206 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



another found at Hartshay, besides an iron one found at Little 

 Chester, and an iron knife from Middleton by Youlgreave. 



There were also two iron knives, apparently Roman, found on 

 Brassington Moor, one near a tumulus, the other with fragments 

 of urns and bones. They are engraved in the Archceologia, 

 vol. x., p. 35. 



It was for a long time supposed that an elaborate silver salver, 

 found in the last century in Riseley Park, was of the Britanno- 

 Roman period, but the inscription upon it proves that it must 

 have been brought to England after the Norman Conquest. It 

 may, however, possibly have originally been made by Roman 

 hands during the Lower Empire. 



Roman Roads. 



Having thus noticed the Roman remains in the county generally, 

 let us look into the means by which the various stations and settle- 

 ments held communication with each other, i.e. the Roman roads. 

 These I am sorry to say I have not yet examined minutely, but 

 have shortly to do so. I must therefore mainly rely on previous 

 writers. 



The chief Roman road called the " Rykneld Street " entered 

 the county, as is agreed upon by all writers, from Staffordshire at 

 Monk's Bridge.* It was, in the time of Drs. Plott and Salmon, 

 very visible as a high raised way in many places, but has since 

 been much destroyed. The account given in 181 7 by the 

 Bishop of Cloyne, embodying as it does those of the above- 

 named writers, with that of Dr. Pegge, and the bishop's own 

 observations, is by far the best record we have of it as it existed 

 until a recent period. He says.t "It is called by the name of 

 the Rignal street, in an old survey of Sir H. Hunloke's property 

 in this county, as well as in those of other estates in Warwick- 

 shire and Staffordshire, where it is described as their boundary. 

 It enters Derbyshire from this last county over the Dove at 

 Monk's Bridge, and its crest is visible on Egginton Heath, 



* Plott's Nat. Hist, of Staffordshire, p. 400. Salmon's New Survey, pp. 

 539-40. Pegge, Bib. Top. Brit., No. xxiv., p. 17. 

 f Magna Britannia, vol. v., p. ccix. 



