ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE 



PENTRICH. Earthwork near Rycknield St., square with a double vallum ; a Roman coin is said 

 to have been found in it. Taken by many as a station of Richard of Cirencester's (that 

 is Bertram's) Itinerary between Little Chester and Chesterfield, but neither it nor 

 Richard deserve credence. [Pegge, Roads through Coritani, p. 26, hence Arch. x. 30, 

 Pilkington, ii. 317, Bennett cited by Lysons, p. ccxvii, Glover, etc.]. Watkin quite 

 arbitrarily asserts that ' it was probably a small station to guard the makers of the street, 

 and may afterwards have been used as a mansio on that road ' (Derb. Arch. Journ. vii. 

 194). There is no evidence to prove either conjecture. 



PIKEHALL (Hartington Nether Quarter). Bronze penannular fibula [Sheffield Mus. Catal. 

 p. 195]. Not necessarily Roman. 



PLEASLEY. At Stuffynwood, hoard of denarii found about 1770 and sold for 5. [Pegge, 

 Arch. x. 30 : hence Lysons, Reynolds, Bateman, Watkin, etc.] The Langwith hoard 

 was found about a mile north of this. 



POOLE'S CAVERN. See p. 235. 



PORTWAY MINE (O.S. ix. SE.). The name of this mine has been cited by Jewitt, Intel!. Observer, 

 xii. 343, and others, as indicating Roman occupation. But no Roman remains seem to 

 have been found, and the name (despite common opinion to the contrary) has no con- 

 nexion whatever with things Roman. 



RAINS CAVE. See p. 237. 



RAINSTER ROCKS (near Brassington). Irregular-shaped building of rough limestone walls, 

 2-3 feet thick, and dark grey and red potsherds (of which one ' unmistakeably Roman ') 

 found in 1889 by Mr. J. Ward in a pasture at the south foot of the Rocks. [Informa- 

 tion from Mr. Ward; brief note, Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. new series, vi. 17.] Rains 

 Cave and Harborough Rocks are near this site. 



REPTON. No Roman remains have been found here. The Historical MSS. Commission, 

 Report III. Appendix, p. 273, states that Roman pottery, beads, glass, horse-trappings, 

 and 20 silver coins were found here on authority of a letter of April 1709 in the 

 collection of Mr. Hamon L'Estrange of Hunstanton Hall. But Mr. L'Estrange tells 

 me that the name ' Repton ' has been misread : it should be Upton, near Southwell 

 (Notts). 



The name ' Repandunum,' adduced by Stebbing Shaw (Topographer, ii. 250), is not 

 a Romano-British name but a mere fiction. The small earthwork called 'the Buries' is 

 not likely to be Roman. 



RINGHAMLOW. See (i) Middleton by Youlgreave and (2) Monyash. The accounts of the 

 finds indicate two distinct lows of this name, though my maps and informants seem 

 only to know one, near Middleton (O.S. xxviii. SW.). 



RIPLEY. Urn full of coins of Gallienus, Victorinus, Carausius, etc. found in 1730. [Soc. 

 Ant. Minutes, 12 November 1730 = i. 251 : hence Cough's Add. to Camden, ii. 306, 

 Reynolds, Iter. p. 459, Watkin, etc.] 



RISLEY PARK. Large silver dish found in 1729 inscribed: Exsuperius episcopus ecclesiae 

 B...ensi, but too worn to be preserved intact [Stukeley, Account of Silver Plate ... found in 

 Derb. (London 1736) and Correspondence, ii. 114 (Surtees Soc. vol. 76), Soc. Antiq. 

 Minutes, ii. 165, 7 April 1736: hence Lysons, Arch. xvii. 85, etc.]. The dish 

 is figured by Stukeley, and is plainly Roman, 

 and most probably Roman of the first century. 

 But the inscription is medieval, and seems to 

 refer to Exsuperius, first bishop of Bayeux 

 (Baiocensis), who, perhaps, lived in the fifth 

 century. In all probability the dish was 

 brought to England during the early middle 

 ages. See Duchesne, Pastes tphcopaux de la 

 Gaule, ii. 218; G. Morin, in M/langes de 

 ffccole de Rome, xviii. 363, with illustration. 



ROBIN HOOD'S STRIDE. See Harthill Moor. 



SCARTHEN NICK. See Cromford. 



SHIPLEY. Hoard of coins found September 1890 

 in making the Great Northern branch line 

 from Ilkeston to Heanor. A large earthen 

 jar, n inches high by 9^ in greatest diameter F I G - S 2 - URN CONTAINING THE SHIPLEY 

 (fig. 52), contained many hundred coins of the HOARD. 



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