10 Address of the President. 



burn there are several mounds having an artificial appear- 

 ance, which would probably repay examination, and at the 

 side of the road by which Cairn Holly is approached at the 

 corner of one of the fields there are eight or nine standing 

 slabs besides prostrate ones upon a rough mound which 

 appears a likely spot to dig around. The day being far 

 advanced, however, we were obliged to return to Ravens- 

 hall, where our omnibus waited. By the side of the road 

 from Kirkdale Bridge there was Sedum refiexum upon the 

 top of the walls. This may have escaped from a garden.* 



While the omnibus was getting ready the members 

 started to try to find a carved stone said to be near, upon 

 the lands of Kirkclaugh, and after a search among the planted 

 cliffs of the sea-shore we discovered what was sought for.-f* 



Just as the party was starting Mr M'Guffog, the tenant 

 of the farm of Kirkmuir, which adjoins Cairn Holly, came 

 up to us with some remains which had been turned up on 

 his farm. It was impossible to examine them properly upon 

 the spot, and Mr M'Guffog kindly entrusted them to my 

 care. Mr M'Diarmid undertook to make enquiries as to 

 the exact locality and circumstances of the find, and his 

 report is as follows : — 



" The articles were found in a turnip field about a quar- 

 ter of a mile distant from the old church-yard of Kirkdale 

 by the farm servant while harrowing the land. They were 

 wedged together as if they had been packed in and covered 

 with till, the whole being about the size of a man's head. 

 The teeth of the harrow broke off a bit of the ball, by 



* Babington gives S. reflexiim as Scotch with, a 1 . Hooker gives walls, 

 roofa of houses, Thatched builds, rare ; and gives a wall on Corstorjjhine Hill, 

 near Edinburgh. We found the thatched houses at Aber, in Wales, and those 

 in Antrim, Ireland, covered with it. [Same as S. glaucum, — Smith.] 



+ " This singularly rude stone at Kirkclaugh, in the parish of Anwoth, 

 atands on a cliff overhanging the sea, near the partly artificial eminence called 

 the " Moat of Kirkclaugh." It is of sandstone, very rudely sculptured. The 

 nature of the markings or lines, which are deeply cut in the surface of the 

 slab, are sulEciently indicated in the drawing. It will be observed that the 

 cross like figure on the east face is partly raised on the stone above the sur- 

 rounding surface. It may be doubted if the present be the original site of 

 the stone."- Sculptured Stones, CXXIII. p. 38. 



