288 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



of Mr Coulson of Corbridge and of a number of the members of 

 the Club, especially of the secretary, Mr Tate, by whom the 

 whole of what was revealed has been so fully and so adequately 

 commemorated. (See Club's Hist., vol. IV., pp. 293-316, with 

 five Plates.) A portion of the ground is also mapped in 

 MacLauchlan's Survey, Sheet III. These diggings were " suc- 

 cessful in giving information respecting the rude masonry 

 of the walls, the form and style of dwellings, and the manner 

 in which towns were arranged and fortified in very early 

 periods ; and though the relics found were not numerous, yet all 

 of them were interesting and some were novel additions to our 

 local antiquities." The results in barrow-opening are thus sum- 

 marily enumerated in Mr Tate's MS. Notes, 1861. "Ingram 

 Hill opposite Chesters Camp, three barrows opened, all showing 

 charred wood. Eeaveley Hill, a long barrow in a slack— had a 

 row of stones through the middle — charred wood found three feet 

 below the natural surface. Knock Hill, two large barrows 

 opened, only burnt wood ; to the north two opened — only burnt 

 wood. At Hartside and Greaves Ash several barrows were 

 opened, but nothing was found." 



One of the cairns opened on Ingram Hill, between 30 and 40 

 years before the Club's researches, was so immense that " it 

 supplied a sufficient quantity of stones to build the wall enclosing 

 the South plantation, which has an area of 5 acres." " Beneath 

 it was fouud an urn of the shape and with the scorings which 

 characterise Celtic urns." " Celtic " is the term applied by Mr 

 Tate to work of aboriginal tribes indiscriminately. 



Domestic pottery was found at Greaves Ash, Chesters (on 

 Prendwick estate), and Brough Law, " of the coarsest kind, 

 made of common clay, out of which even the pebbles had not 

 been removed." In a hut circle of Chesters Camp, a glass bead, 

 " globular, perforated in the centre, translucent, of a light green 

 colour, and three-fourths of an inch in diameter," was obtained. 

 (B.N.C. Proc. IV., Plate 8, Pig. 6.) A fragment of translucent 

 glass — Pig. 7 — was found in a hut at Greaves Ash. A spear or 

 javelin head — Plate 8, Pig. 3 — of common flint was found in 

 Chesters Camp. " It is of simple broad lanceolate form, 3 inches 

 long, and 1£ inch broad, flat on the one surface but with a sharp 

 conical ridge on the other." Two fragments with cutting edges 

 were also picked up within this camp, one of common flint, and 

 the other of " ribboned jasper." Part of the antler of a red deer 



