by John Phillips in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, I. 

 i, 89 (1849) : <a f urtn P'g is stated to have been found at Castleton on which only the letters 



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