This is a link to Thomas Bateman and Stephen Glover’s “Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire” (1848) in which the discovery of the shale beads and many other things is described. The excavation was apparently very “efficient” and done in a day... things were a bit different in those days.
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The index is very interesting too from the site perspective