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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 1 Derbyshire remains which come under the present head, consisting of grave-mounds, earth-works and other visible monuments, are few compared with the magnificent pre-historic array, but perhaps not relatively fewer, when we consider how much shorter was their period. They may indeed have been relatively more numerous, for as a rule they are of less enduring character ; hence it is that some of the most important discoveries have been accidentally made, there being nothing left above ground to mark their presence. The literature of these remains in Derbyshire is correspondingly scanty. Here, as before, we are greatly indebted to the spade and pen of Mr. Thomas Bateman, F.S.A., for information. In his Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, which appeared in 1848, he recounted all the discoveries of the class which were then known to him barely a dozen barrow-burials, of which six had been opened by himself. Of those which had been opened before his time, two rank among the most notable discoveries of the sort made in the county the one, a barrow known as White-low near Winster, destroyed by labourers in 1756 or 1757, and originally described by Mr. John Manders of Bakewell 1 ; the other, a similar barrow on the Garratt Piece, Middleton Moor, also de- stroyed by labourers in 1788, and described by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge, F.S.A. 3 Both yielded many objects of rare interest, which may now be seen in the Sheffield Museum. In his next book, Ten Tears' Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave-bills, Mr. Bateman described a larger number of these interments, all opened by himself and Mr. Samuel Carrington between the years 1848 and 1861, mostly in the western part of the county. In the appended notes of Mr. John Wilson of Broomhead Hall, is a reference to the opening of a barrow, Bole or Bone-low near Derwent Chapel in 1780, when three or four cinerary urns were found, which, to judge from the small woodcut given of one, belonged to this period. In 1863 and 1865 Mr. John F. Lucas, whose name has been men- tioned in connection with the pre-historic remains, excavated a large Bronze-age barrow known as Bower's-low near Tissington, which con- tained an important ' Saxon' interment.* Several years later, in 1867, a 1 Arch. iii. 274. ' Ibid. ix. 189. 3 Reliquary, iv. 165. 1 265 34