38 Antiquities from the Stewartry. 



large sheet, and the sides of various smaller portions, all rivetted 

 tog-ether. Here and there it is patched. Across the mouth it 

 measures 26 in., the bulge being about 1 in. wider. It was 

 dredged up from Carlingwark Loch by Messrs S. Gordon and 

 J. T. Blackley in 1866. Most of the better preserved objects 

 found in it are well figured in the Proceedings, VII., p. 8. 



Besides the Caldron, we have at present on loan the little 

 Bronze Pot found in Barean Loch, the property of Mr Lowden. 

 It is described and figured in your Transactions for 1868. I 

 think no one has hitherto observed that on the bottom of this 

 vessel there are a few finely scored lines, perhaps the mark of its 

 owner. 



Keeping still to the order of the Catalogue, the next great 

 class of relics is reiDresented by the Urns. And here again one is 

 struck by the absence of any of the large cinerary urns so typical 

 of burials of the Bronze Age. The collection of cinerary urns is one 

 of the marked features of the National Museum, and it does seem 

 extraordinary, considering the very large number of cairns that 

 have been rifled and of open cists that have been noticed in the 

 Stewartry any time during the last 150 years, that not one 

 specimen of the typical large urn has found a resting place 

 among its fellows. One is inclined to hope that it is not through 

 the same evil fate, presently to be alluded to, having overtaken 

 them, but that mere inattention and forgetfulness have been the 

 cause. The first urn, then. I have to notice belongs to what for 

 convenience is called the Food-vessel Type, EE 32. This, like 

 some other objects just noticed, was presented by Mr Alex. 

 Copland in 1872, and is described in the original entry thus: — 

 " A Roman Cinereal Urn [everything a century ago was Roman, 

 of course!] of gravely brown earth, 6^ in. in diameter and h\ in. 

 in height, found in the parish of Urr, on the lands of Glenarm, in 

 a cavity large enough to hold two or three people, on removing a 

 quantity of stones in a quarry. There was in it a little black 

 liquor like tar. There were other vessels [this is the distressing 

 point] found along with it, which were broken by the carelessness 

 of the workmen." The phrase, "a cavity large enough to hold 

 two or three people," and the fact of "other vessels" being found, 

 seem to indicate that the place of interment here was a long cist, 

 such as are found, so far as I know, rather frequently only in the 



