ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 191 



amphorae, mortaria, and other Roman household vessels were 

 found, also two third brass coins, one of Tetricus, the other of 

 Constantine II., with the reverse of the Wolf and Twins. In 1843, 

 in the same garden, another harp-shaped fibula of bronze was 

 turned up, which had been further ornamented by the introduction 

 of coloured stones or paste. In 1831 also, in repairing an old 

 cottage, a small Roman altar was found, propping up a beam. It 

 was sixteen inches in height, and six inches square, formed of the 

 fine sandstone of the neighbourhood, but was uninscribed, though 

 it has a recessed panel on all sides, with a plain base and capital. 

 The altar, candlestick, and two fibulas are engraved {Vestiges, 

 etc., p. 160) by Mr. Bateman, and are now with the rest of his 

 collection in the Sheffield Museum. On 10th November, 1848, 

 he found in a barrow at this place several pieces of Britanno- 

 Roman pottery, and a brass coin of Constantius Chlorus, with the 

 reverse VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC. PERP. 



The ancient mining settlement at Oker Hill, Darley-in-the-Dale, 

 where an uninscribed pig of lead, third brass coins of Gallienus, 

 Postumus, Tetricus, Claudius Gothicus, and other Roman remains 

 were found, I incidentally alluded to in my last paper.* 



At Upper Haddon, again, there are evidences of a settlement. 

 Numerous pieces of Roman pottery, chiefly of mortaria, were 

 found in 1826, with a few coins of Constantine the Great and his 

 son Crispus.t Since then numerous human bones, with traces of 

 decayed wood, fragments of pottery, a portion of a glass vessel, 

 with a large number of coins, chiefly third brass of Constantine, 

 Constans, Constantius II., Valentinian, Valens, and Gratian, have 

 been found in Haddon Field.J 



Somewhere adjoining the large British sepulchral low or mound, 

 called " Minning Low," there appears to have been, in the time of 

 the Lower Empire, a Britanno-Roman settlement, for in July, 

 1849, Mr. Bateman found in it numerous pieces of Britanno- 

 Roman pottery (apparently broken sepulchral urns), and three 



' Derbyshire Archceological and Natural History Society's Journal, vol. vii. 

 t Bateman's Vestiges, etc., p. 159. 

 % LI. Jewitt in Intellectual Observer, Dec, 1867, p. 347- 



