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 ROMANO-BRITISH DERBYSHIRE YOULGREAVE. At Conksbury Bridge, near river Lathkil, bronze fibula, animal and human bones, and an ornamented bone [Bateman, Diggings, p. 243]. LOCALITY UNCERTAIN. The Minutes of the Soc. of Antiquaries for 9 February 1748-9 (v. 212) record the finding in Derbyshire of over 3,000 denarii, none older than Vespasian and none later than Severus. This seems to be the Alfreton find. APPENDIX I: THE NAME 'COLD HARBOUR' As I have stated in earlier volumes of the Victoria History (see especially Hampshire, i. 349), the connexion of the name ' Cold Harbour' with Roman sites seems to me to be wholly unproven. It may be convenient to add here the Derbyshire evidence. The name occurs in our county, so far as I can learn, four times. Cold Harbour Moor is two miles east of Glossop and not far from the Roman road from Melandra to Brough. Cold Harbour Farm is near New Mills and Hayfield (O.S. v. SE.) Cold Harbour Lane is near Dethick (O.S. xxxv. NW.), a little south of Matlock. Lastly, there is a Cold Harbour near Wormhill, two miles north-west of Miller's Dale (O.S. xv. SE.). No Roman objects are recorded from any of these sites, beyond the road which skirts the first, and Derbyshire agrees with the other counties which I have examined in suggesting no true connexion between Cold Harbour and Roman occupation. What the true meaning of the name is, must, I fear, be left doubtful. It is very common. But it does not (according to Mr. W. H. Stevenson) occur in early documents, and even the period of its origin is uncertain. APPENDIX II : THE COWLOW AND WORMHILL NECKLACES I have included in the preceding list some jet necklaces found at Cowlow and Wormhill which good judges have called Romano-British. There seems, however, to be little doubt that they really belong to the Bronze Age. Both the shapes and the lozenge ornament represented at Cowlow are typical of that period, and (as Mr. A. J. Evans tells me) though they may date from its later years, they cannot be ascribed to any subsequent age. A similar necklace was found with Bronze Age relics at Balcalk in Forfarshire and is now in the Edinburgh Museum (EQ 219 : Catalogue, pp. 192-3, with illustr.). Another, of somewhat different pattern, is assigned to a post-Roman period in Mortimer's Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, p. 353. 263