MILFIELD, a township in the parish of KIRKNEWTON,
western division of GLENDALE ward, county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, 5 miles (N. W.) from Wooler,
containing 259 inhabitants. This was the residence of
the Saxon kings of Bernicia, after the death of Edwin.
South of the village is a fine plain, the scene of a battle
fought, before that of Flodden, between the English
and the Scots, in which the former were defeated. Under
an immense heap of stones, supposed by some to
have been raised by the Britons, a Roman urn, containing
ashes and burnt bones, was discovered in 1823.