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of yellowish hard stone, axe-shaped at one end, and- pointed at 

 the other. It is now in the Museum at Alnwick Castle." It 

 is figured in the "Catalogue" at p. 17, No. 33, and is thus 

 characterised : "A celt or stone hatchet, found in draining 

 Gallowlaw moor, part of Beanley North Farm, in 1861. Bean- 

 ley Camp was no doubt an Ancient British fortification. The 

 celt is polished all over ; its cutting edge has been re-ground ; 

 its butt end is damaged by hammering. Length 5 inches, 

 breadth 2h inches." 



Mr Brown has favoured me with a full sized coloured figure, 

 which after undergoing transfusion through a pen and ink draw- 

 ing, is reproduced in diminished proportions in Plate VI., Fig. 

 I. Instead of being "yellowish" it is of a grey green colour. 

 It appears to be of some variety of greenstone, or possibly of 

 indurated slate. 



Beanley Camp here alluded to is about 1£ miles S.E. of Percy's 

 Cross, a mile N.E. of Crawley, and a mile E. of Watling street. 

 "This camp," say the Alnwick MSS., "is oval, being about 66 

 paces long, and 50 wide ; it is the north-west part of the planta- 

 tion, and an ancient road is plainly to be traced up the hill to it. 

 In the vicinity of the camp, the stones have the appearance of 

 circular ruins, as if they had been the stone floors and foun- 

 dations of small rude huts, or sheelines, in more pastoral times, 

 before this part of the moor was planted." (Survey of the 

 Eastern Watling Street, p. 24, Note). 



Brandon White House. 

 "At Brandon White House," writes Mr Tate in his MS. Notes, 

 "in the Middle field on a high gravel hill, a tumulus was opened 

 in 1827. Having been repeatedly ploughed over it was lox. 

 There were, however, found a cist formed of sandstones with a 

 bottom stone — an urn which was broken— bones {not burnt), 

 several teeth perfect; but the other bones mouldered away on 

 exposure. The cist was five feet long. Something like an iron- 

 spear in fragments of from a few to 10 inches in length was also 

 discovered. The head of the body was laid to the south-west. 

 Camps of a circular form are distant about 300 yards from the 

 sepulchre." 



Brandon. 



Mr Tate's Journal of date August 5, 1857, contains his account 

 of Bronze Swords ploughed up on Brandon Hill. He first heard 



