20 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
which, in former times, ministered to the spiritual wants 
of the extensive parish of Eglingham, and which are all now 
either in ruins or destroyed. This little chapel* is a valuable 
specimen of the architecture of the 12th century, with some 
trifling later additions and insertions. It has an apsidal termin- 
ation, which still possesses its groining of rubble work. From 
the chapel the members proceeded to the camp or camps on the 
hill behind Old Bewick. This is one of the most perfect and 
largest of the forts in the neighbourhood. It is double, of the 
shape of two horse shoes, abutting on the steep scarp of the hill 
to the south. Four rampiers have originally surrounded it, two 
of which are still very perfect, and are both high and wide, at 
one part the bottom between them is upwards of twenty feet 
in depth. The exterior mound has never been so high as the 
others, and is now in part effaced. The rampiers are formed of 
large stones, which have been also covered with earth, and this 
is the most usual fabric of such works. The steep scarp to the 
south, on which these four rampiers abut, has been further pro- 
tected by a low wall. Within the camp are the traces of circular 
foundations, similar to those at Greaves Ash. 
But the most remarkable feature in connection with the 
Bewick camp, is the mysterious circular markings, which are 
found inscribed on stones, to the east of, and outside the en- 
closure. They exist on four stones, on one to the number 
of twenty-five. The principal characteristic of these markings is 
a series of concentric circles, engraved on the stone, more or less 
in number, surrounding a circular hole, from which proceeds a 
hollow line or duct. In other cases, four or five circular holes 
are found, sometimes surrounded by a circular groove, and some- 
times without one. These markings have been found widely 
distributed under different circumstances; in some cases, as at 
Bewick, on stones or rocks exposed to the air and visible, in 
other cases on the under side of the covering stones of places of 
burial. One of the most remarkable assemblages of them is on a 
rock at Rowtin Lynn, in the parish of Ford, which, like the stones 
* It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A short accountis given of it, ina letter from 
P. C. Hardwich, Esq., to J. C. Langlands, Esq., and is published in the Berwickshire Field 
Club Transactions, vol. iv,, p. 52. 
