178 Report of Meetings for 1888. By J. Hardy. 



family. A. drawing of this stone has been taken. Rather 

 curiously it was found in a Held at Shawdon Woodhouse. Here 

 also were three querns, one of them got when draining a field 

 near the Gardener's Lodge ; another in a British camp on 

 Titlington Mount ; and the other, which is perfect, and which 

 Mr Thomson exhibited in operation, had been brought from the 

 Scottish Highlands. 



The Hall was opened to the company, and the objects of 

 antiquity, family and other paintings, library, and some rich old 

 furniture, were examined and much appreciated. The contents 

 of the Library, were principally works on Theology, Natural 

 History, Law and History. Here were also preserved a number 

 of curiosities collected from different parts of the estate, during 

 the present Mr Pawson's time. 1. Fragments of Red Deer 

 antlers, of medium size, found 5 feet from the surface in a drain 

 behind Shawdon House. 2. An antler of Red Deer, with 5 

 tines, found 5 feet deep in a wet boggy drain, below Titlington 

 House. 3. A three-legged brass Flagon, with a handle, and 

 having its spout unadorned, found about 1862, in draining a 

 bog at Hoppen, not far from the lime-kiln. A high mound of 

 black soil full of bones was come on, the remains of a paved 

 road, and the brass vessel. It is 9 inches high ; the diameter at 

 top, 3 inches. 4. The small caldron of copper plate found in 

 1828, on the under flat part of Mr Pawson's ground, above 

 Bolton Church. It is figured in the Hist, of the Club, Vol. xi., 

 fig. 31, p. 313. Drawings by Mr H. P. Taylor have been made 

 of the tripod brass-flagon ; of a strong old chest once used for 

 keeping jewels and valuables ; and of a peculiar apparatus for 

 toasting bacon for breakfast ; which may yet be available as 

 illustrations of domestic utensils and household requisites of a 

 previous age. 



Among the stuffed birds was a Jay. Jays once frequented the 

 woods at Titlington Hall, and also I was told by the late Mr 

 Carr-Ellison at Hedgeley, but were extirpated for their mischief 

 in destroying all kinds of nests. The White, the Horned, and 

 the Hooting Owls are here also, as well as at Hedgeley ; and the 

 Short-eared Owl at the latter place. An example of the Common 

 Buzzard is also preserved at Shawdon. In the autumn the 

 Ring-ousels and Missel Thrushes, preparatory for their migratory 

 flight, make a descent upon the mountain ashes, and denude 

 them of their rich coloured berries in a night. The garden is 



