312 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



Mr MacLauchlan has fortunately described the spot and its sur- 

 rounding adjuncts. " On the opposite side of the river Aln [to 

 the Lantern Camp], at the distance of about 2£ miles south-east, 

 is another camp, similar in form, but not quite so large or so per- 

 fectly preserved ; we do not find that it has hitherto been noticed. 

 It is on Broomwood Farm, on the road from Alnwick to Whit- 

 tingham, about 230 yards from the road, nearly opposite Branch 

 Farm, and 400 yards east of Broomwood Farm House. It is 

 planted and encircled by a dry wall. The diameter of the inner 

 oval, which is the only one left, is about 75 yards by 55. About 

 900 yards from it, in a N.E. direction, is a remai-kable knoll, in a 

 field on Broomhill Farm, called Melon Close ; it has the appear- 

 ance of having been increased artificially. The tenant thinks it 

 is altogether natural, and has found a good bed of sand 

 about 3 feet below the surface." (Memoir, p. 56). 



This solitary elevation is conspicuous from the road, and from 

 the distance looks like a common gravel knoll. 



The stone wall that encircles the small fir plantation sur- 

 rounding the camp, was once topped with turf ; and the celt 

 had been enclosed in one of the sods, and when it decayed 

 was left exposed on the top of the wall, where it was picked 

 up. It serves to show that the camp was of the bronze era,. 

 The celt is now in the possession of Major Burrell of Broompark, 

 the proprietor of the ground. 



Shawdon. 



There is preserved in Shawdon Hall, a small caldron of copper- 

 plate, sub-oval like a large dish, of 12 inches diameter and 6 

 inches deep. Of this Mr Tate hasanotice (1868.) "Mr Pawson 

 showed me a copper pan, which was found about 40 years ago 

 (1828) near to Bolton church. It is thin copper, and has been 

 mended ; rounded bottom ; 12 inches diameter at top, 7£ inches 

 high." I understand that it was got in a portion of Shawdon 

 estate, that runs down to The Guards. It may have belonged to 

 the Leper hospital once situated there. It has been figured by 

 Mr H. P. Taylor— see Fig. 31. 



Several urns have at different periods been disclosed on the 

 Shawdon estate, but at so distant a period, that it is not easy to 

 conjecture where the localities so indefinitely given lie. 



" In January 1761, as some workmen were digging in a 

 plantation at Shawdon, they found two Eoman urns [at that 



