302 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



Trewhitt Hall and High Trewhitt. 



Resuming Mr MacLauchlan's route of the Roman Way, from 

 the ' Chesters,' he says : " Our line now becomes more apparent 

 on the top of the hill, in a field called the Ewe Kill, south of 

 some fir trees, where it runs straight over the Wreigh Brook, 

 across the grounds of Trewhitt Hall. Mr John Bolam pointed 

 out where it had been ploughed up on Ewe Hill. An old 

 resident at High Trewhitt pointed out where it crossed the 

 road from Netherton to Rothbury in the hollow, about 650 yards 

 south-east of Trewhitt Hall ['when taken up in front of my 

 house, I measured the breadth at 14 feet' — Mr Smart,] and 

 gave as its line of direction where it would cross the Wreigh 

 Burn. About 350 yards west of the Wreigh Burn, close to the 

 boundary between Trewhitt and Burradon, and on the Trew- 

 hitt side of it is an oval mound of about 60 yards square. It is 

 probable that this is an ancient tumulus ; there are several stones 

 placed on the moor not far from this tumulus, which have the 

 appearance of having been there for a long time." (Memoir, pp. 

 51-2.) There are now no traces of the circular camp on Robert's 

 Law, Trewhitt Hall, mentioned in Club's Proc, vol. X., p. 546. 

 Mr MacLauchlan could find no remains of any entrenchment 

 when he surveyed it (lb. p. 52) ; so rapidly do superficial earth- 

 works subside under repeated cultivation. 



Netherton. 

 I had not the opportunity of examining the banks of the 

 Wreigh Burn below Netherton, to ascertain whether or not there 

 were any indication of tumuli, but I saw the inequalities and 

 knolls on its margins above the village, and where the Alnwick 

 turnpike crosses, and they consist of boulder clay and gravel, 

 and are not artificial. According to Mackenzie, who wrote before 

 1825, some years before that date, " a large tumulus was opened 

 between Netherton and Biddleston. It contained an urn with 

 ashes and charcoal, placed, after the manner of the Britons, 

 within four stones and a cover." (Hist, of Northd. II., p. 44.) 



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In company with Mr Dodds, Biddleston, and Mr James Thom- 

 son, Shawdon, I visited Netherton, May 26th 1886, to see the 

 small urn, described by Mr D. D. Dixon in the Club's Proo. X. 

 pp. 544-6. It is very fairly represented in the cut, here repeated 



