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prepared at the expense of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. These 

 are all that are known that have escaped destruction, although from the 

 previous notices there appear to have been others. It is a most foolish 

 policy to keep these relics in private houses, where the families are shift- 

 ing, as they are almost certain to be neglocted in the end ; and equally to 

 be condemned is the removal of them from their native district to dis- 

 tances so great that they are inaccessible. All honour then to the pro- 

 in-ietors of Alnwick Castle, who have provided a secure place of deposit 

 for the preservation of the remnants of ancient British art, within roach 

 of those who require to study them. 



Urns found at Beanlev. 



No. 9 in Cat. of Antiquities of Alnwick Castle : — " This Yase was found 

 in January 1824, in a cist on a rising ground in the Out-Field on Beanley 

 West Farm. The cist was surrounded by stones. A small piece of flint, 

 like an unfinished arrow-head, and a human tooth are said to have beeii 

 found in the urn. (Plate xrva., Fig. 2a, height 5 inches, width at top 5 

 inches.) It is ornamented with three series of parallel lines, four in the 

 uppermost and three in the others, with two series of dotted indentations 

 running round the vessel in double lines." Colour a warm grey.— J. B. 



[Shaped like a tea-cup, of the form supposed to have held the ashes of 

 an infant. — J.H.] 



No. 22 in Cat. of Antiquities of Alnwick Castle : — " This Urn was found 

 near Beanley Moor, to the north-west of Alnwick, and was presented to 

 the Duke of Northumberland by Bryan Burrell, Esq. of Broom Park. It 

 is of a light brown colour, and has the usual linear and angular maikings 

 made by a notched strip of bone." (Plate xti. left hand side of the page.) 

 Height 6| inches, width at top 5| inches. — J.B. 



I Of an elegant " drinking-cup "' shape. Jt j)r()bnbly came from the 

 Bolton portion of the Moor. -J.H.] 



A large circular camp on Titlington Hill not far from Boll on inul 

 Titlington House is unnoticed in Jlr MacLanchlan's Survey. 



Callaly Castle. 



[As in the previous Report, I shall avail myself of the aid of 

 our allies of the Press who are more accustomed than I am to 

 record what was next to a public meeting, and shall then till in 

 the picture with the more miuute observations that more peculi- 

 arly appertain to the functions of the Club. Oil the present 

 occasion we are indebted io the columns of tlie Aluivuk and 

 County Gazette.'] 



The second Meeting of the year was held on Wednesday, 

 June 25. Major A. H. Browne, the genial and kind-hearted 

 owner of Callaly Castle, invited the Club thither for the day, 



