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side is drawn from." It is 24 inches long — may have been 26 ; 

 handle 4 inches long ; narrowest part of handle \ inch ; butt-end 

 1^- inch broad ; widest part of sword above handle 2 inches ; 

 broadest part of sword-blade 1£ inch ; 4 rivet holes on handle, 

 placed 2 transversely, and 1, 1, perpendicularly. The details 

 are from an outline drawing of full size. 



"At a short distance westward of the spot," writes Mr Tate, 

 "where the weapons were lying are the remains of an ancient 

 fortlet, having three strong rampiers with intervening ditches, 

 and presenting characters usually marking Celtic camps. This 

 circular camp facing the west, is on that part of the hill called 

 ' The Preacher's Knowe.'" This camp is figured in Sheet III. of 

 Mr MacLauchlan's Survey. 



"The parallelism," continues Mr Tate, "and the direction of 

 the swords suggested that they might be a sepulchral deposit, 

 but I could discern neither cist nor bones, nor any other relics 

 indicative of a sepulchre." 



Dr John Evans, in his " Bronze Implements of Great Britain 

 and Ireland," p. 285, indicates these three swords, which by some 

 misrepresentation he says were found at Branton, which is on 

 the opposite side of the Breamish ; and likewise states that they 

 are now in the Alnwick Museum, which is a mistake. What has 

 become of Mr James' example has not been ascertained. 



Mr Tate concludes by saying that " there are several barrows 

 on Brandon farm, about 2£ miles westward from the village. 

 Some of them have been opened and cists enclosing ashes found." 



Greenville. 



We must now cross the Breamish to Greenville, the residence 

 and property of the Rev. James Blythe, Presbyterian minister 

 of Branton, which lies between Glanton and Branton. Here a 

 very beautiful small clay urn, like a little tea-cup in size, is pre- 

 served by Mr Blythe, almost unique for its simple adornment 

 combined with a neat form. A figure of it drawn in pen-and-ink 

 by Mr Henry P. Taylor, now of Aberdeen, will give an idea of its 

 appearance — Fig. 11. The chevron ornament is in scorings, not 

 in dots. I examined the urn in 1885 in company with Mr W. 

 T. Hindmarsh. Mr Blythe has obliged me with the following 

 notice of it, of date May 5, 1886. 



"In regard to the little urn in my possession, I find its di- 

 mensions are— diameter at top, 3| inches ; at bottom 1^- inch ; 



