A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



Tapton or elsewhere near Chesterfield except some Samian potsherds from Walton, 



2 miles S.W., now in the Derby Museum. Chesterfield itself has yielded little. Six 

 coins are recorded a ' Second Bronze ' of Claudius, found 1720 near the marketplace, and 

 a ' Third Bronze ' of Valerian, cited by Pegge, p. 29 ; a denarius of Trajan (High st. 1832), 

 and a 'Second Bronze 'of the same (All Saints' churchyard, 1822); a 'Second Bronze' of 

 Maximian (bottom of Lord's Mill St.), and a ' Third Bronze ' ' Constantinopolis ' (High st. 

 1820), cited in Ford's Hist, of Chesterfield (Chest. 1837), p. 10; the last-named coin 

 is also given by Pendleton, Hist, of Derb. p. 233. Besides these Pegge mentions two urns 

 from the marketplace (Bateman, Vestiges, p. 1 64), and the Derby Museum has rude sherds 

 from Trinity churchyard (Reliquary, vii. (1893) 7), which, however, are not certainly 

 Roman. The idea of a stone Romano-British Christian church at Chesterfield is to be 

 rejected entirely (Pym Yeatman, Feudal Hist, of Derb. ii. 248). 



It is generally assumed that a Roman road ran through or very near the town, but 

 this, though quite possible, lacks proper evidence (p. 245). 

 COMBS or COOMBS Moss. The ' cliff castle ' here, 



3 miles N. of Buxton, called Roman in Arch. 

 ix. 139, x. 29, is not Roman. But the site may 

 have been occasionally occupied in Roman times. 

 Dr. Cox states that in 1873, he picked up there 

 a coin of Constantine the Great and some Roman 

 potsherds. 



COWLOW. In a barrow 3 miles east of Buxton, 

 opened 1846, three interments. The second 

 in date was a cist with female bones and two 

 Kimmeridge clay necklaces, somewhat of Romano- 

 British pattern, and called Roman by Roach 

 Smith, but really much earlier, belonging to the 

 Bronze Age. The third in date, taken by Bate- 

 man to be Roman, is probably later [Bateman, 

 Vestiges, p. 92, C. R. Smith, Cell. Ant. v. 147, 

 both with illustr. hence fig. 44]. See p. 263. 



CRESSWELL CRAGS. Cave, see p. 236. 



CRICH. Here several finds have been made on high 

 ground east of the Derwent and between that 

 river and the Amber. Old lead-workings also 

 abound here. 



(1) On the south side of Crich cliff, near 

 the summit called Parson's Nab, found 26 July 

 1761, a building 10 feet square, of unmortared 

 and undressed gritstone ; inside were charcoal, 

 tiles (apparently some flanged), and many coins, 

 some lying singly, some in lumps, 3 were of 

 'hard white metal,' i.e. billon (i Victorinus, 

 I Postumus, I illegible), and the rest copper, all 

 illegible, but presumably of the same date, the 

 third quarter of the third century. [Notebook 

 of John Reynolds printed Derb. Arch. Journ. 

 viii. 226 ; snorter notices Arch. x. 31, Lysons, 

 p. ccviii. Bateman, Vestiges, p. 158, Watkin, etc.] 



(2) Between Fritchley and the Bull Bridge over the Amber, found 1772, some 

 'Third Brass' of the same date as No. I, and possibly others. Reynolds's Notebook 

 (Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 227) mentions ' Roman coin, chiefly small ones of copper,' of 

 which in 1778 he had i Gallienus, i Tetricus, and 6 others illegible. Bateman (Ves- 

 tiges, p. 158) says Reynolds had in 1778 9 silver and 8 copper, but this seems a misprint 

 for '9, I silver and 8 copper.' Reynolds's MS. (B. M. Add. 6705, fo. 105) mentions 

 i silver of Pius cos. iiii. as well as I Tetricus, and I Victorinus. The inclusion of second- 

 century silver in a hoard of 'Third Brass' of about A.D. 250-270 is very uncommon, 

 and there is probably some error. (Only brief ref. in Arch. x. 31, Lysons, etc.) 



(3) In Culland Park, found, 9 March 1778, lying under a flat stone, an urn contain- 

 ing some 700 coins ; 46 seen were of Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus, 



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FIG. 44. JET NECKLACES FROM COWLOW. 

 (Bateman, Vestiges, p. 92.) 



