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bronze found in Lanarkshire is in the National Museum. Three 

 rough stone balls (40-42) in the Museum, from 2 inches to 3^ 

 inches in diameter, may have been used as boiling-stones or 

 hammer-stones. 



Miscellaneoics Stone Implements. — Of miscellaneous stone 

 implements one (54) is a portion of a whetstone found in a Moss 

 near Sanquhar on the site of a supposed lake-dwelling. Another 

 (39) is an elliptical-shaped pebble of quartz, 3| inches in length, 

 with the sides brought to an edge all round, and having an oblique 

 groove on one face and two on the other. The implement is an 

 Iron Age whetstone, and was found in Rashbrig Moss. These 

 implements are not common in Scotland, and I only know of 

 fifteen specimens, of which this is one. No. 47 is a polisher of 

 quartz, 4 inches in length by 2 inches in breadth, with the two 

 longest edges ground smooth. It is said to have been found in 

 removing a cairn near Cairnmill, in the parish of Penpont, about 

 the year 1834. Another (-53) is a portion of a m.ould of sand- 

 stone for casting metal objects resembling a wide-toothed «olnb, 

 and was found at Enter kinfoot, Durisdeer. One (112) is a 

 hammer-stone found on the site of a crannog in Craigenveoch 

 Loch, Wigtownshire. Four others (113-llC) are socket-stones of 

 gates, and of barley and meal mills. The larger sized socket-stones 

 have usually a single socket, and the smaller size often have 

 several small socket holes made by the revolution of the iron 

 spindle of the upper mill-stone of the old fashioned mill. Such 

 mills were in common use throughout Scotland until within the 

 present century, and, indeed, have been in use up to the present 

 day in Shetland. There are also in the Museum sixteen (162-177) 

 rudely worked implements of sandstone from Shetland. These 

 implements, which are all roughly formed, are found only in 

 Orkney and Shetland. 



Spindle-Whorls. 



Whorls of stone, made to be fitted on to the wooden spindle, 

 so as to increase and maintain the rotary motion given to it by 

 the twirling by the fingers in spinning from the distaff, are of all 

 periods from the first invention of the art of spinning in the later 

 Stone Age down to the present day. In Scotland no whorls have 

 been found with interments, but they are most commonly turned 

 up by the plough, and they have also been found in great 



