MATFEN (WEST), a township in the parish of STAMFORDHAM, north-eastern division of TINDALE: ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 9 miles (N. E.) from Hexham, containing 307 inhabitants. On opening a tumulus, supposed to have been aDruidical mausoleum,, coffins of four stones set edgeways, with stone bottoms and covers, were found, containing human ashes: near, it was an upright stone pillar, called the Stob stone.