A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



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DUFFIELD CASTLB. 



The numerous traces of the holding of this site by the Romans have been 

 dealt with in the article on Roman Remains. 



Trenches that were cut at D, E, and F, as marked on the plan, 

 exposed, in each instance, some two feet below the surface, charred wood 

 and black ash, pointing to the burning of a stockade on this line, 

 possibly when the Danes attacked the site in the tenth century. A large 

 variety of Anglo-Saxon finds came to light on the top of the mound at 

 some little depth, particularly in the deep trench marked A, B, C ; they 



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