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inches, 10 inches, and 7^ inches respectively. The inside 

 surface of these rings was smooth and plain, but they 

 rounded out to a point on the outside, one being polished 

 and of a brown colour. A few pieces of coarse pottery and 

 some rough pieces of flint were also found ; and in one of 

 the circles near the top of the Western summit was unearthed 

 the upper stone of a quern, composed of a hard Crystalline 

 Syenite, which Mr Tate could not identify as belonging to 

 the district. Excavations made at the circular enclosure on 

 the Eastern summit showed the enclosing ditch to have been 

 cut into the rock, and to have been originally 5 feet deep, 5 

 feet wide at the top, and 2 feet wide at the bottom. This 

 ditch is not carried all the way round, a space of 9 feet 

 being left for an entrance. This, with the appearance of the 

 rock surface inside, has given rise to statements about a 

 paved causeway. In the centre of this circle and in the 

 raised summit there was an oval, 13 feet by 10 feet, sunk 

 15 inches into the rock, which formed the rough floor. This 

 oval was full of small stones, and on the floor lay some 

 charred wood, suggestive of its being the site of the beacon. 

 Several excavations were made in the mounds and enclosures 

 on Worm Law, Swint Law, and White Law, but with rather 

 meagre results. I am afraid some of these had been 

 previously robbed. A very suggestive find was that of Iron 

 Slag in the barrow opened on Worm Law. Mr Tate states 

 that Iron Slag was also found on Harehope Moor. In one 

 of the hut-circles opened on Swint Law was found a 

 fragment of a glass ring of pale green, overlaid with bright 

 blue, with wavy lines of white enamel very artistically 

 worked in. It was only a short fragment, but the original 

 diameter had been 8 inches. In form, however, it resembled 

 the rings of oak already referred to. Mr Tate's designation 

 of these rings as armlets seems hardly to describe the 

 probable use of such large articles, as their diameter would 

 allow of their going over most heads and resting on the 

 shoulders. The description of the glass ring suggests Eoman 

 work, and possibly these rings may have belonged to a post- 

 Roman period. The quern found on Yeavering Bell may 

 probably be assigned to the same era. I have made no 

 reference to Pruidical remains on Yeavering, accounts of 



