ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE 



bones, lead ' spindle whorl,' iron spearhead, copper button, and (according to one 

 account) a Roman coin, since lost. [Notts, and Derb. N. and Q. vi. 57 ; letter from 

 Mr. W. H. Salt ; spearhead and ' whorl ' in Buxton Museum.] Date of the remains 

 doubtful ; the 'whorl' especially does not look to me Roman. 



In the village, in 1896-8, circular chambers, taken to be Roman, but apparently 

 bakers' ovens of recent date [Leader, Proc. Soc.Antiq. xvi. 95 ; Sheffield Telegraph, 2O Jan. 

 1896, Sheffield Week. 14 May, 1898, and other local papers]. Fig. 43. 



The Grey Ditch, between Bradwell and Brough (see fig. 8), has been lately called 

 Roman (Barns, North Staffordshire Field Club, xxxvi). But it is not Roman, and the 

 whole theory with which it has been connected is, in my judgment, wrong. 



BRASSINGTON. Pegge records iron knife, potsherds, etc., found on Mr. Cell's estate (Arch. 

 x. 30). Ward records potsherds, broken bones, charcoal, bit of red ochre, etc., dug up 

 in 1889 on Harborough Rocks, which he takes to be British of Roman date (Reliquary, 

 iii. 2 1 6, Derb. Arch. Journ. xii. 108). But it is very doubtful whether either find can be 

 ascribed to the Roman period. A Roman coin is said to have once been picked up 

 hereabouts. For Rainster Rocks, see Rainster. 



BREADSALL. Alleged camp, Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 194 (with a misreference) ; 

 apparently no good evidence for it exists. 



BROUGH. Fort, p. 201. 



BRUNDCLIFFE. See Hartington. 



BURTON WOOD. Hoard of some 70 coins, chiefly ' Adriaa, Severus, Constantine the Younger,' 

 found 'within the boundaries of a spacious Roman camp' [Gentleman's Magazine, 1784 

 (ii.), 791: hence Lysons, p. ccviii ; Glover, i. 297; Bateman, Vestiges, p. 158; 

 Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 204]. Burton Wood is said in the G.M. to be 4 miles 

 from Ashbourne, but I have wholly failed to trace it. Watkin thinks that the account 

 refers to the Parwich hoard. 



BUXTON. Baths, village, p. 222. 



Near Buxton : ' Third Brass ' coins of Constantine (Bateman, Vestiges, p. 151). 



CARLSWARK (Hathersage parish). Near Carlswark cave in 1867 ' in clearing the rock from 

 gravel and soil' at a depth of 8 feet (as is alleged), a pair of bracelets of base silver alloyed 

 with copper. [Reliquary, viii. (1867), 113 : hence, briefly, Intellectual Observer, xii. 347, 

 and Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 205.] A very similar pair was found with coins of 

 circa 160 A.D. in an urn at Castle Thorpe, in Buckinghamshire, Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ, 

 ii. 353 (with a not quite correct illustration) ; a similar one with coins of the same date 

 was found near Backworth in Northumberland, see Arch. Journ. viii. 39. Fig. 50. 

 This type occurs at Pompeii and seems Italian, not Celtic. 



CASTLETON. Lead pig (perhaps due to error), p. 232. 



The bricks in Peak Castle seen by Pegge (Sketch of Peak and Bolsover, p. 1 3) can 

 hardly be Roman unless brought from Brough. Pegge writes dubiously. The camp on 

 Mam Tor is equally un-Roman. The camp which Pegge thought to see in the gardens 

 at Castleton seems to have been mere imagination [Bennet, cited by Lysons, p. ccxviii]. 



CHADDESDEN. Coins; see quotation from Kinder's Hist, on p. 216. 



CHAPEL EN LE FRITH. The ' Roosdyche ' near Whaley Bridge, an alleged racecourse, ' one 

 of the Rhedagua,' [Reliquary, i. 96 ; Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xix. 43 ; Leyland, 

 Peak, p. 317 ; Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 195]. Not Roman; no remains have been found 

 there, and the ' Rhedagua ' themselves are quite fictitious. 



CHATSWORTH. A 'fine brass coin of Commodus ' found in the park [Arch. x. 31, hence 

 Watkin, etc.]. Mrs. S. Arthur Strong tells me that the Chatsworth collections comprise 

 nothing Romano-British. 



CHELMORTON. In Great Low barrow, potsherd found 1849, considered Romano-British by 

 Bateman (Diggings, p. 51), but doubtful. 



CHESTERFIELD. Called a Roman ' station,' by name Lutudarum, by Baxter, Glossarium (s.v. 

 Lutudarum), Salmon, Survey, ii. 542, Pegge, p. 30, who places the precise site at Tapton 

 Castle, a mile north-east of the town across the Rother. But Lutudarum is elsewhere 

 (p. 228), and it is not certain that Chesterfield was a Roman site. Its name is ancient, 

 and the first half generally (if not invariably) denotes Roman occupation. But that need 

 not have been at the present town. The name 'Chesterfield' means the field or region 

 round the ' Chester,' and this may have been a little way off. Lichfield similarly means 

 the place in the field or region of Letocetum (now Wall) 2 miles distant. Unfortunately 

 no remains have been recorded to decide the question. Nothing has been found at 



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