184 ROMA.N BROUGH : = ANAVIO. 



twenty years ago in this Journal. * The more significant items 

 may be repeated. In 1761 there seems to have been found a 

 gold coin of Vespasian (Cos. III.) ; " urns " have been found " on 

 the other side of the river," indications possibly of the cemetery ; 

 and the letters COH seem to have occurred more than once on 

 tiles or similar relics. Other objects of some interest are " a 

 rude bust of Apollo " in stone, and a large rough stone, in the 

 bending hollow of one side of which was the half length of a 

 woman crossing her hands on her breast,f the whole possibly 

 an altar; I pieces of "swords, spears, bridle, bits, and coins," 

 and a tesselated pavement, white and red. § 



To sum up, the appearance of the field suggested a military 

 enclosure — a Roman fort. The position is a favourite one, at 

 the junction of two streams, and the regular form of the ar«a 

 conforms with these indications. The rampart is traceable 

 along the four sides of a square with rounded corners, and in 

 the central upper position was some sign of a large building in 

 the turf." The objects found in past time in the vicinity — altars, 

 stamped tiles, pottery, moulded stones — are the usual accom- 

 paniment to such military strongholds. Though upon the 

 southern border of the military frontier, there is still little sign 

 of luxury or civil settlement. 



There is another fact strongly pointing to this position and 

 character for Roman Brough. The milestone found near the 

 Silverlands in Higher Buxton, now the property of this Society 

 and lent to the Buxton Museum, records the distance between 

 some point and a place named Anavio as being X or XII miles. 

 Assuming that the stone, when found, was lying near its original 

 standing place, this distance would coincide, along the Batham 

 Gate, with the position of Brough, and there is little reason 

 to doubt, from a study of the map of this district, that Anavio 



* Vol. vii., p. 79, of this Journal. 



■\Jour. Derb. Arch. Soc, vii., 18S5, p. 79 et seq. 



% See the curious woodcut of this figure in Bateman's Te7i Years' 1 Diggings, 

 p. 252. 



§ It would be a definite service to archseology if some members of the Society 

 were to ascertain the whereabouts of these remains. 



