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The Antiquities of Yevering Bell and Three Stone Burn, 

 among the Cheviots in Northumberland, with an account of 

 Excavations made into Celtic Forts, Hut dwellings, Bar- 

 rows and Stone Circle. By George Tate, F.G.S., 

 Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries in 

 Scotland, &c. 



Few places in Northumberland have attracted more atten- 

 tion than Yevering Bell, one of the hills forming the northern 

 termination of the porphyritic range of the Cheviots. Its 

 old written history, beginning with the Venerable Bede, and 

 its older unwritten history, as seen in its great stone walls, 

 its hut circles, and mounds have given rise to much specula- 

 tion among antiquaries. Every tourist too and pleasure- 

 seeker, who rambles along the Borders, must climb to its 

 summit, pore over its mysterious monuments and enjoy the 

 extensive and rich view it commands. 



There is a beauty in its shape — a cone truncated at the 

 top, and separated by valleys and deep ravines, from the 

 other hills with which it is connected. Though in altitude 

 only about 1500 feet, yet rising steeply from the low lying 

 plain of Millfield, its height appears greater. Cheviot is 

 higher by more than 1000 feet, yet the view from Yevering 

 is more varied and distinct, and comprehends more elements 

 of beauty and interest, than that seen from the monarch of 

 the range. The waters of the Glen, hallowed in imagina- 

 tion, because used to initiate the early Saxon converts into 

 the Christian Church, almost wash the base of the hill, and 

 wind their way through the richly cultured plain of Mill- 

 field to join the sluggish Till, whose serpentine course can 

 be traced throughout this plain to the silver Tweed. The 

 eye wanders over the Doddington range of hills on the 

 north, and sees the rocky Fame and sacred Lindisfarne ; 

 while in other directions, in the far distance, we descry the 

 three-peaked Eildon, Dunse law, and the Lammermuir hills. 

 Towns, villages, castles, pele towers, churches, and battle 

 fields give a human interest to the scene. On the flanks of 

 Homildon hard by, Henry Lord Percy, in 1402, defeated 

 10,000 Scots under Lord Douglas ; and at " Geteryne " the 

 Scots were again overthrown in 1415 by Sir Robert Umfra- 

 ville ; and but two miles further west lies Flodden Field, on 

 which in 1513, King James IV. of Scotland and the flower 

 of his nobility perished. 



The earliest notice of Yevering is given by Bede. After 



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