Further Notes on Alnham. By James Hardy. 549 



I have passed througli and been among these places, hut 

 never actually set my foot on them, except at Burradon, in 1868. 

 In the beginning of August 1867, I had an opportunity of 

 botanising in Hazelton-rig Wood above Alnham, reaching it 

 from Pr end wick, and there found Car ex muricata. (Club's 

 Proc. V. p. 382 ; and vi. p. 54). It was the Prendwick lamb 

 sale, an extremely cold day, after a thunderstorm accompanied 

 with hail. A dead chimney swallow, perished by the blast, was 

 picked up on the public road between the plane-trees avenue at 

 Prendwick. On this occasion I had not time to descend to the 

 Castle Hill at Alnham, or " Yilldam,'' as the people call it. Two 

 years ago I was close behind Hazelton-rig hill, and also Hogden 

 Law, but my walks pointed in an opposite direction. I then, 

 however, picked up a few scattered notices, which may serve as 

 way-marks for more minute investigations. My information was 

 obtained from three different parties. 



A shepherd found two gold coins, said to be of Queen 

 Anne, in " the neck of Hogden Law" ; the Duke of North- 

 umberland obtained one, and Dr Scott of Yetholm the other. 



At Castle Hill near Hazelton-rig, in 1881, in erecting a new 

 sheep enclosure, a silver buckle prettily ornamented was turned up. 

 Pigdon's Leap at Hazelton-rig is a wide chasm, which Pigdon 

 a thief, when pursued by a convocation of the country people, 

 cleared at one bound, and so managed to escape while his pur- 

 suers lost time, being checked by the obstacle. 



A blue-coloured stone celt or axe was found of recent years on 

 Clennell by a young man. 



At Sharperton Edge some one found a crook conjectured to 

 have been used in a brewery or distillery. 



At Hepple a man found what was called an Elk's horn, as 

 thick as one's arm : probably a Ked-deer antler. Other antlers 

 of the kind have been obtained there in " redding " a limestone 

 quarry. Mr Dixon has some of them. They are fragments of 

 Eed-deer antlers ; but not particularly large. 



The largest fossil Red-deer antler of the large ancient type 

 ever seen in the neighbourhood was got at the bottom of a 

 drain, while it was being cut at Alwinton, in or near the field 

 belonging to Mr Burn. 



This miscellaneous collection, inclusive of news about the urn 

 now fortunately figured, from a drawing by Mr J. T. Dixon, 

 was all the information that I could obtain on the Kidland side 

 of the hills. 



