ANGLO-SAXON 

 REMAINS 



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Derbyshire remains which come under the present head, 

 consisting of grave-mounds, earth-works and other visible 

 monuments, are few compared with the magnificent pre-historic 

 array, but perhaps not relatively fewer, when we consider how 

 much shorter was their period. They may indeed have been relatively 

 more numerous, for as a rule they are of less enduring character ; hence 

 it is that some of the most important discoveries have been accidentally 

 made, there being nothing left above ground to mark their presence. 



The literature of these remains in Derbyshire is correspondingly 

 scanty. Here, as before, we are greatly indebted to the spade and pen 

 of Mr. Thomas Bateman, F.S.A., for information. In his Vestiges of the 

 Antiquities of Derbyshire, which appeared in 1848, he recounted all the 

 discoveries of the class which were then known to him barely a dozen 

 barrow-burials, of which six had been opened by himself. Of those 

 which had been opened before his time, two rank among the most 

 notable discoveries of the sort made in the county the one, a barrow 

 known as White-low near Winster, destroyed by labourers in 1756 or 

 1757, and originally described by Mr. John Manders of Bakewell 1 ; the 

 other, a similar barrow on the Garratt Piece, Middleton Moor, also de- 

 stroyed by labourers in 1788, and described by the Rev. Dr. Samuel 

 Pegge, F.S.A. 3 Both yielded many objects of rare interest, which may 

 now be seen in the Sheffield Museum. In his next book, Ten Tears' 

 Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave-bills, Mr. Bateman described a larger 

 number of these interments, all opened by himself and Mr. Samuel 

 Carrington between the years 1848 and 1861, mostly in the western 

 part of the county. In the appended notes of Mr. John Wilson of 

 Broomhead Hall, is a reference to the opening of a barrow, Bole or 

 Bone-low near Derwent Chapel in 1780, when three or four cinerary 

 urns were found, which, to judge from the small woodcut given of one, 

 belonged to this period. 



In 1863 and 1865 Mr. John F. Lucas, whose name has been men- 

 tioned in connection with the pre-historic remains, excavated a large 

 Bronze-age barrow known as Bower's-low near Tissington, which con- 

 tained an important ' Saxon' interment.* Several years later, in 1867, a 



1 Arch. iii. 274. ' Ibid. ix. 189. 3 Reliquary, iv. 165. 



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