348 Report of Meetings for 1886. By J. Harcly. 



In the last number of the Club's " Proceedings " I recorded a 

 silver brooch found in digging stones for a sheep-fold at Hazelton 

 Big, near Scrainwood, parish of Alnharn. I have now obtained 

 a loan of the article, which is both rare and valuable ; and it 

 will be figured for the Club. The handsome brooch was ex- 

 hibited. Small Urn. — In May 1886, in ploughing a field on 

 Oxwell Mains, in the Broxmouth Waird, near Chalkieford, 

 (Dunbar parish), the plough struck on a sandstone cover of a 

 cist three feet long, with slabs disposed on the sides. The cist 

 was full of sand, and had a small urn in the west corner, of 

 which I obtained the bottom and two fragments. It is formed 

 of a red clay, blackened in the inside, very artistically crossed 

 with three deeply-impressed entire lines and broader zig-zag or 

 chevron impressions alternately. The lines, and, perhaps also 

 the chevrons, have been made with an implement or print. It 

 has a flat bottom, and is very like a little flower pot. It belongs 

 to the food vessel type. It is similar to the example we have 

 figured from Luffness Links, but is more artistic. Bronze 

 Caldron. — A small brouze caldron, made of very thin bronze 

 plate, without the top portion, was found in draining at Ewartly 

 Shank, or Alnham Moor. The Shank burn is a tributary of the 

 Breamish. Mr Scott, Alnham and Hipsburn, has kindly allowed 

 the vessel to be sketched, as well as a flint hammer, found on 

 one of his low-country farms. This caldron has been engraved 

 among the urns and implements found on Cheviot in the 

 "Proceedings." 



Mr James Wood, Galashiels, handed round a small stone 

 hammer, apparently used for chipping flints, and several flakes, 

 arrow-heads, and scrapers of a horny-coloured flint from 

 Wady Haifa, on the Nile. These he had obtained from a friend. 

 They are another proof of the universality, at one period or 

 other, of a stone age in all quarters of the world. The stone 

 and flint age of Nubia is again repeated at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, in Central India, in the Indian graves of Peru and North 

 America, as well as in our own fields. 



A paper by the Rev. W. Featherstonhaugh, Edmundbyers, 

 on the late Rev. J. F. Bigge was read. It has been printed in 

 the Proceedings. 



Mr Thomas Tomlinson, Alnwick Castle, and Mr James Dodds, 

 schoolmaster, Mertoun, were proposed for membership. 



