202 On Uvns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



Fig. 15. Two views of Bronze Celt. 



Henhole, Cheviot. 



Turning the corner of the main Cheviot, we have on a spur of 

 the hill, near Henhole, the place where a pair of massive mount- 

 ings of cast bronze were found in 'a bank of clay by Mr 

 Archibald Douglas, Hownam. "These singular objects," says 

 Dr Anderson," (of the form of which the engraving will supply 

 a better idea than any amount of description) are quite unlike 

 anything else that is known, and it is consequently impossible to 

 form any well-founded conjecture as to their use. They seem, 

 however, to be allied, by the characteristics of their form and 

 outline, to some of the harness or horse-trappings of the ' Late 

 Celtic period.'" (Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. 1880-1, p. 79). These 

 were intended by the finder to have been exhibited to the Club 

 at Morebattle, June 29th, 1879 (see Proc. vol. IX., p. 28), but 



