6 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Mr. Tborcjly has given a good print of a Roman altar carried off 

 from this ftation to Blekenfopp-CaJlle, from a drawing of Mr. Cay's ; 

 the ftone neatly decorated, but the infcription a little injured (h). 

 Mr. Nor/ley has figured it in the condition he probably faw it, in 

 a lefs agreeable formfij. 



A curious and beautiful fculpture of a. Roman foldier, in ftone, 

 of the white-rag kind, within a nich, and in relief, was digged 

 up in 1760; helmeted ; a Pallium or light robe down to his feet, 

 fattened at the breaft with a Fibula ; an Hajla or fpear in his right 

 hand ; in his left, a Parma or fhield, refting on a mort pedeftal ; 

 above his left moulder, a lion recumbent, and a deer under it, 

 kept down by the ftrength of the paws of that noble animal. It 

 is fourteen inches and a half in length, and nine inches, in dia- 

 meter. 



It has been the work of an excellent artift. It was placed as 

 a fide-fupporter in an aperture to let in the light in a new barn 

 by Mr. Carrick, whofe fon was fo kind, with his confent, to pre- 

 fent it to me, 6th June, 1764. 



An abundance of Stags horns have been digged up ; alfo many 

 fmall mill-Hones, three of them now lying at the door of Mr. 

 Carried owner of the ftation. 



It is near the 38th mile-ftone on the military road, at the head 

 pf the flope above Gienivhelt, to the north-eaft. It has a pretty 

 vale and mountain profpecl: ; the Qrcbard-houfe near Wardreiv, 

 and the caftle of Tbirlivall, in light to the weft j the caftle of Blen- 



(b) Ph. Tr. No. 231. 

 (I) Brit. Rom. No. LXX. 



