166 THE FLODDEN MEMORIAL 



to number more than 1,000, concentrated upon Piper's Hill, 

 near the centre of the battle-field, where the Memorial Cross 

 is placed. A roomy enclosure had been fenced off on the 

 North side of the Cross, and on a platform under it sat 

 Sir George Douglas, Bart., Chairman (beneath a floating Union 

 Jack), Sir Francis Blake, Bart., Lord Joicey, Dr Thomas 

 Hodgkin, John C. Collingwood, Esq., Commander Norman, 

 R.N., and A. L. Miller, Esq., J. P. The proceedings were 

 opened by Commander Norman, Joint Secretary, who read a 

 report of the movement since its inception. Emphasizing the 

 joint character of the scheme, he remarked that since both 

 nations had long ago joined hands never again to separate, 

 both might consistently be invited to unite in support of a 

 memorial designed to honour Englishmen and Scotsmen alike. 

 He at the same time described the Memorial, which stands 

 on a piece of ground generously presented by John Carnaby 

 Collingwood, Esq. (one of the Club members), as consisting 

 of a Celtic Monolith Cross of grey Aberdeen granite, 12 feet 

 6 inches high, and 3 feet 9 inches across the arms, raised 

 on a rustic base or cairn, 6 feet high, of rough-hewn granite 

 blocks upon a solid concrete foundation, the whole being 

 enclosed with a fence of massive granite posts connected by 

 galvanized iron bars. The inscription — besides which there 

 is no lettering of any soi't — is 



"Flodden 1513. 



To THE Brave of Both Nations. 



Erected 1910." 



in incised letters on a slab on the North side of the cairn. 

 Access to the Memorial is through a wicket-gate in the hedge 

 at the nearest point of the road, 99 yards distant, and by 

 no other way. The contractors for the work, which was 

 greatly admired, were Messrs Bower & Florence, Spittal Granite 

 Works, Abei'deen. In the course of his report Commander 

 Norman also reminded his audience that the country presents 

 a very difFei^ent aspect now to what it did in 1513. They must 

 obliterate in imagination all the trees, hedgerows and umbrageous 

 copseB which now combine to make up so fair a landscape, and 



