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Glanton. 



In our progress we have again wheeled round to the line of 

 the Eastern Watling Street, and must now have recourse to the 

 statements of the Northumbrian historians. 



" As a mason was digging for stone near Deer Street, beside 

 Glanton Westfield, in the year 1716, he discovered an empty 

 stone chest, upwards of 3 feet in length, and 2 in breadth, with 

 a stone cover. Sometime afterwards three more chests of a simi- 

 lar form, with covers, were discovered at the same place. There 

 were two urns of some fine earth in each, with some charcoal 

 and human bones, on which were the marks of fire. Near these 

 were two other urns, one large and the other very small. 



They were of ordinary pottery, and on being exposed to the 

 air fell into pieces. An ancient urn was also found more recently 

 in ploughing a field near Glanton." (Mackenzie, vol. II. p. 25, 

 date of vol. 1825). " Mr Wallis says that a British Securis or 

 celt, of the old mixed brass, was found in making a fence, about 

 a quarter of a mile north from Glanton "Westfield." (Ibid, p. 25). 



When calling, on June 27, 1885, on our venerable member 

 Mr Collingwood, at Glanton Pyke, he mentioned that Deer 

 Street is a field near the Eoman Eoad. It was in it that in his 

 father's time an urn was found, which fell to pieces, and the 

 fragments were not preserved. 



"It is probable," says Mr MacLauchlan, "that there has been 

 a camp at Glanton ; there are apparently the remains of one to 

 the north of the village, and traditional evidence avers that they 

 extended to the south. Again, at the east end of the village, 

 close to the road on the south of it, are remains of an enclosure 

 somewhat quadrangular in shape, but we could make out 

 nothing satisfactory; probably it has been a British settlement." 

 (Memoir, p. 22.) 



AVe here for the present bid adieu to the subject, and to an 

 author to whom we have been much indebted. 



