ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



fide, the foundations of the minifter's houfe confpicuous ; the 

 fituation moft delightful, on a fmall peninfula floping to the two 

 rivers. 



On the weft fide of the chapel, on the banks of the 7 weed, is a 

 remarkable curiofity, a ftone-boat, of as fine a fliape as a boat of 

 wood, in which St. Cuthbert is faid, by tradition, to have failed 

 down the Tweed from Melrofs to this chapel. It is ten feet long 

 within ; three feet and a half in diameter, in the middle ; eigh- 

 teen inches deep ; four inches and a half thick. 



Half a mile weft from Tilmouth, on the left hand of the Ber- 

 wick-rozd to Cornbill, is a ftone-crofs, called Tilmouth-Crofs ; below 

 which, on the north fide, is an intrenchment, nearly fquare, 

 called The Haly Chejlers ; a great part of it overgrown with 

 furz. 



Oppofite to Linnel'Hoiife, and about a quarter of a mile from 

 Cornhill-bridge, on the brink of the Tweed, is the veftigies of a 

 fort, trenched round, called The Caftle Stone-Nich j a guard to the 

 ford crofs the river. 



The bridge over the Tweed is a modern ftrufture, confifting of 

 fix arches, of white freeftone ; the firft foundation-ftone laid in 

 May, 1763, by Lord Home', 4000 /. given towards building it by 

 the parliament. 



At a fmall diftance from the bridge, is 



Cornhitt, which was the villa of William de Comhlll, i K. Edwardl 

 (nj. It now belongs to Henry Collingwoodi Efq; high {heriff of 



{) ?filliItnus d Ctrnbill tenet villam de Cornbill in Efcamtio, et Hnrnclif^ et reddit. inda 

 per annum xviii marc. Efcact, de anno i Ed, I. 



N n n 2* Northunt*- 



