26 Report of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J." Haxdy. 



lying promontory. Here they examined the great collection of 

 Barrows on the neck of the hill, the funeral monuments of an 

 extinct race. The stone-built tombs had been carefully covered 

 with great blocks of stone for protection. Mr James Thomson 

 who had dug into a few of them, without any result, said that 

 several of them were paved underneath. Among these tombs 

 or seated on some of the slabs, the company for an interval en- 

 joyed the fresh mountain air and the prospect across to Eglingham 

 and its wood encircled grounds. It was the time of blossoming 

 Hawthorns, the intermingled white and green sprays being 

 visible in the distance. The corn-fields were reddish tinted and 

 ratlier bare-looking. Banna Moor beyond had not yet shown 

 symptoms of relenting, although its stiff hoary Carex tufts must 

 have been doing their best to look gay with " Moor Palms." 

 The moor behind Tarry to North Charlton is very barren. This 

 peculiar name Tarry is attached to a coal-pit where coal-tar was 

 manufactured The country in this the Shipley direction had at 

 one time supplied coal to the Whittingham district. Beanley 

 Moor at its northend ismarked with numerous narrow deep-cut old 

 roads, which were tracks of pack-horses, which transported bags 

 of coal across the country. When one road was worn out, an- 

 other was selected. The " old coal road " went by Beanley and 

 past Hedgeley. 



The Eingses Camp, which had been selected as the scene of 

 the day's festivities, is minutely described in the Appendix. It 

 is situated on a hillock, surrounded by high rampiers with deep 

 ditches. The ditches still carry the Hawthorn and Mountain 

 Ash bushes noticed by Mr Tate in 1854, and some of them were 

 in blossom. Symptomatic of the dryness of the soil was a 

 Juniper bush, another having been visible on the sandy outskirts 

 of the moor elsewhere ; as also was the appearance of the 

 Wood-sage and the Fox-glove. There is a deep pit in the Camp 

 area, as well as another to the east : they may have been draw- 

 wells. An Adder was killed on one of the slopes. Vipers 

 frequent all these sandstone heights. Above the camp on the 

 rising escarpment there was a picturesque grey crag buttressing 

 the brown heathery moory space behind, whose face was trimmed 

 with Mountain Ashes, Birches, a few Scots-fir saplings, and tufts 

 of evergreen fern. Another similar abrupt crag, likewise gar- 

 nished with trees and ferns, and very fine Vaccinium Vitis-Idaa, 

 ie in a sort of treacherous position alongside the track as we 



