ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE 



But that (according to our present knowledge) did not serve in Britain. 

 Hassencamp suggested the Cohors iv Breucorum, known to have been in 

 garrison at Slack (Cambodunum) near Huddersfield. But that involves a 

 violent alteration of the one copy which we possess of the lettering. In 

 any case we must not, with several English writers, expand LV BRIT into 

 ' Lutudarensian Britons.' That conjecture violates the invariable order 

 of the words, and must be regarded as most unlikely. It must be added 

 that, at the time when this stone was found, a Mr. Cell was a prominent 

 landowner and roadmaker in the district. The letters CELL therefore give 

 rise to some suspicion either of forgery or of misreading. 



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FIG. 42. INSCRIBED FRAGMENT FROM HOPTON. 



The fragment has, of course, no connexion with the burial with 

 which it was found. It was plainly torn from some earlier monument 

 to provide a cover for the sepulchral urn. What the earlier monument 

 was, whether a dedication like the Haddon altar, we have no chance of 

 deciding. 



INDEX 



ALDERWASLEY. Samian potsherd found between Blackbrook and Knave's cross, Derb. Arch. 

 Journ. viii. 214, note. 



AJ.FRETON (half-way between Derby and Chesterfield, a mile east of Rycknield Street). At 

 Greenhaigh or Greenhill Lane, 2 miles south of the village, a large hoard found 

 September, 1748, in boggy ground on the 'Lower Close' of New Grounds Farm 

 (probably that now called Newlands). It contained some 2,000 denarii, part in an 

 earthen pot, part scattered round ; Reynolds saw 2,000-3,000, which ranged from Vespasian 

 to Sept. Severus. For this type of hoard see Arcbtcologia, liv. 489 foil. [Notebook of a 

 contemporary local antiquary, John Reynolds, of Plaistow, printed Derb. Arch. Journ. 

 viii. 216: compare his MS. in B. M. Add. 6,708. Brief notices by Pegge, Roads 

 Through the Coritani, p. 29, and Archteologia, x. 30 ; Pilkington, ii. 320 ; Lysons, p. ccvii ; 

 Glover, i. 297 ; Bateman, prestiges, p. 157 ; Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 196, etc. 

 Pegge gives the date as 1 740 ; hence his successors, from Lysons onwards, have imagined 

 two hoards, one found 1740 and one found 1748. But it is pretty plain that he merely 

 put the date down wrong. The hoard mentioned Minutes Soc. Antiq., 9 February, 1 748-9 

 (v. 212), seems to be this ; the number of coins is there given as 3,000.] 



Stukeley in his Diary, 18 October, 1754 (Surtees Soc. 76, p. 117), mentions * silver 

 coins lately found by Alfreton,' among which i Faustina, I Geta, i Gordian. It is not 



