202 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



In 1838 in removing the soil near to a stone quarry in Hooley 

 Wood in Padfield, about a mile N.E. of Melandra Castle, a large 

 number of coins in billon (or base silver) were found. Only five 

 were taken particular notice of, and those were three of Alexander 

 Severus, and two of Julia Maesa. They were, in 1851, in the 

 possession of Messrs. W. and J. Sidebottom, of Tintwistle, since 

 deceased, and their present representatives know nothing of the 

 coins.* 



In October, 1876, a workman employed by Messrs. W. and S. 

 Burkitt, maltsters, of Chesterfield, in laying down water pipes 

 from Scarcliffe to a malthouse at Langwith, whilst digging a 

 trench, came upon, at about two feet deep, a large Roman 

 earthenware vase, which he broke open, and it was found to be 

 nearly full of coins, probably from 250 to 300, but they appear 

 to have been dispersed. From a sample of about fifty, seen by 

 several antiquaries, they appear to be in good preservation, and 

 were third brass, those seen being of Gullienus, Victorinus, 

 Tetricus, and Claudius Gothicus. 



The Rev. J. C. Cox informs me that many years since the late 

 Mr. Joseph Goodwin, of Hazelwood, found, in removing some 

 stones at the base of a wall fence, near to where the Rifle Butts 

 now stand, on the Chevin, nine Roman coins. Dr. Cox saw the 

 coins in 1868, but did not examine them minutely. He tells me 

 that on two the name ANTONINVS was visible, and on three 

 others AVG could be made out, but they were nearly illegible, 

 and he cannot speak as to their size. In 1873, however, he 

 himself found a coin of Victorinus (third brass) on the surface of 

 the ground, in a field on the right hand side of the wood leading 

 from Hazelwood to Shottlegate. The reverse was illegible. It 

 may probably have been placed in a sepulchral urn (which had 

 been broken and gone to decay), with the ashes of a deceased 

 person. 



" Mr. Pegge, who resided at Fenny Bentley at the time Wolley 



* Journal Brit. Archl. Assoc, vol. vii., p. 19, and private information from 

 Mr. James Sidebottom, iun. 



