A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



the early part of the 19th century [Beauties of Engl, and Jf^ales, xii (i), 182 ; Lewis, Tepog. 

 Diet.']. See also Bridgeford, West. 



VViLLOUGHBY. — The site of Vernemetum ; see above, p. 17. 



WiNTHORPE. — According to Dickinson the foundations of an immense bridge, supposed to be 

 Roman, were seen in the Trent near here during the summers of 1792-3. It is supposed, 

 however, that he was mistaken in the locality, and that it is really identical with the bridge 

 discovered near Cromwell (q.v.) nearly a century later [Dickinson, Antiq. in Notts, i, 92 ; 

 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xli, 50 ; Standard, 3 Nov. 1884. For Dickinson's mistaken con- 

 jectures founded on this supposed bridge, see pp. 5, 7]. See also under Cromwell. 



WisETON. — At Drakeholes in this township, in the parish of Clayworth, at the point where the 

 branch of Ermine Street between Littleborough and Bawtry (see p. 10) touches the Trent and 

 Chesterfield Canal, has been supposed to be the site of a small Roman station. Some coins 

 of Constantine (a.d. 306-37) and human bones have been found in a cutting of the canal 

 [Beauties of Engl, and Wales, xii (i), 302 ; Lewis, Topog. Diet, ; Arch. Journ. xliii, 43 ; Brown, 

 Hist. Notts. 177 ; O.S. 6-in. vi, NE.]. 



Worksop. — In 1826 several coins of Nero (a.d. 54-68) and Domitian (a.d. 81-96) were found 

 in the ruins of the old manor house at Gateford, two miles from the town [Lewis, 

 Topog. Diet. ; Arch. Journ. xliii, 36]. Small brass coins of the later emperors were found at 

 Shireoaks (also two miles distant), some years before 1875 [White, Worksop, 98]. See also 

 Osberton. 



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