544 British Urn found at Screnwjod. ByD. D.Dixon. 



taken from drawings by a skilled draughtsman, perhaps from 

 the same source. Mr Tate described this small urn from No. 13 

 of the Catalogue of the Alnwick Castle Museum, where it 

 appears to be preserved. In noticing this urn, the Eev. James 

 Eaine, states, " an immense collection of vessels of this latter 

 description, more or less filled with bones, was discovered a few 

 years ago at Broomi-idge, near Ford Castle." Mr Tate else- 

 where mentions another cup-shaped urn, but not of the same 

 appearance as the one from Duddo, with two holes one below 

 the other under the brim, which was found at Broomridge ; and 

 another was said to be found at Ford. They have been called 

 " incense cups " from their analogy to similar vessels still sur- 

 viving in the funereal ceremonies of the middle ages. Mr L. 

 Jewitt ("Grave Mounds and their Contents," p. 105,) coajectares 

 that they were " small urns to receive the ashes of an infant, 

 perhaps sacrificed at the death of its mother."] 



[Mr Raine mentions that a small barrow at the foot of the 

 hill on which the Duddo stones stand, on the north side, much 

 levelled by the plough, has never been opened (* North Durham', 

 p. 318.) Mr Tate also refers in his notes to this barrow. Were 

 it not that statements in County Histories are apt to be firmly 

 believed, it is almost needle33 to correct the opinion that these 

 rude stones were erected in commemoration of a victory obtained 

 by the Earl of Northumberland and his brother Sir Henry 

 Percy in 1558, over a party of marauding Scots. — See Mackenzie's 

 Hist, of Northumberland, i. pp. 342-3. Richardson's Table 

 Book, IV. p. 116, where there is a figure. J. H.] 



British Urn found at Screnwood, near Alnham, Northum- 

 berland, with remarks on other Antiquities in that 

 neighbourhood. By D. D. Dixon. 



A FEW years ago while some quarrymen were clearing the 

 *' redd " from the bank top of a quarry at the east of Screnwood, 

 in the parish of Alnham, Northumberland, they struck upon a 

 stone lined grave containing the urn shewn in the accompanying 

 pen and ink sketch, but it was not until the summer of the 

 present year that the news of its existence reached the ears of 



