38 Meport of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J. Hardy. 



the printed account. " There are three figures on this stone — all typical 

 forms, and furnishing an example of the groove passing through the entire 

 circumference of a series of concentric circles. This stone too illustrates 

 the change which long exposure to weather has wrouglit in the appearance 

 of the sculpturing ; where the figures had been covered over with turf they 

 show the rude tool marks and jagged edge of the incisions, but where they 

 have been long exposed to the weather the figures are smoothed, rounded, 

 and more artistic looking — this nature, not art, has accomplished. This 

 stone has been taken from its original position, and is now in Alnwick 

 Castle." 



Mr Tate further adtls : "A loose stone was found when draining a field 

 west of Beanley. It is but a fragment, and has one typical figure — four in- 

 complete concentric circles around a cup ; this may have been connected 

 with an interment." (see Hist. B.N.C., vol. v., Plate ii., fig. 3.) 



" Higher up the escarpment of the Egiingham Hills than the fort, there 

 is a j)latform of sandstone rock bi-eaking out from the hill, and on the 

 sualp of the rock I detected in several places traces of typical inscriptions." 

 (I.e., p. 160.) 



These camps and circular foundations (Xos. 2, 3, -i, and 5) are north- 

 ward of the higher escarpment of the Beanley and Egiingham sandstone ; 

 but on this higher ridge are : — 



6. — A great number of Barrows scattered in groujts over the hill, and also 

 on the slope of the hill where it declines northward. Some of them are 

 of considerable size. Standing upon one 30 feet in diameter anil about 3 

 feet in height, I counted nearly 30 othei's scattered around ; at least 20 

 more are on the northern face of the hill ; so that within an area of less 

 than half-a-mile square there are not less than 50 Celtic Barrows. 



[Mr Tate was not aware of a series of small Camj)s and British hamlets 

 accompanied with cairns and tombs, at the base of Titlington Mount hill, 

 and extending by the moor edge ou the north side of the vale of Allery 

 Burn to near the Kemmer Lough hill. These and some other scattered 

 camps in that and other directions require to be measured and described 

 before being annexed to his careful record.] 



[Since compiling these extracts, I have examined Mr MacLaachlan's 

 Sheet III. of his Survey of Watling Street. The only camps given are the 

 triple-ringed forts on Beanley Hill and the Einglets. The site of the cist 

 in this wood not far above the woodman's cottage is indicated. Still 

 nearer to this cottage and almost in line with it, but on the opposite side 

 of the Glanton and Egiingham road, is the site where the stone with the 

 incised symbols was found in 1839, and now in Alnwick Castle museum. 

 It is figured as already mentioned in Hist. B. N. C, vol. v., Plate ii., fig. 3 

 On the moor above the Ringlets, the crags ai-e called the Millstone Heugh. 

 Still more to the south is the Corbie Crag, in whose neighbourhood are 

 "Ancient Dwellings."] 



Mr John Brown has kindly communicated Notes of two Urns from 

 Beanley, preserved in the Museum in Alnwick Castle, from the Catalogue, 

 and with references to the Plates of these British Urns, a private work, 



