48 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1909 



valuable parchments. It is 33 feet in height, and its walls ai^e 

 4 feet 5 inches in width. A battlemented roof with four 

 projecting turrets completed an imposing structure. 



At 4-30 the members dined in the Angel Hotel, said to 



represent the inn where the Commissioners of 

 Club Henry YIII. resided while engaged in the sup- 



Dinner, pression of Hexham priory. On the motion of the 



President, a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr 

 John Balden, Bywell, Mr H. H. E. Craster, and Canon Lonsdale, 

 for their helpfulness during the day's proceedings. A fine 

 example of a Celt, picked up near Coupland Castle, was exhibited 

 by Rev. Matthew Culley. The Secretary gave notice of the 

 following motion : — " That in view of the valuable work being 

 carried out on the site of the Roman station at Corstopitum, 

 under the auspices of the Corbridge Excavation Fund, and in 

 acknowledgment of the pleasure and instruction derived from 



this day's examination of the remains, the Club 

 Nomina = contribute the sum of £5 in aid of the Fund." 



tions. Nominations in favour of the following were duly 



intimated : — Rev. John MacLaren, Ayton ; Rev. 

 Morris Piddocke, Kirknewton ; and Mr William McNay, 

 Coldstream. 



For members living North of the Tweed, it was necessary 

 to pass the previous night in the neighbourhood. A convenient 

 resting-place was found at Hexham, where the President, 

 Seci'etary and a few others took up their quarters, occupying 

 their spare time in examining the town and its lately restored 

 Abbey, or in surveying the upland haugh through 

 Devil's which flows Devil's Water. Driving Eastward 



Water. by the Slaley and Blanchland road as far as 



Linnels' Bridge, erected as certified by an in- 

 scribed stone on the parapet in 1530, a small botanical section 

 traversed the country lying between Dipton Wood and Dilston 

 Castle. Much of the woodland is of recent planting, but on 

 the riverside, especially in the neighbourhood of Swallowship, 



