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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D6230/8/16 |
| Title | Letter from John Wilson, Broomhead, to Nicholas Cresswell |
| Date | 1780 |
| Description | Thanks for account of Indian war masks; marble stones, not marvel stones, near Buxton; worth a visit to see if they are druidical because 'disposed in circles'; no camps known on Winhill or Losehill; Castleton Castle: Brough a kind of Roman station; inscribed bricks and ties found there; remains of a Roman way called Bathom [Botham] gate leading to Buxton bath; 'many druidical remains upon the moors worthy an antiquarian's noticee' but too numerous to describe; include Arbor Low and rocking stone at Rowtor; 'it's pity no body attempts a history of Derbyshire of which we have but a poor account and which affords such a fund both for antiquity and natural history', 18th December |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Unidentified |
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| Archivist Note | pocketwonders |