Silver Brooch found at Hazelton Rig. By J, Hardy. 501 



" A storm after this was expected, some prodigies seeming to 1'ortell it : 

 a little after his instalment, a magazine of powder blowing up many houses 

 and persons about the [Parliament] house : in Fogo-muir and Dunse-law 

 in December, an army of pikemen appearing to many ; and some days 

 after, some thousands of cannon, in a formal shape, for many days being 

 seen by many, both English and Scots, made of snow without the hand of 

 man. For all this, nothing is seen but a deep peace." (Eaillie's Letters, 

 etc., ii., p. 422). 



Countrymen armed with pikes and halberts, fought at the 

 battle of Bothwell Bridge, 22nd June 1679, when the Coven- 

 anters were defeated. (lire of Shargarton's Narrative, appended 

 to Dr. McCrie's Memoirs of Veitch, etc., pp. 458, 47(5 \ 



In 1689, bayonets, which had before this in Eugland and 

 France (1672-75), superseded the pike, were attached by two rings 

 to muskets, by Mackay in Scotland. (Boutell's Arms and Armour, 

 p. 288). 



On a Silver Brooch found at Hazelton Rig near Alnham, 

 Northumberland. By James Hardy. 



In 1881, while digging for stones for the erection of a new 

 sheep enclosure at Hazelton Rig, which lies in the mountainous 

 district surrounding the secluded church and vicarage of Alnham, 

 a very handsome Silver Brooch was found, of which I heard 

 when visiting Kidland in June 1883. Quite unexpectedly, when 

 calling upon the Rev. M. Lazenby at Alnham Vicarage, on May 

 26th, 1 886, on mentioning the circumstance, Mr Lazenby produced 

 the precious article which had come into his possession, and 

 kindly lent it to be engraved. 



It consists of a smooth silver ring, to which are soldered six 

 thin silver plates or plaques ; and six silver beads or knobs are 

 as it were strung at regular intervals between these plaques. 

 Two of the plaques are broken. The plaques — rosettes they may 

 be called — represent concave quadrifoils intersected by crosses 

 with a single raised central spot. Those at the top and bottom 

 are largest. The upper surface is overlaid with gold-foil, which 

 appears to have been beaten into the concavities. The solid 

 knobs are fretted on the upper sides with from four to six lines 

 of raised pellets, but their undersides are polished, uniform with 

 the ring. The tongue plays freely in a notch on the upper side. 



