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 ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE Licinius (Mint PLN), and Constantine the Great the last named, apparently the commonest ; some ' as large as a. halfpenny,' some smaller. The whole hoard weighed 9 Ibs. [Notebook of Reynolds printed Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 229, and his MS. in B. M. Add. 6,705. 104 ; 6,708, p. 1 8 ; Reynolds saw about 43, which he describes. Brief ref. in Annual Register, 1778, p. 170, Arch. x. 31, Lysons, etc.]. Bateman, Vestiges, p. 158, says the hoard consisted of 'Gallienus, Salonina, Diocletian, Constantine, etc.,' but the two first may be errors. (4) Edge Moor, on Crich Common, found, 9 Jan. 1788, earthen pot, holding perhaps two quarts, full of coins. Mason, curate of Crich, saw 2, ' copper or iron covered with tin ' (i.e. silvered over) of Gordian III. and Philip Junior ; the rest mouldered away in the finders' hands. [Mason, Arch. x. 31, hence, briefly, Lysons, Bateman, Watkin, etc.]. (5) Lewis (Topog. Diet. Art. Crich) says that 'coins of Adrian and Dioclesian have been found in an adjacent lead mine.' This notice is too vague to be valuable. CROMFORD. Inscribed pig of lead, p. 230. At Scarthen Nick, ' a perforated rock,' 200 copper coins of ' Lower Empire,' found about 1800. [Brayley and Britton, p. 523; hence Davies, p. 459, Glover, i. 316, Bateman, Watkin, etc.]. Reynolds (B. M. Add. MS. 6,708, p. 25) notices a find made 8 March 1795 at Scarthen Nick, a skeleton and 60 small copper coins of Licinius and the Constantines. I do not know if this is a separate find or the same described differently. CUBLEY (near). Roman coins {Brit. Arch. Assoc. 'Journ, vii. 185, vague reference; hence Watkin]. CULLAND PARK. Hoard : see Crich. DARLEY-IN-THE-DALE. On Oker (or Oaker) hill, lead pig, p. 232. Also ' Third Brass ' coins of Gallienus, Postumus, Tetricus, Claudius II., and ' many other antiquities, both of British and Roman origin' [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 159]. In Darley Dale, ' Roman ' globular urn full of burnt bones [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 163]. DEEPDALE. Thirst Ho. cave, p. 233. DUFFIELD. Fragments of tile, brick, potsherds, found below the castle at the point where a Roman road (from ? Buxton to Little Chester) is thought to have crossed the Derwent. Many potsherds, including Samian and part of a pelvis or mortarium, and some pre-Roman bits found in 18867 ' n excavating in the Castle Mounds. [Cox, Derb. Arch. Journ. ix. 141 foil. Briefer ref. in Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. new ser. vi. 17, Andrews, Bygone Derbyshire, p. 67, Bulmer, Topog. Direct, p. 651.] ECKINGTON. Earthworks at Mosborough Hall and on hill west of church, age uncertain near Rycknield St. [W. Askham, quoted by Glover, i. 289, and Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 209.] ELMTON. Cresswell caves : see p. 236. Earthwork on ' Camp Hill ' : close by, a silver coin illegible except for word CAESAR. [Bulmer, Topog. Direct. (1895), p. 245.] ELTON MOOR (i mile N.W. of Winster). Bronze fibula of a second-century type (fig. 49) briefly noted by Jewett, Intel/. Observer, xii. (1867), 345. The same, or a very similar fibula, ' found 1861 in old mine on Elton Moor,' is in Hull Museum. At Cowley Crake mine, bronze fibula found 5 March 1867, coin of Constantine SOLI INVICTO COMITI, 2 bronze pins, etc. [B.M.]. At Hardbeat mine, bronze fibula [ibid.'], presumably second century [B.M.]. The British Museum has also six other fibulae from near Elton, found 1863-6 ; all 8 come from the Lucas collection. EYAM. On Eyam Moor, north of the village (i) at Bole Hill, urn surrounded by stones and in it ashes and 2 'Third Brass* coins, I a Maximian [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 114]. (2) Found about 1759 in making the road over Sir William Hill, 2 copper coins, Constantine the Great and Maxentius [Wilson cited by Bateman, Diggings, p. 248 ; the remark on p. 253 seems an incorrect repetition of this]. (3) Copper coin of Probus found on the moor about 1800 [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 158]. In Eyam Dale, south of the village, hoard found 1814 near the entrance of Eyam Dale into Middleton Dale silvered denarii and small brass, mostly of Gallienus, Victorinus, Probus [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 158, Rhodes, Peak Scenery (London, 1824), p. 27]. In Eyam Dale, coin of Claudius II. (DIVO CLAVDIO) found about 1850 [Bateman, p. 158]. 1 257 33