29G On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



a reniform figure incised on its inside. The third held a cinerary 

 urn reversed, of which the ornament had been in a pattern of 

 chevrons made with twisted thong. The fourth contained a 

 food- vessel, with four unpierced ears at the shoulder, which was 

 " with one exception, the most beautiful specimen of its class, 

 both in fabric and ornamentation," that Canon Greenwell had 

 ever met with. A most unusual feature was that it was 

 ornamented on the bottom with a cross, " formed by two trans- 

 verse lines, with a series of dots along each side of the limbs." 

 It is figured in Fig. 71 of " British Barrows." 



A fifth cist held a food vessel, with four unpierced ears at the 

 shoulder, which was ornamented all over with a "rather carelessly 

 drawn herring-bone pattern." There was still a sixth cist 

 having a food vessel in it, having no ears. The upper part 

 to a depth of 2£ inches was ornamented with a herring-bone 

 pattern of finely drawn lines, the rest of the vase being plain. 

 In the part of the funeral mound that still remained, were two 

 chippings of flint, and a "thin disk of fine grained sandstone, 

 2£ inches in diameter, and h inch in thickness, with a shallow 

 depression at the centre on each side." It was not a "tool-stone." 

 (For the full particulars of this valuable discovery, see " British 

 Barrows," pp. 422-425: Oxford, 1877.) It is not our object to 

 follow the learned author across the Coquet ; the present refer- 

 ence being to complete our survey in this quarter. 



Hepple Kirk Hill. 



The name Hepple has descended to us with Anglo-Saxon 

 antecedents — as Hephale, the hall or mansion of the heap. The 

 heap may have been a tumulus. The latter part of the word has 

 no connection with peel or pele. The name preceded the stage 

 when that class of defensive towers 'became necessary, by the 

 aggressions of the English kings on the sister kingdom. On the 

 Kirk Hill of Hepple, H- mile west of Hepple, there had been 

 both pagan and Christian burials. Mr Tate notifies that at the 

 Kirk Hill, Mr Wilson (I suppose the farmer), found several 

 urn*. This might be about 1862. I observe that Canon Green- 

 well has obtained an urn found near Hepple. It was "a very 

 small food vessel, with 4 perforated ears, being only l£ inches 

 high, 2-| inches wide at the mouth, and If inches at the bottom, 

 on which is a cross of twisted thung impressions." It is figured 

 in Fig. 79 of "British Barrows," p. 424. 



