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Fig. 21. It has been subjected to such a degree of heat by its 

 fabricator, that it is glazed, and is of the pale yellow of a grey- 

 beard, and somewhat of its compact texture. In our drive after 

 passing up the Shartley Burn to its exit from Hazelton Rig dean, 

 and beyond Screnwood farm, to the eastward, we saw at 



Fig. 21. 



a little distance across a field the site of the sandstone quarry 

 where it had been turned up when the rubbish was removed at 

 the top. Fronting us was a steep cultivated hill-face called the 

 Screnwood Park or Parks, on the ridge of which towards the east 

 and out of sight once stood Black Chesters camp. On the north 

 of this great grassy slope, between steepish and not very high 

 green banks, the quarry was situated on the northern bank. 

 The intervening burn descends to the infant Aln, near the green 

 mound with lines of old fortification, opposite Alnham vicarage 

 and church. Black Chesters camp, to which it is nearer than 

 Castle hill, is represented in Armstrong's Map of Northumber- 

 land, 1769, as a large square fortification of the Roman type. 



