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Jewitt, F.S.A., has termed them ("Half Hours with English 

 Antiquities," p. 90) which ma}' have contained the ashes of infants 

 buried with those of their mothers, in the belief that they would 

 partake of their care in the strange land to which, by death, 

 they were removed. ("Grave Mounds and their Contents," p. 

 107). The largest urn dug out at Lilburn Hill, in April 1886, 

 contained within it lying on its side, a diminutive urn of this 

 character, which has been extracted entire. Mr Jewitt says of 

 these vessels : "They are usually found in the mouths of the 

 larger cinerary urns, or close by them, and contain in most 

 instances the calcined bones of children." 



Be ANTON. 



Dr John Evans, in his great work, "The Stone Implements 

 of Great Britain and Ireland," p. 114, mentions that a celt of a 

 type with an oval butt-end, similar to one obtained at Laken- 

 heath, Suffolk, which he figures — Fig. 69 — was "found at Branton, 

 Northumberland," "and is in the collection of the Rev. W. 

 Greenwell, F.S.A." It is of porphyritic stone, 5^- inches long, 

 and 2-]- inches wide at the edge ; and is slightly oblique at the 

 edge. 



The Eev. James Blythe also picked up a bronze celt, " chisel " 

 he calls it, at Branton. He found it "when riding through the 

 village many years ago. I noticed something on wmich the sun 

 was shining bright, and dismounting I took up the chisel, which 

 had been found and thrown aside by some men who were putting 

 up a post for a gate. The chisel remained in my possession for 

 many years. When Canon Greenwell was forming his Anti- 

 quarian Museum, he saw it at my house, and I gave it to him." 



"A goodly number of Bronze Swords," Mr Blythe adds, 

 " Urns, and some Brass Pans have been found with other ancient 

 articles, from time to time in this neighbourhood, but I cannot 

 give you more information than you possess." 



Ingram, Eeaveley, Chestees, Greaves Ash, etc. 

 This conducts us in front of the extensive fortified hill settle- 

 ments of the Ancient Britons on or near the river Breamish on 

 Ingram, Eeaveley, Clinch, Eyle, Prendwick, Hartside, and 

 Greaves Ash, for the expense of the excavations among whose 

 remains the Club was indebted to the liberality of his Grace, 

 Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, under the superintendence 



