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OS **of a very primitive fasliion, small in the bowl, and tliick 

 in the shank, and have been found in great numbers^ in 

 Ireland." From the fact, **he says," of many of thorn having 

 been found in caves and subterranean passages, ignorantly 

 supposed to be the work of our Scandinavian visitors in former 

 times, they have improperly been denominated '* Danish 

 pipes." Another interesting notice of their occurrence, I 

 quote from. ** Wilson's Archaeology of Scotland." 



**A class of relics found in considerable numbers at North 

 Bewick, as well as in various other districts, are small tobacco 

 pipes, popularly known in Scotland by the names of CeUie or 



^IJin pipes To what period these curious relics belong, 



I am at a loss to determine. The popular names attached to 

 them manifestly point to an era long prior to that of Sir 

 Walter Baleigh and the Maiden Queen, and the objects with 

 which they have been discovered, would also seem occasionally 

 to lead to similar conclusions, in which case we shall be forced 

 to assume that the American weed was only introduced as a 



superior substitute for older narcotics Mr. C. K. Sharpe 



informs me that even in his younger days it was common for 

 the old wives of Annandale to smoke a dried white moss 

 gathered on the neighbouring moors, which they declared to 

 be much siveeter than tobacco, and to have been in use before 

 the American weed was heard of." 



The following examples of the circumstances under which 

 these Elfin pipes have been found, taken from the Scottish 

 statistical accounts are analogous to those in Purbeck. ''Many 

 of the ancient British encampments appear in the parish of 

 Kirkmichael, Dnmfrieshire. Upon some of these being 

 opened ashes have been found, likewise several broken querns 

 or hand-mills, and in one of them there was dug out a sword 

 having a basket-hilt." There was also seen a number of pipes 

 of burnt clay with heads somewhat smaller than that of the 



tobacco pipe now in use." "An example is also noted of 



the discovery of a tobacco pipe in sinking a pit for ooal at 



