298 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



ancient settlement ; there is a tumulus planted with, trees a little 

 west of the house ; and about a quarter of a mile further west, 

 on the north side of a rivulet, a eist was dug up, formed of large 

 flagstones placed in the form of a rectangle, with a large stone 

 as a cover, and within the cist was an urn containing ashes and 

 bones. The name of the tumulus is Maiden Knowe. Low Trew- 

 itt is on the west bank of the Wreigh brook." 



Burradon. 



The better to supply the means for future investigation, I shall 

 quote from Mr MacLauchlan's "Memoir," who alone truly 

 describes this part of the country, what he has to say about the 

 portion of themiddle Roman Way from Rochester to nearThrunton 

 from its crossing the Coquet to the precincts of Burradon, where 

 several British remains have been disclosed, and afterwards the 

 relation of the way to High Trewhitt. 



On the south, side of the Coquet, "the road makes a bend to the north- 

 ward at the entrenchment [of Lanternside Camp,] and is visible at the 

 entrance to Campville, and also towards the Lady's Well. It becomes 

 more difficult to trace about 150 yards before we reach it, and continues so 

 for some distance past it. It must have gone exceedingly close to the well, 

 probably on its northern edge." "We find a few yards uncovered in 

 making a ditch to the fence which divides a field of Wood Hall estate from 

 the Holystone Common." 



"Across the river it would be useless to look for the road, and indeed on 

 the Sharperton side we have no certain grounds for our opinion that it 

 crossed a field called the Croft ; but it will appear very probable that it 

 continued a nearly straight course, avoiding the mouth of one small rill on 

 the south, and nearly touching the source of another, at a spring or pond 

 about 260 yards from the upper farm-house at Sharperton. It is con- 

 jectured that it then followed the line of fence to the eastward, since it 

 was pointed out by the tenant at Sharperton Edge, where he had ploughed 

 it up, about 440 yards north of Charity Hall, and 220 north of a clump of 

 trees. It is still to be seen where the Burro wdon Road leaves the Shar- 

 perton Edge Road ; and this Burrowdon Road traverses the Roman Road 

 diagonally a distance of about 640 yards, the latter continuing nearly 

 straight to a farm-house called Burrowdon Middle Bank, which it passes a 

 few yards on the north, and Burrowdon Windy Side, a few yards on the 

 south." 



" About 400 yards south of this, and about 200 yards north-west of the 

 farm-house called Lark Hall, or Burrowdon East Bank, we find a field called 

 the Chesters ; and adjoining it on the west, in the next farm, three other 

 fields also called Chesters, these declining towards the stream [Foxton Burn 

 may be meant ;] that on the summit of the hill commanding an extensive 

 prospect, and a great part of our line. Though we cannot hear that it ever 



