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shooting in a field on a farm called Tod-steads, between Weldon 

 Bridge and Brenckburn. He has also a well-formed and perfect 

 fiint-scraper obtained from the site of a removed barrow on Healy 

 farm. There are also a large quantity of small cairns on the 

 Rimside Hills, and some large ones, some of which have never 

 been opened—these are on Dr Fenwick's Framlington Estate. 

 Rimside hill has round its base several heaps of loose stony earth, 

 which I take to be relics of glacial times in the form of Moraines, 

 on one of which a lot of Hint-chips were obtained." He adds in 

 a postscript : " I have found another rock with cups on it, near 

 the mouth of Blackburn on the Pauperhaugh farm." This also 

 intimates a previous example. On the 25th July 1834, as some 

 workmen were forming a new road near the Priory, they dis- 

 covered a small brass pot containing several rose nobles of 

 Edward III., and some half and quarter nobles of the same reign, 

 all in an excellent state of preservation.* Again in February 

 1848, "twelve gold nobles of Edward III., enclosed in a bronze 

 urn, were found about this time at Brinkburn Priory, near 

 Morpeth. "f Mr Cadogan, in reference toone or other of these finds, 

 apparently the latter, if they were distinct, says ; " the bronze 

 vessel containing the gold nobles is undoubtedly Edwardian, 

 and was found under the hearth stone of a burned wooden build- 

 ing covered by an inverted stone trough such as is sometimes 

 used for feeding pigs." 



Inquiries having been made about the natural woods on the 

 estate, and the rare wild plants, Mr C. wrote: " I believe there 

 are three natural oak woods on the estate, one, a large one which 

 you could not see," from the position where we were. " The 

 Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), grew naturally on a waterfall in 

 the Hope Wood, but the tourists have destroyed it root and 

 branch. I cannot find the Orobanche (0. major), though I saw it 

 in 1846, I think ; and the late Rev. John F. Bigge asked me if I 

 had noticed it, as he had once seen it — he thinks it was in 1834. 

 He took me to the place, and it was where I had seen it in I 

 think 1846. It was not to be seen in 1865, the year Mr Bigge 

 was staying with me— nor did I see it in 1868, — a dry year and 

 hot like this [when it could not be found after a search]. I am 

 told there is a rare moss or some dwarf grass {Lycopodium ?) 

 growing on the moor just behind a farm stead called the Hope, 

 but I know nothing of these small plants — though I have re- 



* Latimer's Local Records, p. 27. flbid. p. 242. 



