Mr. George Tate on Ancient Sculptured Rocks, 8fc. 14Y 



To the westward of this rock about 100 yards, another 

 large area is covered with defaced inscriptions; eleven figures 

 are traceable — all of typical forms — one group of concentric 

 circles being 30 inches in diameter. 



Not far from these rocks are several barrows in the moor- 

 lands — the burial places of the ancient British people. Two 

 of them were opened by the Rev. William Greenwell ; one, 

 which was enclosed by a circle of stones set on edge, con- 

 tained within a cist-vaen, the fragment of a child's skull and 

 an empty urn ; and outside of the cist, were the remains of 

 six or seven bodies all burnt and enclosed in urns, and among 

 the bones were a rude arrow head, a flint flake, and a bone 

 pin, all of which had been subjected to fire. The other bar- 

 row contained burnt bones.* 



Fo7'd West Field. — More important however, was the 

 discovery by Mr. Greenwell of a typical figure, of three 

 incomplete concentric circles around a cup, on the under 

 surface of a cist cover at Ford West Field, which is about a 

 mile westward of Routing Linn — Plate X.I.,Jig. 5. Another 

 cist cover in the same locality, was sculptured with several 

 hollows or cups. Interesting these cases are, because con- 

 necting the sculptures with the dead. 



Doddington and Horton Moors. 



On the Doddington and Horton Moors the inscribed stones 

 are numerous ; within an area of two miles from north to 

 south and about a mile in breadth, no less than twenty-five 

 of these stones have been discovered;! this number would be 

 puzzling, were it not that other pre-historic remains are scat- 

 tered over these high moors in similar profusion. 



High Chesters. — About two miles south-eastward of Rout- 

 ing Linn and half-a-mile northward of Doddington, Miss 

 Procter discovered in 1859, one of the most remarkable of 

 the inscribed stones, in a cultivated field called the High 

 Chesters. It was then covered with turf of the depth, in 

 some places, of twelve inches ; and this covering had so %vell 

 preserved the figures, that on being exposed they were 

 remarkably distinct, and probably in a state but little altered 

 since they had come from the hand of the sculptor ; so that 

 the character of primaeval woik is well shewn on this rock. 



* History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. iv., p. 390. 



t To prevent repetition, I may here state, that nearly all the inscriptions in 

 the Doddington district, have been discovered by the Eev. William Procter and 

 members of his family. 



