196 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



was written about 1663, and after mentioning the coins found 

 at Little Chester (named in my former paper), he says at F° 

 201, ''But I would not have every place where such coine is 

 found to be a garrison ; for then why not Chadston (now called 

 Chaddesden, W.T.W.), a neighbouring town where greate plentie 

 have beene turned up, in y e custodie of M. R. W. Lorde of 

 y e soile ? " Although I should infer from the terms used that 

 these coins were found singly rather than in a hoard, as there 

 is no precise evidence of the fact, and as coins solely (without 

 other remains) are named, I have thought it as well to embrace 

 them in the list of known discoveries of hoards. 



In Gough's Camden's Britannia (edit. 1806), Vol. II., p. 418, 

 it is said, "At Ripley, an estate of the Duke of Devonshire, 

 in Morleston Hundred, was found, 1730, an urn full of coins of 

 Gallienus, Carausius, Victorinus, etc." The information is 

 taken from the Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries. 



In 1736 another hoard was discovered at Wirksworth, but 

 no particulars of it appear to have been preserved.* 



In 1740, an urn filled with denarii was dug up in Greenhaigh 

 (or Greenhill) Lane in the parish of Alfreton, in a hedge 

 bottom, f and this was but the prelude to a much larger dis- 

 covery in the same neighbourhood. The latter occurred on 

 20 th Sept., 1748, when two labourers in making a drain on a 

 farm called " New Grounds," found a large number of silver 

 coins (denarii). \ They were first seen as slaty coloured lumps, 

 and had probably been in urns which had become broken or 

 decayed, as they were only about three inches below the grass 

 level ; but one urn was found entire with the coins remaining 

 in it. From 1500 to 1600 coins were estimated to be in th\s trou- 

 vaille. Large numbers of people were attracted to the spot when 



* Lewis Top. Diet, of England, article "Wirksworth." 



f Lyson's Magna Britannia, Vol. v., p. ccvii. ; Archceologia, vo\. x., p. 30 ; 

 Bib. Top. Brit., Pt. xxiv., p. 26 ; Glover's AY.^. of Derbyshire, i., p. 297; 

 Bateman's Vestiges of 'the Antiquities of Derbyshire, p. 157. 



% J. Reynold's MS. Collections. Lyson's Magna Britannia, Vol. v., 

 p. ccvii. Lewis's Top. Diet., article " Greenhill Lane." Glover's Hist, of 

 Derbyshire, vol. i., p. 297. Bateman's Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derby- 

 shire, p. 157. 



