148 Rev. Wm. Procter, jun., on Doddington. 



To pass from the natural features of Doddington to a brief 

 notice of those who have occupied it, and of the remains and 

 traces of their occupation, we must mention first the people 

 who, in prehistoric times, lived in the camps or fortified 

 villages on the top of Dod Law and other high points close 

 by ; who carved the cup and ring markings on the adjoining 

 rocks, and whose remains, together with their urns and flint 

 weapons, we find in the stone cists which are from time to 

 time brought to light, and under the barrows which protect 

 them. It is for others to say of what family they were. 

 They have left many indications of an eastern origin, and it 

 is interesting to find that some of the Hill Tribes of India, to 

 this day, inscribe on rocks, which they wish to mark as 

 sacred, figures very like those which these ancient inhabitants 

 of Britain cut upon the rocks connected with their habitations. 

 There are four large camps on Doddington ground — one on 

 the top of Dod Law, a double camp ; the two parts being 

 nearly contiguous. There is also a large enclosure, joining 

 the principal part of the camp, and there are several hut 

 circles in it and round it. The other Doddington camps are, 

 the Ringses camp, about a mile north from the Dod Law 

 camp ; the Wrangham camp, a mile north of the Ringses ; 

 and the Routing Lynn camp, three miles north-west from 

 Wrangham. Near the Dod Law camp, are two smaller 

 ones on Horton ground. Within a few yards of one of these, 

 on the Doddington side of the march dyke, are three stand- 

 ing stones, the remains evidently of a " Druidical" circle. 

 Within a very short distance of these Doddington camps, are 

 the camps at Weetwood, Nesbit, and Fenton Hill. There 

 are several barrows on the Dod Law, and adjoining hills; 

 some have been opened recently, but probably not for the 

 first time, as no traces of burial have been found ; but from 

 one, close to the Dod Law camp, a stone, forming" part of a 

 cist and marked with the ring and cup carving, was taken, 

 and is now at Alnwick Castle. Of other remains, found in 

 cists, there is little to record. Two cists, with unburnt 

 bones, were found about twelve years ago near Lord Durham's 

 woodman's lodge. On the Gled Law, two urns have, I know, 

 been found — one long ago, which I only heard of as having 

 been broken up summarily ; another, much injured by having 

 been ploughed over, I picked up in 1864. 1 have still the 

 remains of it. It contained dark soil and pieces of charred 

 wood and unburnt bone. In 1867, a cist was uncovered by 



