308 Mr. Tate on the Celtic Town at Greaves Ash. 



is said, that a necklace was suspended from it composed oi' 

 three ohlong and nine conical beads, made of jet or cannel 

 coal. As such beads are characteristic ornaments of. the 

 Celtic race, we may safely infer, that our armlet has adorned 

 the fair form of one of the ancient British females, who lived 

 at a remote period in the valley of the Breamish. And this 

 conclusion as to its antiquity is strengthened by information 

 given by Mr. Albert Way, F.A. S., who has informed me, 

 that he has seen similar glass armlets in Switzerland, which 

 were found with relics from the so called bronze period. 



There is no distinct evidence however of glass beads or 

 armlets being of native manufacture ; probably they were im- 

 ported by the Phoenicians, who from an early period traded 

 with Britain for its tin. 



Stone Weapo7is and Instruments. — The stone weapon — 

 Plate 8, Jig. 3 — found in the Chesters camp, is a spear or 

 javelin head made of common flint, and it is of simple broad 

 lanceolate form, 3 inches long and 1| inches broad, flat on 

 the one surface but with a sharp central ridge on the other. 

 Aflixed to the end of a pole, it might be either thrust or 

 thrown against an enemy. The point is broken, and doubt- 

 less, this rude weapon has been used and done mischief in its 

 day. Flint does not occur in Northumberland; but there 

 were, in several parts of Britain, manufactories of stone wea- 

 pons ; one was at Newton, in the county of Durham, where 

 flint implements appear in all stages of manufacture.* 



Two other fragments of stone, with cutting edges, were 

 found within the Chesters camp ; they are only about half an 

 inch in length, and seem portions of stone knives ; one of 

 them is made of common flint, but the other is of ribboned 

 jasper — a mineral occasionally occurring in the district. 



Horns and Bones. — Part of the horn of the Ceivus Elaphas 

 — the red deer — was found in the Western Fort at Greaves 

 Ash ; and the root portion of another, of a large size, was dug 

 out of the Chesters camp near the south side of the rampier. 

 Living, as we know the ancient Britons did, partly on the 

 spoils of the chase, such relics might be expected in their 

 dwellings among the Cheviots, where the deer ran wild even 

 in mediaeval times and tempted to the " woeful hunting " 

 immortalised in the Chevy Chase. Hartside has taken its 

 name from the deer, which in the Saxon period bounded over 

 these hills. The remains of a horse found at the Chester 

 consist of the humerus and a few teeth, 



* Longstaffe's Durham before the Conquest, p. 50. 



