230 Report of the Meetings for 1895. 



Bunkle and Preston Parishes, when Mr George Trotter and 

 Mr Alexander Nicholson were ministers, dating from 6th 

 August 1()65 to 6th July 1690, when the original was carried 

 off into Northumberland. This is an interesting ecclesiastical 

 document. Annexed to it is a portion of the marriage and 

 baptismal register, from 1685 to 1690, the first part of it 

 being torn out. This is now nearly printed for the Club, 

 as the first of a series of separate papers relating to the 

 district. 



The Rev. Mr Bisset, Houndwood, showed a Bronze Lance 

 or Javelin-head, found when the railway was making opposite 

 Brockholes. It is a small example and has lost the point, 

 and is very simple, without ornament, and has no openings 

 in the blade. The longish socket swells gradually into the 

 leaf-shaped blade ; the midrib is convex and prominent ; the 

 spaces between it and the sides very limited. It is quite 

 smooth externally. Length 5f inches ; about 1^ or If inches 

 broken off the apex ; breadth of blade l-/,r inches ; diameter 

 of socket f inch; 2 rivet holes, one on each side, at 1^ 

 inches ; blade begins to swell at about 3 inches. 



Mr Wood showed a small iron ball of the size of a large 

 marble, found in a grave on the site of the Priory — a 

 grapeshot. Mr Craw showed some charters of Coldingham 

 properties ; one of them especially valuable for the impression 

 of the fine seal attached, of which there is no example 

 preserved at Durham. 



Ornithological notes were given in by Dr Stuart and Mr 

 George Bolam. Dr Stuart showed a very fine assortment of 

 hybrid Violas and herbaceous plants, and Mr Adam Anderson, 

 Oumledge Mills, showed some specimens of plants which he 

 found in fiower on Coldingham Moor, on his way to the 

 meeting, including Orchis incarnata, Ilabenaria bifolia, Gymna- 

 denia cunopsea, Trientalis europcea, Vaccinium oxycoccus. 



The company separated at a little after 5 o'clock, in good 

 time for the evening trains. 



