194 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



leaving it a little to the left.* It was square, with a double 

 vallum, and Dr. Pegge tells us that Sir Edward Wilmot said he 

 had seen a Roman coin found in it.t It was probably a small 

 station to guard the makers of the Rykneld Street, and may after- 

 wards have been used as a mansio on that road. No foundations 

 of buildings, etc., appear to have been found. 



There were formerly some remains of a Roman camp at 

 Breadsall, % but they appear to have been obliterated in late years, 

 for I could neither see nor hear anything of them. 



A large square entrenchment, believed to be Roman, formerly 

 existed just below Mosborough Hall, near Eckington, but was, 

 even sixty years since, almost obliterated by the plough, and is 

 now barely traceable by an expert. It was close to the line of the 

 Rykneld Street. Another and smaller one on the line of the same 

 road was lately (if not still) visible on the hill west of Eckington 

 Church .§ 



Dr. Pegge asserted that looking down upon the village of 

 Castleton from the hill above, he could make out the form of a 

 Roman camp in the gardens, etc., but the Bishop of Cloyne could 

 not detect it, and thought that if any entrenchment had existed it 

 would be British. || 



Another camp, once supposed to have been Roman, is that on 

 the north-western spur of Comb's Moss, just above Bank Hall, 

 in the latter parish, first described by Major Rooke.J It is, 

 however, evident from its form that it is not of Roman origin, 

 as the Bishop of Cloyne was the first to point out. From the 

 vallum being formed of mixed stones and earth, it is probably of 

 British origin. 



In the Reliquary** there is an account of what is supposed to 

 be aBritanno-Roman chariot racecourse, "one of the Rhedagua," 

 by a Mr. W. Bennett, who says, " At the distance of half a mile 



* See last reference. t Bib. Top. Brit., part xxiv., p. 26. 



J Lewis's Top. Diet., article "Breadsall." 



§ For reference to these camps see Glover's History of Derbyshire, vol. i. , 

 p. 289, and Bateman's Vestiges, etc., p. 189. 

 || Magna Britannia, vol. v., p. cexviii. 

 IT Archceologia, vol. ix., p. 139. ** Vol. i., p. 96. 



