roman minor settlements, etc. 1 93 



Temporary Camps. 



The temporary camps are few in number. The first to be 

 noticed is that at Lombard's Green, about half-a-mile north of 

 Parwich, and two-and-a-half miles to the west of the Roman road 

 from Buxton to Little Chester, with which, so far as can be seen, 

 it had no communication. Mr. Pilkington says it was oblong in 

 form (the Bishop of Cloyne says it was square), and about half an 

 acre in extent. It is now almost obliterated, so much so that the 

 Ordnance Survey takes no notice of it. Mr. Pilkington says that 

 the camp consisted of several divisions made by walls, the founda- 

 tions of which were in many parts still visible, but the size and 

 shape of the divisions were various, some being oblong, some 

 semi-circular, and some square. They were about twelve in 

 number, but there might formerly have been more, for those 

 remaining did not all lie together; the ground, however, had 

 previously been disturbed by miners in pursuing veins of lead. 

 The camp was on a level piece of ground, near the summit of arN 

 eminence. Near it, and at the summit of the hill, was a bank 

 extending two miles to the west, and half-a-mile to the east, about 

 two feet high, and three feet broad, and about four hundred yards 

 below it, another bank ran along the side of the hill for half-a-mile 

 to the west, nearly parallel with the other. No single Roman coins 

 have been found scattered within the area of this camp, which 

 made the Bishop of Cloyne doubtful as to its origin, though an 

 urn containing a number of coins, as will be described eventually, 

 has been discovered.* The first bank named is of uncertain use ; 

 but other Roman camps show occasionally the same feature ; it 

 seems too small to be a road. The Bishop says that on one side 

 it ran straight to the Ashborne Road, and to a pool of water on 

 the other. It was probably a camp to guard the road makers, 

 though somewhat distant, and afterwards used as a vicus. 



Another camp, of a similar nature, and likewise all but 

 obliterated, is at Castle Hill, near Pentrich, the Rykneld Street 



* Pilkington's View of the Present State of Derbyshire, vol. ii., p. 284. 

 Magna Britannia, vol. v., p. ccxvii. 



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