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 A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE Recently the director of the museum, Mr. E. Howarth, compiled a useful Catalogue to the Eateman Collection of Antiquities, in which are in- corporated copious extracts from the above two books, as well as from the old Lomberdale catalogue. In the ' sixties ' a few but extremely interesting barrows were opened in the vicinity of Buxton, Tissington and Stanton by the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt, F.S.A., the founder, and for many years the editor, of the Reliquary, and Mr. J. Fossick Lucas of Fenny Bentley, whose early death at thirty-five in 1873 cut short a career which promised much for local archaeology. They are described in that magazine, and the ' finds ' are now in the British Museum. It may be mentioned that in this decade two barrows near Bradley were explored by Mr. C. S. Greaves, Q.C., and several near Eyam by Mr. B. Bagshaw. The earlier ' seventies ' were distinguished by the investigations of the late Mr. Rooke Pennington around Castleton, which formed the chief subject of his Notes on the Barrows and Bone Caves of Derbyshire. Mr. Pennington was a Bolton solicitor who had a country house at Castle- ton, in which village he established an excellent little museum which was open to the public. Shortly after his death in 1888, the collection was dispersed, the local antiquities going to the Bolton Museum. The years 1 8756 were memorable for the highly important work conducted by the Rev. J. Magens Mello, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., and others, in the caves of the Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire border near Work- sop, and fully described in the Journal of the Geological Society and else- where. Then followed a ten-years' lull. The next period of activity opened with the present writer's explora- tion of barrows near Upper Haddon, followed by that of Rains' Cave and other remains near Brassington. Throughout the ' nineties ' Mr. Micah Salt of Buxton engaged in similar operations in his district, the writer frequently joining him. His most notable work was the excavation of the Deepdale Cave. Most of the Derbyshire discoveries during the past fifteen years have been described by the writer in the Reliquary, the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeo- logical and Natural History Society, the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries and the "Journal of the British Archaeological Association. In 1901, those effected by Mr. Salt were reprinted and added to under the title of Ancient Remains near Buxton by Mr. W. Turner, F.S.S. During the last two autumns a number of trenches have been cut upon the site of the circle of Arborlow by Mr. H. St. George Gray on behalf of the British Association, and Mr. I. Chalkley Gould has recently written about some of the ancient defensive earthworks of the county in the Journals of the British Archaeological Association and the Derbyshire Archsological and Natural History Society. In the following pages the Derbyshire pre-historic remains are grouped according to their affinities, and these groups are arranged in their approximate chronological order ; but allowance must be made for the overlapping of some and the uncertainty of the age of others. The 162