Mr. George Tate on Ancient Sculptured Rocks, 8^c. 161 



One of them, found on the top of a wall near Inghoe, is 

 inscribed with five incomplete concentric circles around a 

 cup, and with a wavy groove issuing from the outer circle 

 into two circular hollows. — Plate VII., Jig. 4. 



The two other stones were taken from an old dyke near to 

 Black Heddon, and both have been traced to interments. 

 One of them, which is inscribed by a series of four concentric 

 circles around a cup, originally covered an urn containing 

 burnt bones under a tumulus — Plate X., fig. 5 — and the 

 other, which is sculptured with cups or round hollows, formed 

 part of another tumulus about a mile distant. 



Jedburgh. 



All the inscriptions already described occur in the ancient 

 province of Otadeni; but a discovery made by myself in 1860 

 extended their range into the country of the Gadeni, another 

 of the ancient British tribes. Lying among a heap of stones 

 in Mr. Adam Mathewson's garden, I detected, on a much 

 weather-worn block, defaced sculpturing of the same family 

 character as those in Northumberland — Plate XI. ^ jig, 6. 

 There are five concentric circles, central cup, radial grooves, 

 and a string of cups around the outer circle. Forty years ago 

 this stone was built into the wall of a house ; but whence it 

 originally came is not known. Doubtless it belongs to the 

 district, and probably had been connected with an interment. 



VI. SUMMARY OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND INSCRIPTIONS. 



From this survey, we find that fifty-three sculptured 

 stones have been observed in Northumberland, and that there 

 are inscribed on them about three hundred and fifty figures. 

 All of them are more or less connected with ancient British 

 remains. Four of them formed the covers of cists ; four were 

 probably covers of cists ; two are within a few yards of bar- 

 rows, beneath which are similar small sepulchral chambers ; 

 five of them are within ancient British camps ; eight of them 

 are not more distant from such camps than 100 yards, most 

 of the others are less distant than half-a-mile, and none 

 further away than a mile. Their relation, however, to the 

 camps, forts, and hut circles — the dwellings of the ancient 

 British people — is more apparent than to their sepulchres. 



VII. INSCRIBED STONES IN OTHER PARTS OF 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



Before attempting any further generalisation it is important 



