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passed over Egginton Heath to Derventio (Little Chester, now 

 an outskirt of Derby) • from thence to Pent rich (which is 

 believed to have been a station), and so on to Lutudarum 

 (Chesterfield), and forward into Yorkshire. From Little 

 Chester several of the roads diverged, and other lines again 

 traversed the Peak district, both in the neighbourhood of 

 Buxton (supposed Aquce) and in other directions; whilst others 

 again from the lead-producing districts centred in Chesterfield. 

 The stations, and supposed stations, in Derbyshire, were at 

 Little Chester, where a vast number of remains have been 

 found ; Chesterfield, where also coins, etc., have been dis- 

 covered;" Buxton, where Roman baths have been traced; 

 Brough near Castleton ; Melandra Castle, Parwich, and Pen- 

 trich. At each of these places remains of the period have 

 ween found. Roman coins, fibulee, pottery, etc., have also been 

 found in various parts of the county, and show that it must 

 have been pretty fully traversed, and indeed occupied, by that 

 people. 



In the mining districts of the High Peak, Roman anti- 

 quities of one kind or another are being frequently turned up, 

 and some of the lead mines, which exist and are worked at the 

 present day, are proved to have been known to, and worked 

 by, the Romans. This is, perhaps, more particularly the case in 

 the neighbourhoods of Elton, Winster, Youlgreave, Matlock, 

 etc., where even the names of some of the mines — such as the 

 ' ( Portway Mine,''' for instance — give evidence of their early 

 origin. Pigs of lead of Roman manufacture have at different 

 times been found in Derbyshire, some of which bear inscriptions 

 referring to the station of Lutudarum (Chesterfield), to which 

 I have already alluded. One of these inscriptions is : — 

 T. CL. TR. LVT. BR. EX. AUG-., and another, IMP. CAES. 

 HADRIANI. AVG. MET. LYT. The finding of these in- 

 scribed and other pigs of lead, the number of Roman roads 

 which traversed the mining districts, and the number of coins 

 and other articles which have from time to time been found 

 about the mines, and in their neighbourhood, show that lead 

 must have been produced to some considerable extent, and 

 that a large number of people must have been engaged in the 

 getting of the ore, and in smelting it. 



When, in addition to the fact 1 have stated, that the Roman 

 people did not make regular settlements in Derbyshire, we 

 recal to mind the other fact, that they but seldom raised tumuli 

 over their dead, or, in this country, placed any ostentatious 

 monuments over their remains, the reason is obvious why so 

 few of their sepulchral urns should have been found here, 

 though, doubtless, many urns etc., still lie buried and will yet 

 from time to time be unearthed. It is also necessary to re- 



