56 Report of Meetings for 1879, by James Hardy. 



torse. At one period tlie lands of Fairneyside and Houndwood 

 belonged to the same proprietor ; and it is possible that the two 

 exchanges form a part of one transaction ; or at least that the 

 one or other might afford a precedent. 



I have found, after the first portion of the report had gone to 

 press, the original notice of the discovery of the urn near Hound- 

 wood, in the Berwick Advertiser, October 9, 1868, and it is 

 advisable to preserve what the finder says about it. " On Satur- 

 day last (October 3) whilst the workmen, who are at present en- 

 gaged in removing a sandbank at Houndwood Lye for ballast 

 for railway purposes, came upon an urn filled with human bones. 

 It is 15 inches deep, and 12 inches wide, is formed of coarse 

 baked clay, and is in very good preservation. The bones have 

 a charred appearance, and when exposed to the air crumble 

 down. This is the sixth of the same sort that has been found 

 near the same spot, but those formerly found were so much 

 damaged that they could not be removed." 



Misled by Mr Eiddell-Carre (Border Memories, pp, 252, 253) 

 I have mis-stated both the Christian name and the date of the 

 decease of the eminent medical descendant of Henry Hall of 

 Haughhead, on the Kale. The authenticity of the obituary 

 notice in Constable's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. xiv., p. 640, 

 maybe more relied on. "April 24, 1824, at Chelsea, Eobert 

 Hall, M.D., late Surgeon to the Forces, a descendant of the 

 ancient Border family of the Halls of Newbiggen [Parish of 

 Oxnam], and great grandson of Henry Hall of Haughhead, the 

 celebrated Covenanter, who fought at Bothwell Bridge, Drum- 

 clog, &c." 



