British Urns found at Hoprig. By Jas. Hardy. 131 



passable. Tn fact it was not the great engineer Telford, but his 

 predecessors, who really opened up the country. 



The old road from Berwickshire to Glasgow, by which corn 

 was largely sent in the last century, is still remembered ; the 

 old pack-horse road, like a large ditch, going down to the 

 crossing of the Caddon near Whitebank, was lately pointed out 

 by a man in the neighbourhood. The road came through 

 Wedale by Langshaw, over Orosslee moor, went over the pass 

 at Laidlawstiel, and came down on the Tweed between that and 

 Holylee — it is still to be seen there. The corn seems to have 

 been for the supply of the rapidly growing town ; it is im- 

 possible it can have been for export, as I have heard supposed . 

 A trace of this old high road remained in there being a black- 

 smith at Laidlawstiel till comparatively recently. 



The precipitous slate-rocks on the Tweed at Thornielee made 

 any regular track along the river on that side impossible. 



On British Urns found at Hopriy near Cockburnspath, 

 Berwickshire. By James Hardy. Plates I., II., III., IV., 

 V., VI. 



One of the most valuable discoveries of British Urns in 

 Berwickshire was that made in March and April, 1887, at Hop- 

 rig near Cockburnspath. Hoprig is an extensive farm that lies 

 next to East Lothian, and is bounded on the N. and N.W. by 

 the Oldhamstocks or Dean Burn, and by the boundary or Berwick 

 Burn. It is on the estate of Mr Hunter of Thurston, and is 

 tenanted by Mr Frederick F. Smith. Short graves have at 

 various periods been ploughed up on the gravelly knolls preva- 

 lent on Clifton hill there, which intervenes between the main 

 road to Cockburnspath and the upper part of Dunglass dean. 

 These were constructed of red sandstone slabs that had been 

 conveyed from the coast near Cockburnspath Cove. After the 

 top-slab had been removed little regard was paid to them ; as 

 only a few fragments of bones had survived the lapse of ages. 

 The bodies had been placed in bent or doubled up positions. 



The situation of the newly indicated cemetery is in a different 

 direction, and rather to the S. by W. of the farm place. Till 

 within recent leases this ground was an untilled moor, with a 



