200 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



Ewahtly Shank, on Alnham Moor. 

 Although the results of these operations were comparatively 

 meagre in the revealing of objects of ancient art, some detached 

 articles of considerable importance have been accidentally disclosed 

 since the Club's attempt to dispel the mystery surrounding these 

 fine groups of native settlements, not very remote from their pre- 

 cincts, and which may well have appertained to some of the 

 inmates, who had either lost them on the mountains, or in the 

 marshes, or had cast them away or buried 

 them in a period of great dismay or disaster. 

 Some years since, when draining the bogs on 

 Alnham Moor, near Ewartly Shank, which 

 stands on a tributary stream that enters the 

 Breamish at Alnham Moor Shepherd's house, 

 the under portion of a small bronze caldron 

 was dug: out, which is in the possession of Mr 

 Henry H. Scott, at Alnham House,where I saw 

 it, along with other friends, in June 1885. It 

 is of very thin bronze plate, all of one piece. 

 Several of the large rivet holes by which the 

 upper portion was attached, remain. The 

 bottom is finely watered, like watered silk. Mr 

 Scott's measurements of it are — diameter at 

 mouth, 17 inches; depth, 10 inches. Mr 

 Scott kindly sent the caldron to Mr John Turn- 

 bull Dixon, Eothbury, who has. taken great 

 pains to furnish an accurate representaton of 

 this ancient culinary vessel — see Fig. 12, p. 289. 

 It has no connection with illicit distillation, for 

 which this rarely visited outlandish region was 

 once notorious. 



Blakehope. 

 At Blakehope, above Linhope, which is still 

 farther withdrawn into the centre of the pass 

 that intervenes between the spurs of Hedge- 

 hope and Cheviot, and the round-headed 

 Shill-moor, where ran as early as the time of 

 Henry III. and Edward I., the " Theves 

 Bode," still termed the " Salter's Road," from 

 its being one of the routes of those adven- 

 turers who smuggled salt across the Borders 

 into England, and probably always adopted 

 Fig. 13. as a line of communication between the north 



