528 Notes on Urns and Cists found at A mhle. 



seems to be still advancing as on one occasion it broke into the 

 quarry covering everything up. Old salt pans, which had been 

 cut out of the rock, can be seen at low water, to the east of the 

 present ones. 



The Priory of Tynemouth had the tithes of " Ambell" among 

 other places in Northumberland, granted to it by Earl Eobert 

 (ante a.d. 1093.) and confirmed to them by Henry I. In 1292, 

 as appears from the Tynemouth Chartulary " Ambell " was of 

 the annual value of 105s. After the Reformation, Dudley, Earl 

 of Warwick, and first Duke of Northumberland, obtained a 

 grant of the site, demesne lands and possessions of the monks of 

 Tynemouth. The coal mines were valued at 41s. per annum ; 

 the site of a salt pan at 4s. per annum. (See '* Gibson's 

 Monastery of Tynemouth.") 



Coals are now exported from Amble in large quantities from 

 the neighbouring collieries, and salt is still manufactured. 

 Half way between the village and the ancient British barrow, 

 is the modern Cemetery, or ''God's acre" for the parish, pro- 

 bably in it there may be found stone " Cists" or " Vaults " as 

 they are now termed ; and thus the instincts of to-day and two 

 thousands years ago are found to harmonize. The Pagan 

 refused to believe in annihilation, and the Christian has the 

 " sure and certain hope " that is derived from Eevelation. 



G. H. T. 



The first three figures in Plate iii, are from photographs fur- 

 nished by Mr Thompson, which, however, were not sufficiently 

 distinct ia the minute features ; but it served as a foundation 

 for the lithograph in which the artist has very exactly re- 

 produced the photos. Fig. 4 is from the pencil of Mr Middlemas 

 who also supplied guiding drawings of the other three. Plate 

 IV. is an example of an Ink-photo. In any future discoveries, 

 if there is no one present to take a sketch, the first stap should 

 be to secure photographs, as accurate drawings can be taken 

 from them. 



Already at p. 288 of the present vol. of ' Proceedings ' a 

 reference has been made to an account of Ancient Graves near 

 Amble by the late Eev. J. W. Dunn, contributed to the " Arch- 

 seologia JEliana," vol. iii. pp. 36-38. On re-examining the 

 paper, to which I had not then access, I find from the figure 



