204 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



present state of Derbyshire," which was published about 1788, 

 says * 'About 20 years ago as a labouring man was seeking for 

 the above mineral (lead), he found at 2^ feet depth (in the camp 

 at Lombard's Green) a military weapon, some coins, and an urn 

 of very great thickness," in which the coins had probably originally 

 been placed. The coins were principally denarii, about 80 in 

 number, of which seventy-four were in the possession of Mr. Raw- 

 lins, of Ashbourne. He adds that they were of the Upper Empire 

 and ranged from the triumvirate of Octavius, Marcus Antonius, 

 and Lepidus, to as low as the Emperor Aurelian — (By the last 

 name he evidently must mean Marcus Aurelius.) He then adds 

 that those legible (in Mr. Rawlins' possession) were, of Nero 2, 

 Vespasian 5, Vitellius i, Domitian 5, Nerva 8, Trajan 15, Hadrian 

 15, Sabinus 1, Antonius 5, Lucilla 1, Aurelian 2, and 10 unknown. 

 Of these, Sabinus should certainly be Sabina the wife of Hadrian ; 

 I strongly suspect the 5 of Antonius are of Antoninus Pius, and 

 those of Aurelian should be of Marcus Aurelius, which would be 

 the latest coin, and from which, it may with comparative certainty 

 be inferred, that the hoard was concealed at the commencement 

 of the reign of Commodus, the successor of Aurelius, when a great 

 revolt against Rome broke out in Britain. 



Pegge, Glover, and Bateman all copy in one form or another 

 this account. 



In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1784, Part II., p. 791, a para- 

 graph occurs to the effect that an urn containing 70 coins, chiefly 

 of Hadrian, Severus, and the younger Constantine, had been then 

 lately found at Burton Wood, four miles from Ashbourne, " within 

 the boundaries of a spacious Roman camp which the country 

 people pretend has once been a large town." With the exception 

 of the sentence relating to the camp, this is copied by Lysons, 

 Glover, and Bateman. Do the two different accounts allude to 

 the same discovery ? It is evident that the writer in the Gentle- 

 mans Magazine must be wrong in including the coins of the 

 younger Constantine, for there would be a gap of 130 years between 



* Vol. ii., pp. 284-5. 



