At Red Hill there have been frequently discovered human bones; old coins also, some of which were gold and silver. A Thomas Baker who was at the digging up a large heap of human bones, found something like the shape of a coffin handle, and a glass similar to a wine glass, standing on a pedestal elegantly gilt with gold; but it broke with taking out of the earth. (1)
Throsby records that skeletons and coffins (incorrect - see above) were dug up c 1750-90 in the course of gypsum mining; more skeletons were unearthed when the railway tunnel E of the site was cut in the 1840s. (2)
See M386 for Med mines and cross refs, M500 for Ro settlement.

<1> Throsby J, 1790, Thoroton's History of Notts Vol 1, p 29 (Published document). SNT1345.

<2> Thoroton Society, 1963, TTS, p 21 (Published document). SNT377.