XVIII. Description of a second Roman Pig of Lead found in Derbyshire; now in the possession of Mr. Adam Wolley of Matlock in that County, with Remarks. By Samuel Pegge. In a Letter to Robert Banks Hodgkinson, Esq.

Samuel Pegge

doi:10.1017/S0261340900022360

XVIII. Description of a second Roman Pig of Lead found in Derbyshire; now in the possession of Mr. Adam Wolley of Matlock in that County, with Remarks. By Samuel Pegge. In a Letter to Robert Banks Hodgkinson, Esq.

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Samuel Pegge

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I beg leave to address you in regard to another mass of Roman lead lately discovered in Derbyshire. Your attachment to this subject expressed to me in one of your late letters gives me great confidence to hope you will not think me troblesome in engaging your attention once more as briefly as I can.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 7 , 1785 , pp. 170 - 174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900022360 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1785

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^{page 170 note [a]} It takes its name from the hillocks of earth and rubbish at such places.

^{page 171 note [b]} Gent. Magazine, 1773, vol. XLIII. p. 61.

^{page 171 note [c]} Of this see Gent. Mag. 1783. vol. LIII. p. 935.

^{page 171 note [d]} Archaeologia, vol. V. p. 375.

^{page 171 note [e]} See for this Archaeologia, V. p. 377.

^{page 172 note [f]} Rom. Antiq. p. 904.

^{page 172 note [g]} Inscript. Antiq. Sylloge, p. 205. and repeatedly in Gruter.

^{page 173 note [h]} Amm. Marcellinus, p. 234 & var. Lect. Edit. Vales. Beda, p. 3. Indeed the Saxons almost universally give it so in the coins and MSS.

^{page 173 note [i]} Gale, ad Antonin. p. 70. Mr. Sherringham observes, p. 21, that the British name is Llundain, and undoubtedly the name is of British original. See Richards's Brit. and Engl. Dict. v. Llundain, and archbishop Usher's. Brit. Eccl. Antiq. p. 34.

^{page 173 note [k]} Archaeologia, V. p. 374.

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XVIII. Description of a second Roman Pig of Lead found in Derbyshire; now in the possession of Mr. Adam Wolley of Matlock in that County, with Remarks. By Samuel Pegge. In a Letter to Robert Banks Hodgkinson, Esq.

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