270 On Urns and Antiquities of the Che clot Hills. 



I asked our learned and accomplished co-member to supplement 

 the list, and he cordially consented ; but I soon found the sub- 

 ject was more extensive than space could be spared for it at 

 present, and for this valuable addition we must await a further de- 

 velopment of the still unused materials. I had also to exclude 

 Mr Tate's account of the urns on Beanley Moor, and within the 

 precincts of Alnwick parish. There is as yet an uncertainty 

 about the allocation of some of his figures, and some of them 

 appear to be lost. But there is ample room in the district for 

 the formation of other groups, if the Club can afford the means 

 for supplying the illustrations. 



I have done little more than act as editor for the memoranda 

 here assembled. After completion I am surprised at the little 

 I have personally collected, and how very disconnected the 

 incidents are. I have recently been across much of the ground, 

 or where not, know it from former journeyings. The statements 

 are as exact as can be ascertained. When information has got 

 scattered over a series of years, and among a diversity of ob- 

 servers, it is not so readily obtainable, as to be pieced up in a 

 continuous whole. We are rather given to estimate this kind of 

 antiquities by the cost and trouble given in disclosing them in 

 certain great centres, and to neglect the equally good examples 

 that come unexpectedly to light casually ; and hence the memory 

 of these small finds fades out. It is the purport of this paper to 

 gather up such dispersed fragments, and not to deduce conclusions. 



In bringing forward this collection of antiquities, I have been 

 fortunate to have had the assistance of societies and individuals 

 to an extent that I never was favoured with before in any paper 

 I have undertaken. Some of my obligations will appear under 

 the separate entries, but others require special mention and 

 acknowledgment. Information, specimens, photographs, and 

 drawings, were contributed by Mr James G. Moffatt, Lilburn 

 Cottage ; Mr A. J. Cottle, Bailway Contractor ; Mr Frank 

 Haseldine, Nottingham ; Bev. Canon Ilderton ; Mr James Thom- 

 son, Shawdon ; Mr Henry P. Taylor, Aberdeen ; Eev. James 

 Blythe, Greenville; Mr Eobert Blair, F.S.A.; Mr John Brown, 

 Alnwick Castle (liberty being granted by his Grace the Duke 

 of Northumberland) ; Mr C. H. Eead, F.S.A., of the British 

 Museum ; Mr Eobert Murray, Edinburgh ; and especially by Mr 

 J. T. Dixon, Eothbury. For electros and original blocks I have 

 to thank Dr John Evans, F.S.A., for those selected from his clas- 



