50 Report of Meetings for 1887. By J. Hardy. 



Hodgson, the historian of Northumberland, visited Campville in 

 1810, and took drawings of the altars and copied the inscriptions. 

 There were about a dozen, besides fragments. See Hodgson's 

 Northumberland, Part II. vol. n.; notes pp. 141-145. The 

 collection was afterwards acquired by the Duke of Northumber- 

 land and transferred to Alnwick Castle. There are still recollec- 

 tions at Holystone and neighbourhood of the removal. Mr John 

 Nicholson writes : " Old Thomas Rutherford, the shoemaker of 

 Holystone, tells me that he helped the Duke's men to put the 

 stones into the carts when they removed them from Campville. 

 The Duke sent two carts to Campville for the stones, but these 

 could not take them all at one turn, but had to go back a second 

 time, and old Tom was there on both occasions, and helped in with 

 the stones. One of the slabs was lying in the dene against the 

 fence; the others were standing at the end of Mr Forster's house." 

 Apparently they had become neglected ; the General's successors 

 having felt no interest in them. The Roman road (Middle 

 Watling Street) passes close beside the camp. A notice of it 

 from Mr MacLauchlan's Memoir appeared in Club's Hist. vol. 

 xi. p. 298. 



Campville now belongs to Major Thompson, who proposes 

 occasionally to reside there, and while there intends to promote 

 the objects of the Club in that neighbourhood. He has favoured 

 me with a plan and measurements of the " Hare Cairn," a 

 collection of stones on Lanternside, near Campville. 



Mr Nicholson pointed out across the Low Farnham ground on 

 the opposite side of the Coquet, but lower down, two or three 

 tumuli that still remain unopened beyond the march wall in a 

 high lying field on Hepple. He mentioned also that recently a 

 coin of Domitian had been obtained somewhere near Hepple by 

 Mr Cecil Hedley. 



Most of the party returned by the road nearest the Coquet, 

 where the river is seen winding in all directions in a wide low 

 valley ; often lawless, and strewing the grassy flats with gravel 

 and sand, or during floods filling the swampy pools with new 

 supplies of water to the comfort of the snipes and other aquatic 

 or semi-aquatic birds that frequent them. Here by a little oak 

 wood fringed with sallows on the west side of the river, below 

 Sharperton bridge, I observed a small party of migrant Whin- 

 chats that had just arrived on May 28th, 1886 — late coiners, but 

 early enough for the moor-edges, where the brackens are often 

 late in furnishing cover. 



