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Moor, in Crich Common, Jan. 9th, 1788, they found in digging 

 the surface two or three pieces of Roman coin, which they 

 judged to be silver, and looking round with attention they 

 observed an earthern pot, the upper side lying level with the 

 surface of the ground ; the pot was broken into many pieces, 

 and as supposed by the wheel of a carriage passing over it 

 many years ago. Its shape, however, might be ascertained, 

 which they described to me to be widest in the middle with a 

 long narrow neck about an inch in diameter, and they thought 

 it might contain about two quarts. They found it full of coins, 

 which mouldered away in their hands, except nine or ten, and 

 these by rubbing and pinching with their fingers they broke, all 

 but two or three. Of these last I have not seen any, of the 

 others I procured three fragments of two coins. One is of 

 Gordianus III., the head with a radiated diadem. The other 

 is a fragment of Philip the younger. These coins appear to be 

 of copper or iron covered with tin."* 



In a lead mine adjoining to Crich, it is said that coins of 

 Hadrian and Diocletian, have been discovered, t leading to the 

 inference that lead ore was obtained here as well as in the 

 Wirksworth neighbourhood. 



In 1770 a labouring man found a large number of denarii 

 at Stuffynwood, near Pleasley, which being only about a mile 

 to the north of the villa discovered by Major Rooke at 

 Mansfield Woodhouse, the hoard may probably have been 

 concealed by one of the residents there, on the occasion of 

 some feared sudden attack, Unfortunately, no particulars are 

 given as to the dates of the coins ; the finder sold them to a 

 person at Mansfield for £$. A Mr. Martin, a farmer at 

 Pleasley, had in 1788 three more Roman coins found at the 

 same place, according to the information of Rev. Chaworth 

 Hallowes, Rector of Pleasley. X 



* See also Magna Britannia, vol. v., p. ccvii. Glover's Hist, of Derbyshire, 

 vol. 1, p. 297, and Bateman's Vestiges, etc., p. 158. 



t Lewis' Top. Did., article "Crich." 



X Dr. Pegge in Archceologia, vol. x., p. 30. Magna Britannia, v., p. ccvii., 

 etc. 



