ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC 203 



wrote his manuscript history of the county (17 12), had an 

 urn and coins of the Roman period which had been there 

 discovered."* 



" Two hundred copper coins, principally of the Lower Empire, 

 were discovered in a perforated rock called Scarthen Nick, close 

 to Cromford; many of them were in fine preservation. "+ {Ibid., 



p. 158.) 



" In the year 1814, some stone getters in Eyam Dale found a 

 considerable number of denarii and small brass coins, mostly of 

 Gallienus, Victorinus, and Probus. Towards the close of the last 

 century a copper coin of Probus was found on Eyam Moor, and 

 more recently a posthumous coin of Claudius (Gothicus), Obv. 

 DIVO CLAVDIO., Rev. CONSECRATIO, an eagle, has been 

 discovered in Eyam Dale." (Ibid., p. 158.) 



Bateman also states, p. 158, that Glover in his History, etc., 

 says, that an aureus of Augustus was found near Belper, but I 

 cannot find any reference to this in the latter work. 



At Bolsover, in 1845, a small brass coin of Victorinus was 

 discovered, together with another of Constantius II.J 



A coin of Claudius Gothicus was found in the parish of 

 Staveley ; a very fine and perfect brass coin of Commodus, in 

 Chatsworth Park (which was given by Dr. Pegge to the Duke of 

 Devonshire) ; and several at Barlborough, the seat of the Rhodes 

 family.§ 



Roman coins have also been found near Cubley,|| and of those 

 found singly in the large stations, I have spoken of more or 

 less in my last paper. It would be almost impossible in 

 the limits of this essay to describe them in extenso. But 

 before leaving this subject, there is one other hoard to 

 which I must allude, and with regard to which there seems 

 to be very contradictory evidence, unless two different dis- 

 coveries are alluded to. Mr. Pilkington in his "View of the 



•Bateman, Vestiges, etc. , p. 158. 



+ Glover in his History of Derbyshire, vol. I. p. 316, was the first to notice 

 this find. He says, " They are now in the possession of Charles Hurt, jun., 

 Esq., of Wirksworth." . 



% Bateman, Vestiges, p. 160. § Arachologia, vol. x., p. 30. 



i| Journal Brit. Archl. Assn., vol. 7, p. 184. 



