ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



may therefore have been occupied at one time by the Romans. The camp commands an 



extensive view over Sherwrood Forest, and the road from Southw^ell to Mansfield, which has 



been thought Roman, passes between this and Hexgrave \_Arch. ix, 200, pi. 1 1 ; x, 380 ; 



Dickinson, op. cit. i, 290, Expl. Ohs. 5 ; Beauties of Engl, and Wales, xii (i), 271 ; Arch. 



Journ. xliii, 40 ; V.C.H. Notts, i, 291 ; O.S. xxviii. SE.]. 



Near the first-mentioned camp was found a Roman pig of lead (fig. 9), from the Derbyshire 



mining districts, in 1848. It was formerly at Thurgarton Priory, but was acquired by the British 



Museum in 1879. It is inscribed c • ivl • proti • brit • lvt • ex • arg, C. Jul(i) Proii 



Brit(annicum) Lut(udarense) ex 



argiejitarils). It measures 1 9 J in. 



by 3f in. and weighs 184 lb. Lu- 



tudarense is explained by Professor 



Haverfield as referring to the lead 



mines of Lutudarum (Matlock) ; ex 



argentariis denotes that the lead was 



mined as containing silver which 



was separated in the smelting. 



Professor Gowland states that this 



pig has been treated for the extrac- 

 tion of silver {V.C.H. Derb. i, 



231, fig. 30, no. 3 ; HUbner in 



Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii, 12 16; Arch. 



Journ. xvi, 36 ; xliii, 40 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. 



Gent. Mag. 1 849, i, 518; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 



Saxon (6th edn.), 295 ; Yates in Somerset. Arch. Soc. 



(analysis of metal by Gowland) with pi. 57, no. 4]. 

 Flintham. — A Roman vase, 5^ in. high, was dug up from a ditch at the depth of 3 ft. in 1776, 



and was at one time in the collection of Mr. John Disney at the Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex. It 



is described as a ' grey terra cotta vase of sun-dried clay, broken at the lip ; on the shoulder, 



a rough raised border, folded inwards in a sort of wave.' See fig. 1 [Gough's Camden, ii, 



401 ; Museum Disneianum, ii, pi. 93, fig. 4, p. 226 ; Arch. 

 Journ. vi, 85 ; Gerhard, Denkm. u. Forschungen, 1849, 

 _-^ Anzeiger, 55 ; Inventory of Disney Vases, 278 (in Greek and 



Roman Departmental Library, Brit. Mus.)]. Roman urns 

 and coins have also been reported at different times \fJourn. 

 Brit. Arch. Assoc, viii, 187]. 

 Gateford. See Worksop. 



Granby. — A stone altar of the Roman period was dug up in 

 the churchyard in 1 8 1 2, and was afterwards in the posses- 

 sion of Andrew Esdaile, but has now disappeared. He 

 describes it as 10 in. high and 5 in. square, with rude 



Fig. 9. — Pig of Lead, Hexgrave Park, Farnsfield 



V, 79 ; viii, 55 ; (New Ser.) iv, 275 ; 

 'f)) i) 259 ; Wright, Celt, Roman, and 

 Trans, viii (1858), 11 ; Arch. Ivii, 402 



columns at 

 sides 



the corners, and a hollow at the top 



Fig. 



10. — Roman Vase from Flintham 

 (Disney Coll.) 



on the 

 are carvings ; on the front ' a Koman hgure,' with 

 helmet and toga, sword in left hand ; on the sides ' hiero- 

 glyphics,' i.e. the head of a lamb with the body and wings 

 of a dragon; on the back ' a finely-cut vegetable figure' 

 [Esdaile, Rut. Mon. 50 ; Godfrey, Notes on Churches of 

 Notts. {Bingham Hund.), 201 ; information also from Rev. 

 A. du Boulay Hill of East Bridgeford]. It is possibly in this parish that a find occurred in 

 1786 of 'several Roman coins in a field near Belvoir, Nottinghamshire, some with the head 

 of Adrian (a.d. 117-38) and others with that of Vespasian' (a.d. 70-9) [Gent. Mag. 1787, 



>•, 83]. 



Gringley-on-the-Hill. — Traces of a Roman road have been noted [Family Memoirs of Stukeley, 

 (Surtees Soc), iii, 150], but the road from Littleborough to Bawtry passes over a mile away 

 to the south-west through Clayworth. 



Har worth. — In 1828 three silver Roman coins, of Hadrian, Antoninus, and Faustina (a.d. i 17-68), 

 with part of a vase and pieces of pottery, were found on the site of a supposed Roman station 

 at Merton. It is said that the outlines of an octagonal building could be traced here in the 

 middle of the last century [Lewis, Topog. Diet. ; Dickinson, Expl. Obs. p. 2 (under Bawtry) ; 

 Nott. Daily Guardian, 16 Mar. 1877 ; Bailey, //««. of Notts, iv, 362 ; Arch. Journ. xliii, 35]. 

 The Ordnance Survey marks a ' Roman bank ' at Serlby Park in this parish, presumably the 

 rectangular camp of type C described in the article ' Earthworks ' of this History [O.S, 



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