304 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



The name remains, but the camp has evaded modern search. Mr 

 M acLauchlan says : ' ' We think it improbable that any Eoman 

 camp should have so completely disappeared, though the situation 

 is good ; it is about 2^ miles to the north of our line." " I have 

 been at Alnham several times," says Sir David Smith, "in search 

 of these castramented remains ; I could neither find nor hear of 

 any at Black Chester." (Alnwick MSS. — MacLauchlan's Memoir, 

 p. 52, note.) 



Castle Hill, Alnham. 

 I here repeat — Fig. 22 — the representation of the large black 



Fig. 22. 



bead "of the size of a walnut," formerly in the possession of Mr 

 William Coulson, Corbridge, and noticed in Club's Proc. X. p. 548. 

 N.B. — There are said to be a very large quantity of unexplored grave 

 mounds on Hazelton Kig Ewe Hill, a little to the west of Pigdon Leap. 



Dancing Hall. 

 The next traces of the Eoman Eoad are about 1 00 yards south 

 of Lorbottle West Steads. I do not, however, intend to follow 

 its traces, or to mention the camps that it skirts, so long as no 

 work of art of any consequence has been found near its course. 

 That an urn had been obtained at Dancing Hall, I learn from an 

 entry in Mr Tate's Journal, dated 12/11/64. " Mr MacLauchlan 

 showed me to-day, relics found near Barrasford on the gravel 

 bank in the angle formed by the junction of Swinburn with the 

 North Tyne, which has been exposed by the Eailway cutting. 

 1, Fragments of bones seemingly not burnt, most probably 

 human. 2, A pretty large urn very coarsely made of clay by the 

 hand, of a common form like the one from Dancing Hall. The 

 ornamentation is very rude, mere indentations or strokes, per- 



