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about 10 feet square,* built of unhewn grit stone, and without 

 mortar. Within it were several pieces of charcoal, and fragments 

 of small tiles were found both inside and outside the building, 

 some of which had turned up edges, and all appeared to have been 

 acted upon by fire. Several Roman coins were found within the 

 area, some lying singly, others in lumps of three or four stuck to- 

 gether, which generally crumbled to dust on being separated. He 

 only describes the obverse of two. Of these, one is of Postumus, 

 the other of Victorinus, the reverses of both were illegible. 



I should opine from the description that the building had been 

 destroyed by fire, that the coins had fallen from above with the 

 burnt woodwork, which would account for their being scattered ; 

 and their brittleness, of course, would be from being heated, etc. 



The second discovery near Crich was made in 1772, when a 

 farmer, in clearing away a heap of stones in a close in his occupa- 

 tion, lying south of Fritchley, in Crich parish, found a number of 

 small third brass coins lying together amongst small loose stones. 

 Mr. Reynolds secured eight of these, but six of them were quite 

 illegible. Of the other two, one was of Gallienus, with the reverse 

 obliterated, the other of Tetricus, with the legend on the reverse 

 gone, though a standing figure was visible.t 



The third Crich discovery took place on the 9th of March, 

 1778, and, like the last, the coins were found in removing a heap 

 of stones, by two labourers in Culland Park. Under the heap a 

 large flat stone was come upon lying upon two others set on 

 edge, and beneath was a vessel of pottery containing about 700 

 Roman brass coins,:}: which appear from the statement that some 

 were " as big again" as the others, to have been fo//es and third 

 brass. The pot was broken to pieces, and the men sold the 

 money. Mr. Reynolds secured 1 5 , which were as follows :— 



*J. Reynolds' MS., Archceolo&a, vol. x., p. 31. Lyson's Magna Britannia, 

 vol. v., p. ccvii. Glover's Derbyshire, i., p. 297. Bateman's Vestiges, etc., 

 p. 158. 



t See same vols, and pages as in the case of the previous find. Bateman 

 in Vestiges, p. 158, says that some of these coins were silver, but they were 

 mostly of copper (i.e., brass), and that Reynolds in 1778 had nine silver and 

 eight copper ones from this hoard. 



X]. Reynolds' MS., Magna Brittannia, vol. v., p. ccvii. Ardxeologia, 

 vol. x., p. 31. Glover's History of Derbyshire, vol. 1., p. 297. Bateman s 

 Vestiges, etc., p. 158. 



