36 Report of Meetings for imo. By Dr J. Hardy. 



Camps. — On the high hill N. of the Titlington Mount House, there are 

 two camps at a short distance from each other. [This is the same series 

 described Nov. 8, 1854.] The form is complicated, and there seems to be 

 a vallum round both. The South camp is small, and has even a small 

 round entrenchment within it ; the Northern one is much larger, and has 

 two circular camps with a semicircular one at the south end. The 

 rampiers are formed of sandstone, and masses of sandstone in, situ are left 

 to form part of the defence. There may. be two or three acres included in 

 these camps. Another camp is southward near the House ; and on Beanley 

 Hill a little westward is another strongly entrenched, within which is a 

 Druidical Circle (see entry Oct. 1855) ; and on Eglingham Moors not far to 

 the northwest are several other camps and foundations of Celtic dwellings. 



Barroios. — On a lower hill overlooking on the south the swampy ground 

 adjoining the Kemmer, are two large cairns formed of sandstones. These 

 were opened some years ago and found to cover cists. Tlie southmost 

 cairn is fully 30 feet in diameter, and the little cists are still to be seen. 

 Three cists were beneath this cairn, each only 2^ or 3 feet in length, 2 feet 

 broad, and 2| feet deep, formed of sandstone slabs in the usual way ; but 

 there was no bottom stone. The direction of tlie cists is N. 10® E. to 10" 

 W. The body had probably been doubled up. The northern cairn is 15 

 feet from the other, and is smaller ; under this one cist was found. 



On the hill further soutli and west, are many Barrows scattered irreg- 

 ularly, in groups of a few together without any order. Within an area of 

 less than a scjuare mile we passed by about 50 of these. Most of them are 

 small hillocks formed of stone, rising two or three feet above the surface. 

 Some, however, are very large ; one we measured was 40 yards in cir- 

 cumference. Mr Carr tells me these Barrows are very numerous along the 

 hill westwards ; he says there are hundreds of them. This is the most 

 extensive burying ground of the Celts which is known in the North. Two 

 of the smaller Barrows were opened by Mr Carr, but nothing was below 

 e.xcept some "red stuff," as if burnt. Probably while the more dis- 

 tinguished chiefs were burnt entire in cists beneath high Tumuli, less 

 important bodies were burnt and their ashes placed under cairns. 



Ancient Smeltings. — On the slope of the hill southward of Kemmer 

 Lough, is a heap of Slag — the refuse of Iron Smelting. No tradition exists 

 as to the age of this heap. The shepherd says that an iron stone was 

 found when cutting a channel or drain to carry off a portion of the Lough. 



Geological. — On the Kemmer Hill is a fissure in the sandstone called the 

 Split Crag, from one foot to four feet wide— direction N. 10" E. to S. 10" VV. 



May 21, 1859. — Eglingham and Beanley. — [This entry is valuable, as it 

 enumerates the remains with which Mr Tate was acquainted on the Beanley 

 and Eglingham aspects of the hills.] On a very favourable day and time 

 of the year, 1 along with Tom [Mr Tate's younger son] and Kobert Busby 

 ranged over Beanley and Eglingham Moors, chiefly for the purpose of 

 e.xamining the rocks in and near to the camps for traces of Inscriptions. 

 We failed, however, in finding any, and considering the great numbers of 

 rocks examined in all the more likely places, I fear that none exist. The 



