On the Incised Rocks at Morwick. 345 



At first I imagined that a party of wanderers sheltering here at 

 no great distance from the open sea, might have formed these 

 tracings during their involuntary detention ; but having subse- 

 quently learned that there are remnants of a British Camp on 

 the space behind the perpendicular cliff, it is rather I think to 

 the agency of its resident occupants that these improved exer- 

 cises in stone-cutting may be attributed. 



" There is very little trace," Miss Dand vrrites, " of any camp 

 left. A formed path three yards wide from and to the camp 

 slopes from west to east to the level of the river, leaving a 

 steep bank to the south, and a deeper bank from the height of 

 the path to the river. To the north this is the only feature of 

 manual formation, and is immediately to the east of the incised 

 rock. An extensive view," she continues, " can be had to the 

 north and west, but owing to the rising ground, only a short way 

 can be seen to the south and east. Two small ravines on the 

 west and east favour the idea that it might have been made a 

 strong position. It has been suggested that here was the site of 

 Hugh de Morwick's castle (the Norman possessor of the land), 

 but this is a mere conjecture, for I do not know of any tradition 

 bearing this out. Were this the fact it might account for the 

 disappearance of the outlines of the Camp. There are several 

 mounds running from north to south on the north side of the 

 river on Warkworth Moor. They may be merely owinff to 

 tracks worn at different ages to ' Pomfret's ford,' — now cor- 

 rupted into ' Paupers' ford' — a few yards to the east ; but they 

 are not unlike barrows." This suggestion must be left for 

 future inquiry. 



Miss Dand next proceeds to describe the figures in Plates III., 

 IV. and V. The plates are exact reproductions of her pen and 

 ink drawings. 



" The figures are scattered over the face of a perpendicular 

 grey sandstone rock on the south bank of the Coquet. Except- 

 ing in figures 1, 2, and 3 there seems no attempt at combination. 

 Figure 1 is the highest. Calling the rock about 30 feet high, 

 the spirals wiU be about 20 feet from the ordinary level of the 

 river. Figure 2 is on part of the rock facing east and is about 

 7 feet from the ground. The spirals here like those in figure 1 

 are of a uniform size and depth, about 3 inches in diameter and 

 cut into the rock about the 8th of an inch. In figure 4 the spiral 

 is larger being quite 5 inches in diameter, and curls the opposite 



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