282 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



miniature from a full size drawing by Mr John Brown — see 

 Kg. 8. 



Simple Axes. "An axe of the most simple type [was] 

 found in draining a moss on Hedgely 

 Moor, and near ' Percy's Leap.' It lay 

 at the depth of about 4 feet. It is a 

 good example of the early form, of which 

 the stone-axe may be regarded as the 

 prototype, and it is remarkable as being 

 formed of a reddish coloured metal, 

 which is probably copper in a pure or 

 nearly pure state. Celts of copper are 

 rare in England, but they are not 

 unfrequent in Ireland. Length, 4|- 

 inches ; breadth of the cutting edge, 2| 

 inches." The breadth of the butt end is 

 lj inches. 



A cut of a still more simple form 

 of one of these implements, which is 

 ' ' evidently a reproduction in metal of 

 the common type of stone celts," has been most kindly lent me 

 by Mr Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. It forms one of the figures, 

 (p. 51, Fig. 71) in his "Half-hours among some English Anti- 

 quities," London 1880 — see Fig. 9. It is a 

 reproduction from Sir W. E. Wilde's 

 "Catalogue of the Antiquities in the 

 Museum of the Eoyal Irish Academy," 

 Dublin, 1861, p. 363, Fig. 245, No. 1. It 

 I ^'''■ , '^ | %&\v^l bears a great similarity to its stone prede- 



' ,,.'/ "','"' "'"'''^ „''"'•* cessors of the rudest description. The figure 



is one-half of the original, and "is only 

 Aths of an inch across the thickest portion, 

 and fines off to the edge all round. It was 

 presented by Lord Farnham." 



The surface of the Alnwick example is 

 finely transversely undulated. 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. .9, 



Gallowlaw Moor, Percy's Cross. 



" On the Callowlaw Moor, part of Beanley North Farm," says 

 Mr MacLauehlan, in a note to his Survey of Eastern Watling 

 Street, p. 24, "in the field in which Percy's Cross stands, a celt 

 was found in June 1861, in draining: it is about 4 inches long, 



