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coarse manufacture, without ornament, jar-shaped, and con- 

 taining bones, were found. On exposure to the air they 

 fell to pieces. On a neighbouring hill opposite Roddam Rigg 

 House, three other urns were discovered, which also contained 

 bones." 



Percy's Leap, Hedgeley Moor. 



Following the Boman Road, or "Devil's Causeway" (Eastern 

 Watling Street), at Percy's Leap, near where the battle of 

 Hedgeley Moor was fought in 1463, between the rival factions 

 of York and Lancaster, a hammer-stone with a sort of "waist' 

 chipped in it was picked up, and is now preserved in the Museum 

 of Antiquities, at Alnwick Castle, — see Pig. 7, which is an 

 electro. " The length 

 is 3£ inches. The 

 ends are not correct 

 circles sectionally, but 

 are in diameters 2g- 

 by 2£ inches respect- 

 ively." (Mr George 

 Eeavell, jun.) This 

 hammer-stone is re- 

 ferred to by Dr Evans, 

 " Stone and Flint 

 Implements," p. 211, piq. 7. 



who reproduces from 



the Archaeological Journal, vol. X., p. 64, a specimen found 

 with two others at Burns, near Ambleside, Westmoreland, 

 somewhat similar in size and form. 



Mr Tate makes a memorandum of a stone celt from Percy's 

 Leap, but he does not give either an outline figure, or any 

 reference to the present place of deposit. It is, he says, "of a 

 laminated sand-stone, such as is seen near to trap rocks, fine 

 grained, chiefly formed of quartz and felspar. This also occurs 

 as a boulder in the drift." 



Besides these marks of ancient occupancy, and instances of 

 brave men having fought here before the Percies, a very 

 valuable discovery was made in the same historical neighbour- 

 hood, of a copper battle-axe or celt. I am permitted to 

 borrow an account of it, from the Catalogue of the Alnwick 

 Castle Museum, p. 45, of which it is No. 189, where it is 

 figured Plate XY. a. fig. 5. The figure given here is in 

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