ROMAN COINS IN DERBYSHIRE. 217 



altogether new matter, and, on referring the question to the 

 modern Romano-British authority — Mr. Thompson Watkin, he 

 agreed with me in thinking that this little book well-merited a 

 verbatim reproduction . — Ed itor . 



20 th Sep r - 1748. A large quantity of Roman coin was found 

 in a boggy piece of ground, near a watering place in y e lower 

 close of a Farm, called New Grounds, near Green-hill Lane, 

 in y e Parish of Alfreton, of County of Derby (which s d close also 

 adjoins Codnor Park), where one Daniel Elliot, one of y e work- 

 men who found it, gave me y e following account thereof, on y e 

 11 th of Dec r " 1748, being y e day I first heard of it. 



The s d Dan. Elliot, and an other laborer, being employed by 

 Sam L Roe who then rented y' Farm, to bring up a Drain from y e 

 bottom of y e close to Codnor Park pales, to take away y e water 

 from y e afores d watering pool, when it should run over, etc., and 

 thereby spread over too much of y e land, found, as they first 

 thought, lumps of small pieces of slate (a thing very common 

 thereabouts) sticking together. And when they came almost to 

 y e s d Pool, one of them struck his Hack against a Pot (Roman 

 Urn) full of money, which stood not above 3 inches under y e 

 grass roots. Hereat they were both overjoyed, and Elliot's 

 partner advised for them to take y e money themselves, 

 and divide it between them. Elliot told him it would not be 

 right, unless y r Master Roe had some share with them. At last 

 they went and told Roe, and of y r consultations thereupon, and 

 he agreed to have one third share. They then went to examine 

 those Lumps which they before believed to be slate, and found 

 them to be money also, turned black by y e peculiar quality of 

 y e soil, or water they lay in, and sticking together. Having 

 emptied y e Urn (which they regarded not) of its contents, and 

 picking up all they could readily, they took it (in a wheelbarrow) 

 to Roe's house, and cleaned it from y e dirt, by washing it in a 

 cloths wash tub. 



Then it was agreed among them y' Roe should sell it, and 

 when sold y e money to be divided into 3 shares among them. 



