260 Report of Meetings. By James Hardy. 



Culley, Esq. 3. " On the Signification of tlie name Lindisfarne." 

 By E. Carr-Ellison, Esq., F.S.A., of Dunstan Hill. 4. Geolo- 

 gical Papers and Sections by Mr David Carr, Felkington, con- 

 sisting of— (1st) " Breaks of the Coal Measures to the Tweed 

 and the Till for three miles." (2d) "A section of the Kyloe 

 Hills, from Fenwick, N.E. of the Hills to the Low." (3d) "A 

 Section of the Face of the Hetton Limestone." 5. " On a 

 Recent Visit to Kidland, with an account of its Antiquities, 

 Botany, Zoology and Mineralogy." By James Hardy. 



Mr Gunn, Chief Magistrate of Dunse, showed and explained a 

 photograph of the singular tree-like appearance on his son's arm 

 after being struck by lightning. It was not like the twigs of a 

 yew tree, but closely resembled the dendritic figures on porphy- 

 ritic rocks, attributed to the action of manganese. Mr Robert 

 Eenton brought two very small stone balls found on Fans farm, 

 a few coins obtained in Coldingham churchyard, and a strange 

 monstrosity of the water hemlock ( Cicuta virosa). Mr Charles 

 Watson exhibited skins of the Bernicle Goose from Goswick, 

 and of the Arctic Tern from the same vicinity. 



One of the coins dug up in Coldingham churchyard, while 

 opening a grave, is an Anglo-Saxon (copper) styca. There is a 

 short cross as usual on the centre of each disc. The obverse 

 inscription reads : +EANBALD AR. i.e., Eanbald Archbishop ; 

 on the reverse is the moneyer's name -j-EODVLF. There were 

 two archbishops of York named Eanbald; the first died 10th 

 August, 796, and on the 14th August, four days after, the 

 second Eanbald was consecrated in the place of the other ; and 

 he received the pall 8th Sept., 797. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 

 sub annis). What intercourse there was between York and 

 Coldingham at that early period, it is impossible to say. Visit- 

 ants there might be to the shrine of St Ebba, and monasteries 

 were then a sort of hostelry for wayfarers. The coin being 

 found in the churchyard we may presume that it had some con- 

 nection with the monastic establishment here ; moreover it is a 

 church and not a regal coin. 



There is another coin I have got to mention, which was found 

 on Holy Island, but under what circumstances I am not informed. 

 This is a Gold Lion of James I., of Scotland, in good preserva- 

 tion. The obverse bears the Arms of Scotland (lion rampant 

 within a double tressure) in a lozenge shield, fleur-de-lis between 

 some of the words ; a medium crown : yl-A-COEVS. DE. IGRA- 



