On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 311 



Fig. 29. 



(Alnwick MSS. Memoir, p. 56, note). This and the two stones 

 with Roman hewing recently discovered near the foundation of 

 Alwinton Church, are, excepting the roads, two of the few real 

 instances of Eoman occupation that have been brought to light 

 in the tract of country we have traversed. Eecent excavations 

 by members of the Club, at the Lantern camp, showed British 

 residence, in the disclosure of the half of a smoothened reddish 

 syenitic porphyry quern, formed of 

 stone similar to that found in the 

 upper part of the Breamish, as pre- 

 viously noticed under the title of 

 Ingram. The natives had inter- 

 changed their handiwork of this 

 character ; the mill stones from the 

 sand-stone hills finding acceptance 

 among the recesses of the Cheviots, 

 and vice versa. Perhaps the diversity 

 of the stones was adapted to different 

 sorts of grain, or finer or coarser 

 qualities of meal that were wished 

 to be produced. _ 



Broomwood Camp. 

 In March 1885, Mr E.G. 



Bolam called my attention to 



the finding of a small bronze 



celt, on the estate of Broom- 

 hill, of which he had been 



informed by a letter from Mr 



Edward J. Wilson, South 



Charlton. It was in the pos- 

 session of Luke Thorburn, 



the forester at Broomhill. 



from whom Mr Henry P. 



Taylor procured a loan of it 



for a sketch, see Pigs. 29 and 



30 . Mr Taylor has drawn it 



full size, and has given a 



drawing also of the mouth 



of the socket for the handle, 



which would be of a piece 



of crooked wood, or section 



of deer's antler. 



