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 A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE At Garrett Piece, two bits ot enamelled bronze work, figured Arch. ix. 189, Jewitt, Grave Mounds, fig. 436, and Bateman, Vestiges, p. 25, sometimes called Roman, but really Late Celtic, perhaps of the sixth to seventh century A.D. MIDDLETON, STONY. Wall of ancient bath near the warm spring, taken (but probably with- out good reason) to be Roman work ; destroyed before 1824 [E. Rhodes, Peak Scenery (London), 1824, p. 27 ; hence Derb. Arch. Journ. vi. 114]. No other Roman remains have been found here. MILLERS DALE. Coin of Gordian, found 1904 [Sheffield Dally Telegraph, 30 Nov. 1904]. MINNING Low (Ballidon parish). In a large tumulus excavated 1843 an( ^ 1850-1, six 'Third Brass' coins I Claudius Gothicus, 2 Constantine the Great, 2 Constantine junior, i Valentinian inside the cist : I Constantine near it, and a peck of Romano-British pot- sherds, and 4 more coins, Constantine the Great and junior near the surface [Bateman, Vestiges, p. 40, Diggings, pp. 54, 82, Lomberdale Ho. Catal. p. 141 ; hence Jewitt, Intel!. Observer, xii. 347]. In smaller tumulus, opened 1850, cremation burial, 3 urns, I 'Third Brass' of Later Empire [Bateman, Diggings, p. 55]. MONSAL DALE (Little Longstone parish). Barrow on the Brushfield side of river Wye, with secondary interment, bones of man and dog and bronze fibula [Bateman, Diggings, p. 77]. The fibula seems to be that now in Sheffield Mus. (Catal. p. 196, J. 93, 627) of the second or third century. Mentioned Intel!. Observer, xii. 345, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 205 (fig. 48). MONYASH. At Ringham Low, bronze fibula perhaps of first century, found 1845. [Bate- man, Vestiges, p. 159, Lomberdale Ho. Catal. p. 129 ; now in Sheffield Museum, Catal. p. 20O. The cut in all three books is inaccurate]. The fibula itself resembles one found with first-century Samian at Walmer (Arch. Cantiana, xxvi. plate iv v 2) ; compare C. R. Smith, Coll. Ant. i. no and ii. plate v. 2, etc. (fig. 47). The British Museum has (from the Lucas coll.) another and later fibula from Monyash, precise locality unrecorded. MOUSELOW CASTLE. See p. 211. NEW INNS. Three bits of ' Romano-British ' pottery in barrow near Cold Eaton, found 1851 [Bateman, Diggings, p. 181 ; Sheffield Mus. Catal. p. 192]. OCKBROOK. At Borrowash, 5 miles S.E. of Derby, found about 1850 during the construc- tion of the Midland Railway, many inhumation burials of uncertain age, also small rude vase of white clay, containing the burnt bones of a pigeon or other bird and a coin of Constantine [Briggs, Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. vii. 362]. In his Hist, of Melbourne (18 52) p. 1 6, he omits the coin. The burials may easily be post-Roman. OKER HILL. Lead pig, see p. 232 ; coins, see Darley. PADFIELD. Near Hooleywood, found in 1838 in removing the soil at a stone quarry, hoard of silver and billon ; 5 seen were of Severus Alexander (3) and Julia Maesa (2), according to Mr. W. Beamont, of Warrington [Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. vii. 19 ; hence Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 202, xxi. 17]. From this hoard probably were taken most of the nine casts of coins i Domitian, 2 Marcus, 3 Severus Alexander, 2 Maesa, and another doubtful now preserved in Warrington Museum as ' found at Melandra' [Watkin, Derb. Arch. Journ. viii. 89]. Padfield is about if miles N.E. of Melandra. PARWICH. Earthworks on Parwich Hill, at Lombards Green (2^ miles west of the Roman road from Buxton to Derby). In an enclosure, half an acre in extent, a workman seeking for lead found, about 1769, a 'military weapon' and a hoard of some 80 denarii with an urn including some Triumvirate, 2 Nero, i Vitellius, 5 Vespasian, 5 Domitian, 8 Nerva, 1 5 Trajan, 1 5 Hadrian, I Sabina, 5 Pius, I Lucilla, 2 Aurelius, 4 Faustina, and others that is, a hoard of the character described in Arch., liv. 489 foil. [Pilkington, ii. 208 ; hence, but very briefly, Arch. xii. 8, Reynolds, her. p. 425 (under Bradbourne), Bateman, Vestiges, p. 154, Watkin, etc. Watkin thinks that the Burton Wood hoard (see above) is this one under a wrong name]. On Saint's Hill (Saint's Low), found in 1849, in a previously disturbed barrow, 80 'Third Brass' of the Lower Empire, scattered about. [Bateman, Diggings, p. 61 ; hence Intellect. Observer, xii. 347, etc.]. Watkin conjectured that the Lombard's Green earthwork was ' probably a camp to guard the roadmakers, and afterwards a vicus.' But this has no evidence to support it. 260