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XVII. Discoveries in opening a Tumulus in Derbyshire. In a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Pegge to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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John Webster, a farmer at Smiril in the county of Derby, occupies some land belonging to Lord Viscount Howe, which gives him a privilege on Middleton-moor, and wanting this year to burn some lime, he dug for that purpose into a Tumulus or Low, on that part of the Moor called Garret-piece and began his work at the bottom of it, on a level with the circumjacent ground.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 189 note [a] Mr. Maty observes, whoever goes to Derby must needs know the Lows … very well? Review, Nov. 1785, p. 351, but now the Lows are not near Derby. However, in p. 131, of Archæologia, for lang, r. laeg; and p. 140, for Arar, r. Arwr, these being two very material errors.

page 190 note [b] See pl. IX.

page 191 note [c] See pl. IX. fig. 4.