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W$t Eomatt Elinor Settlements, Camps, 

 Hiscobcrtes of eotus, &t. t an* $toatrs 

 in ll&ttbstfyixt. 



By W. Thompson Watkin. 



N my paper read to the Society last year, on " The 

 Roman Stations of Derbyshire," I mentioned that I 

 hoped on a future occasion to treat of the smaller 

 Roman settlements, temporary camps, roads, hoards of coin, and 

 miscellaneous remains, found within the county. The present 

 article is written with the view of accomplishing that hope. 



Small Settlements. 



The first named, the small settlements, are not very numerous. 

 They seem to have been the dwelling places of a native population 

 which had become Romanised, and even the foundations of their 

 dwellings have disappeared. We have, therefore, only interments 

 to guide us as to the localities, and these seem all more or less to 

 have been fixed upon with a view to mining. 



At Middleton-by-Youlgreave there seems to have been one of 

 the largest of these. In 1820 a bronze fibula was found in 

 excavating for a fish-pond. It was of the harp shape. In 

 1822, what was called by Mr. Bateman a bronze trident, but 

 which Mr. C. Roach Smith considers a candlestick (reversing its 

 position), was found in constructing a new line of road near the 

 above-named fish-pond. In 1827 a Roman bronze key was found 

 whilst planting an orchard. In 1 831, whilst converting some land 

 into a garden at the upper end of the village, many pieces of 



