308 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Bills. 



had a thick cover ; the stones are preserved at the farm." — Mac- 

 Lauchlan's Memoir, pp. 20, 21. Mr MacLauchlan remarks that 

 the circumstance of Thrunton having a remarkable well near it, 

 " called after St Ninian, may lead to the supposition that the spot 

 wasoccupiedas early as the 5th century," p.21. It discharges " 560 

 gallons of water per minute." [Whellan's Hist. Northd. p. 667.] 



Lemmington Hall. 



Mr James Thomson communicates the following : "In draining 

 around Lemmington Hall a few years ago, the drainers were 

 puzzled by finding a number of pits lined with rough boulder 

 flags. In some cases the flag stones that covered them were 

 broken, and the holes were partly filled with earth. It was only 

 after hearing of an urn being found in Bolton Chapel yard, that 

 it was discovered that the stone cists at Lemmington were con- 

 structed exactly like the one come upon there. The cists had no 

 bottom stones. There were no fragments of pottery in any of 

 them." 



In another letter, Mr Thomson states : "The sloping ground 

 on the right of the Lemmington bank road runs on to Lemmington 

 Hill. It was on a portion of this sloping ground near the Hall, 

 where the drainers came upon a great number of slab-built 

 graves. It is called 'The Pillar Planting.' It was formerly 

 covered with large timber, which was cut down about 18 or 20 

 years ago. Before re-planting it was drained, and it was then 

 that the graves were discovered." There are numerous fine 

 terraces of the ancient style of cultivation in close proximity to 

 Lemmington Hall, on the west side. 



Bolton Chapel- yard. 

 To Mr Thomson I also owe the following intelligence. "In 

 opening a grave to the north side of "Bolton Chapel, about four 

 feet below the surface, the grave-digger came upon what he 

 thought to be the end of a large conduit or drain, closed by a 

 flag-stone, the end being flush with the end of the grave. He 

 put his arm into the recess and found it empty. Unfortunately 

 he got a long-handled draw-hoe, and tried to ascertain how far 

 the supposed drain went ; and on drawing it out, a fragment of 

 a very finely marked British urn appeared. In his eagerness to 

 see if there were any gold ornaments or coins, he recklessly hauled 

 out the broken pieces of an urn or urns, so much broken that they 

 could not be pieced together. Till very recently no graves had 



