192 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



third brass coins, one of Constantine the Great, having the reverse 

 GLORIA EXERCIT VS, two soldiers with two standards between 

 them; another of Constantius II., with the same reverse, and a 

 third illegible. In September, 1850, he found in the same place 

 two more third brass coins of Constantine II., with the same 

 reverses as those given above. More interments have since been 

 found. Mr. Jewitt says* — "At Minning Low * * *, where 

 several interments of the Romano-British period have undoubtedly- 

 been made in the earlier Celtic mound, many Roman coins, along 

 with portions of sepulchral urns, etc., have from time to time been 

 found. These are principally of Claudius Gothicus, Constantine 

 the Great, Constantine jun., Valentinian, and Constantius II." 



The celebrated " Poole's Cavern " seems to have been in the 

 earlier part of the Roman period, either a refuge for some of the 

 belligerent Britons, or the dwelling place of some of them who 

 would not adopt the usages of civilisation, for beneath the stalag- 

 mite, etc., when removed by the proprietor in 1865 and subsequent 

 years, were found, mixed with bones, animal and human, flints and 

 charcoal, a large number of pieces of Roman pottery, one bearing 

 the potter's name in the usual manner, many coins, two of which 

 are said to have been of Trajan, and a very fine fibula. + 



Many foundations of buildings, supposed to have been Roman, 

 but this is not certain, were found " in Hufton Hall Field, which 

 is but just across the road (from Linbury), as Mr. Jonathan 

 Kendal informs me." This place is called "Ufton" by the 

 Bishop of Cloyne, and is so marked on the Ordnance Map. It is 

 situated a little more than half-a-mile to the north-west of Alfreton. 



From the fact of a Roman urn, surrounded with stones, and 

 filled with ashes, amongst which were two Roman coins (one of 

 Maximianus), having been found near Bole Hill, Eyam,J combined 

 with other discoveries of single coins, and also of a hoard (to be 

 described hereafter), it is evident that some small Roman colony 

 was resident in the neighbourhood. 



* Intellectual Observer, Dec, 1867, p. 347. 



t Antiquary, August, 1883. 



% Bateman's Vestiges, etc., p. 114. 



