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 ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE But that (according to our present knowledge) did not serve in Britain. Hassencamp suggested the Cohors iv Breucorum, known to have been in garrison at Slack (Cambodunum) near Huddersfield. But that involves a violent alteration of the one copy which we possess of the lettering. In any case we must not, with several English writers, expand LV BRIT into ' Lutudarensian Britons.' That conjecture violates the invariable order of the words, and must be regarded as most unlikely. It must be added that, at the time when this stone was found, a Mr. Cell was a prominent landowner and roadmaker in the district. The letters CELL therefore give rise to some suspicion either of forgery or of misreading. 3 FIG. 42. INSCRIBED FRAGMENT FROM HOPTON. The fragment has, of course, no connexion with the burial with which it was found. It was plainly torn from some earlier monument to provide a cover for the sepulchral urn. What the earlier monument was, whether a dedication like the Haddon altar, we have no chance of deciding. INDEX ALDERWASLEY. Samian potsherd found between Blackbrook and Knave's cross, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 214, note. AJ.FRETON (half-way between Derby and Chesterfield, a mile east of Rycknield Street). At Greenhaigh or Greenhill Lane, 2 miles south of the village, a large hoard found September, 1748, in boggy ground on the 'Lower Close' of New Grounds Farm (probably that now called Newlands). It contained some 2,000 denarii, part in an earthen pot, part scattered round ; Reynolds saw 2,000-3,000, which ranged from Vespasian to Sept. Severus. For this type of hoard see Arcbtcologia, liv. 489 foil. [Notebook of a contemporary local antiquary, John Reynolds, of Plaistow, printed Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 216: compare his MS. in B. M. Add. 6,708. Brief notices by Pegge, Roads Through the Coritani, p. 29, and Archteologia, x. 30 ; Pilkington, ii. 320 ; Lysons, p. ccvii ; Glover, i. 297 ; Bateman, prestiges, p. 157 ; Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 196, etc. Pegge gives the date as 1 740 ; hence his successors, from Lysons onwards, have imagined two hoards, one found 1740 and one found 1748. But it is pretty plain that he merely put the date down wrong. The hoard mentioned Minutes Soc. Antiq., 9 February, 1 748-9 (v. 212), seems to be this ; the number of coins is there given as 3,000.] Stukeley in his Diary, 18 October, 1754 (Surtees Soc. 76, p. 117), mentions * silver coins lately found by Alfreton,' among which i Faustina, I Geta, i Gordian. It is not