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numerous camps, hut-circles, terraces and burial-mounds. The 

 older histories and the recollection of people still living tell 

 of circles of stones which have now disappeared ; but a very fine 

 monolith still remains near Swinburn, in the immediate vicinity of 

 several cairns, which have produced cists, one of them containing a 

 jet necklace and other articles. Higher up the valley similar 

 remains have been met with, and I possess a very fine specimen 

 of a ' drinking cup ' which was discovered at Smalesmouth in a 

 cist with an unburnt body. At Warkshaugh, near to the village 

 of Wark, a low and flat barrow (on its being removed by the tenant) 

 was found to contain burials both of burnt and unburnt bodies, 

 one of the former being deposited in a cinerary urn, whilst there 

 was associated with one of the latter a peculiarly-marked 'food 

 vessel 1 .' On Chesterhope Common, the unusual occurrence of 

 gold was met with, in the shape of a necklace of globular beads of 

 that metal ; they are of various sizes, and the perforation in them 

 seems to show that they must have been strung upon a cord or 

 thong of more than ordinary thickness. The discovery was made 

 in a cairn, but it is not mentioned, in the account given, whether 

 the body had been burnt or was an unburnt one 2 . 



CCXIII. I have only had an opportunity of opening one 

 barrow in this district. It was situated about a mile to the east of 

 Chollerton, and was 36 ft. in diameter, 3^ ft. high, and constructed 

 of stones and earth, the upper part of the mound being entirely 

 made of stones. Twelve feet south of the centre was a deposit of 

 the burnt bones of an adult, laid upon the natural surface and 

 covered with a flat stone 1^ ft. long by 1J ft. wide. Nine feet 

 south-south-east of the centre a cinerary urn was discovered, 

 standing upright upon the natural surface and containing the 

 calcined remains of a young person. The urn was so much decayed 

 that nothing more can be said of it than that it had the usual 

 overhanging rim, which was ornamented with alternate series of 

 horizontal and vertical lines of twisted-thong impressions like the 

 pattern on fig. 54. At the centre was a cist, the bottom of which 

 was formed by the surface of the ground ; it lay north-west and 

 south-east, and was 3 ft. 10 in. long, 2 ft. 4 in. wide at the north- 

 west end, 2 ft. wide at the other end, and 2J ft. deep. It was 



1 See a paper by the Rev. G. Rome Hall, in Arckseologia Juliana, N. S., vol. vii. 

 p. 3. 



2 Arch. Ml., vol. i. p. 1. 



