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ANOTHER INGOT OF LEAD, now lost, is said to have been found near Nussey Knott, circa 1860. It weighed about 88 lbs, and was inscribed with Trajan’s name, dating it to between 98 and 117 A.D. Despite these clues that the Romans mined for lead on Greenhow, no evidence of their mining or smelting sites remains. Moreover, the lack of evidence for the next 1000 years or so suggests that lead mining remained fairly small scale.