24 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



As yet there is no new spring vegetatioa on the excavated 

 camp area. A large oyster shell was picked up from the soil, 

 that had been much perforated by parasitic marine worms. It 

 had probably been brought there by former dwellers, along with 

 fresh examples of the mollusc attached to it, and not intention- 

 ally. The flowering Hawthorn, which had been so marked a 

 feature this season, had decayed on the open exposure, but still 

 lingered in well protected hollows; and a few Primroses still 

 glinted out in a deep dell by a footpath conducting to the castle. 

 Equisetum sylvaticum was frequent in some spots about the 

 margins of the old villay;e. 



The birds remarked on the outskirts of the lake or pond 

 were the Whitethroat, the Willow Wren, the Chiff-chaff, 

 and the Garden Warbler. 



It was reported that a large Eagle had visited the district. A 

 Badger had recently been captured, supposed to have wandered 

 from Sir William Armstrong's grounds at Cragside. 



Two British graves had been turned out in tirring the quarry 

 of yellow sandstone near the shepherd's house. In one was a 

 cranium of small dimensions ; in the other a well preserved 

 Urn. The very rude cists of rough yellow slabs have been 

 re-erected in an out-of-the-way tree-enveloped situation at the 

 south side of the walk near the pond. This yellow soft stone is 

 not used in facing, that of a white firm texture being obtained 

 from Greenhill quarry, which lies two or three miles to the 

 westwards of Callaly, and not here as in former notice. Major 

 Browne has presented the Club with a photo of this Urn, for 

 engraving, and also another of a large Anglo-Saxon Urn, said 

 to have been got at Ho wick, both preserved in the Museum 

 here. The Major has also presented the Plans of the Camp on 

 the hill, which was excavated in preparation for the Club's first 

 visit two years ago. These will appear in due time in the 

 Proceedings. 



At this meeting the following were proposed for membership : 

 Mr Eichard Allan, Greenlaw ; Mr James Marr, 6 Ash Place, 

 Sunderland ; and Dr Oliver, jun., of Lochside, Yetholm. 



Mr Loney has kindly written me on the condition of the 

 timber trees and the gardens visited for the remainder of this 

 season, commencing with Callaly Castle, from whose communi- 

 cations I purpose to make extracts for the Club's informa- 

 tion. 



