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ornamented with coloured glass, set in gold. The only burial 
that has come under my own notice was a sepulchral barrow at Cam- 
boise, removed last year, in which remained several bodies, 
with one of which was associated an enamelled bronze fibula 
and bone comb, both of undoubted Anglo-Saxon work. f 
hope to be able to give a full account of this discovery in 
our Transactions. : 
But the field widens when we come to medieval times. 
In remains of ecclesiastical and civil buildings the district 
abounds. The cathedral church of Durham, with the remains 
of the various monastic buildings there, may claim the first 
place, and we have noble examples of the skill and taste 
of our early architects in the conventual buildings of Finchale, 
Tynemouth, Hexham, Brinkburn, Hulne, and Holy Island, and 
in St. Nicholas’ Newcastle, Darlington, Staindrop, St. Andrew’s 
Auckland, Hartlepool, Lanchester, Easington, and numerous 
other most valuable examples of collegiate or parochial churches. 
As might be expected, from the neighbourhood of the borders, in 
castellated buildings, the two counties of Northumberland and 
Durham afford remarkable instances; without considering Norham, 
which is rather beyond our limits, there are the great castles of 
Alnwick, Warkworth, Newcastle, Prudhoe, Durham, Raby, and 
Barnard Castle, and the smaller ones of Chillingham, Edlingham, 
Bothal, Langley, Houghton in Tynedale, Witton on the Wear, 
Ravensworth, and Brancepeth, the two last containing valuable 
' portions of old work, though sadly barbarised by modern so 
called Gothic alterations and additions. Abundant instances 
of the fortified houses of the smaller gentry are found in the Peel 
houses, among which may be mentioned Cockle Park Tower, 
Morpeth, Hexham, Bellister, Blenkinsopp, Thirlwall, Cocklaw, 
Halton, and Belsay, and many others still remaining in a more or 
less perfect state. Ayden Castleisa choice and perfect specimen ofa 
fortified manor house of early date; and Lumley and Hylton Castles, 
the embattled residences of two of the oldest Durham families, afford 
us instances of buildings which do not quite fall into the list of 
castles or Peel towers. Some interesting fragments, little 
known, remain at Hollingside near Whickham, the old residence 
of the Hardings. Bishop Auckland possesses, in the palace of 
