ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE 



YOULGREAVE. At Conksbury Bridge, near river Lathkil, bronze fibula, animal and human 



bones, and an ornamented bone [Bateman, Diggings, p. 243]. 

 LOCALITY UNCERTAIN. The Minutes of the Soc. of Antiquaries for 9 February 1748-9 (v. 212) 



record the finding in Derbyshire of over 3,000 denarii, none older than Vespasian and 



none later than Severus. This seems to be the Alfreton find. 



APPENDIX I: THE NAME 'COLD HARBOUR' 



As I have stated in earlier volumes of the Victoria History (see especially Hampshire, i. 

 349), the connexion of the name ' Cold Harbour' with Roman sites seems to me to be wholly 

 unproven. It may be convenient to add here the Derbyshire evidence. The name occurs in 

 our county, so far as I can learn, four times. Cold Harbour Moor is two miles east of 

 Glossop and not far from the Roman road from Melandra to Brough. Cold Harbour Farm is 

 near New Mills and Hayfield (O.S. v. SE.) Cold Harbour Lane is near Dethick 

 (O.S. xxxv. NW.), a little south of Matlock. Lastly, there is a Cold Harbour near 

 Wormhill, two miles north-west of Miller's Dale (O.S. xv. SE.). No Roman objects are 

 recorded from any of these sites, beyond the road which skirts the first, and Derbyshire agrees 

 with the other counties which I have examined in suggesting no true connexion between Cold 

 Harbour and Roman occupation. What the true meaning of the name is, must, I fear, be left 

 doubtful. It is very common. But it does not (according to Mr. W. H. Stevenson) occur 

 in early documents, and even the period of its origin is uncertain. 



APPENDIX II : THE COWLOW AND WORMHILL NECKLACES 



I have included in the preceding list some jet necklaces found at Cowlow and Wormhill 

 which good judges have called Romano-British. There seems, however, to be little doubt 

 that they really belong to the Bronze Age. Both the shapes and the lozenge ornament 

 represented at Cowlow are typical of that period, and (as Mr. A. J. Evans tells me) though 

 they may date from its later years, they cannot be ascribed to any subsequent age. A similar 

 necklace was found with Bronze Age relics at Balcalk in Forfarshire and is now in the 

 Edinburgh Museum (EQ 219 : Catalogue, pp. 192-3, with illustr.). Another, of somewhat 

 different pattern, is assigned to a post-Roman period in Mortimer's Burial Mounds of East 

 Yorkshire, p. 353. 



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