348 The Grave-mounds of Derbyshire, and their Contents. 



In other parts of Derbyshire coins have been found in 

 considerable numbers, sometimes in connection with interments, 

 but more commonly without. Beads have also occasionally 

 been found. The one here engraved was found near to a 



deposit of burnt bones in a barrow at 

 Harley or Harlow Hill. It is of blue 

 glass, and is of the most usual form of 

 mti Jm Roman beads. 



Of the pottery alone of the Romano- 

 British period, sufficient interesting mat- 

 ter to fill a couple of goodly volumes 

 might easily be written. It will, there- 

 fore, be easily understood that in a paper 

 like the one I am now drawing up, which is simply intended 

 to be a descriptive sketch of the contents of Derbyshire grave- 

 mounds, any account of the different kinds of ware made by 

 that people, and of the modes of manufacture which they 

 adopted, would be not only unnecessary, but, to some extent, 

 out of place. Those who desire general information upon the 

 Samian ware, the Durobrivian pottery, and the pottery of the 

 Upchurch marshes, cannot do better than refer to, and study, 

 the three excellent articles on those wares which have already 

 appeared in the pages of The 'Intellectual Observes from 

 the pen of my friend Mr. Thomas Wright, which will be 

 found to give them all the information they can desire. The 

 Roman cinerary urns found in Derbyshire are mostly of the 

 usual globular form, and of a dark bluish-grey colour in fracture. 

 They are somewhat coarse in texture, and are thrown on the 

 wheel. Other varieties, both in form, in colour, and in mate- 

 rial, however, occur, as will be seen from the following ex- 

 amples and descriptions. The first engraving exhibits one of 



the hard bluish-grey vessels I 

 have just now spoken of. "When 

 found, it was like the others I 

 am about to notice, filled with 

 burat bones. The next en- 

 gravings show two urns con- 

 taining human remains, the 

 smaller one of which was 

 found at Little Chester. It 

 is formed of a black clay, 

 mixed with small pieces 

 of broken shells — a kind of 

 pottery much used for sepulchral purposes. The larger 

 urn, from my own collection, is of a hard and compact 

 clay, and is beautifully " thrown" on the wheel. These 

 examples are entirely devoid of ornament. The next 



