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Dagger-knife. — The dagger-knife (51) is of greyish flint, 6| 

 inches in length by 2i inches in greatest breadth, and | inch in 

 greatest thickness. On either side near the middle of its length 

 are two small notches, probably to allow of its being securely 

 fastened to a handle. It was found in a cairn near Glenlochar, 

 Portrail Burn, Crawford Moor, about 1817. Dagger-knives of 

 this form are of great rarity in Scotland, owing to the scarcity of 

 flints of .sufficient size to produce them. The National Museum 

 only possesses one found in Mid-Lothian, and there is another 

 in the Museum at Forres, Elginshire. A fourth, found in Banff"- 

 shire, is in the possession of Cannon Greenwell. 



From the sandhills at Glenluce and Stoneykirk the Museum 

 possesses a small collection of flint implements partly collected by 

 the late Dr Grierson himself. The collection includes an arrow- 

 head with barbs and stem, and two of lozenge form (91), two 

 single-edged saws (90) If inch and 2 inches in length, a knife of 

 flint (84) 1| inch in length, an oval-pointed implement (85), and 

 a number of scrapers and chips (89-92). 



Beads, Rings, tfcc. 



Of beads of glass, amber, and vitreous paste the Museum also 

 possesses a few specimens. One (106) is a ribbed melon-shaped 

 bead of greenish vitreous paste, found at Baitford, Penpont, by 

 Dr Grierson. 105 is another bead of the same form, but of bluish 

 colour, and was found at Castle Newe, Aberdeenshire. These 

 beads are generally considered to be of Roman manufacture, and 

 they are at all events found co-extensive with Roman antiquities. 

 One (103) is a bead of amber found in Sanquhar Castle. Another 

 (108) is a good specimen of a very rare and eai'ly form of a bead 

 which is more common in the north of Scotland than elsewhere. 

 This specimen was found at Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Another 

 bead (107) is of brownish yellow coloured glass, and was found 

 at Blackwood, Keir. 



Of rings there are two specimens, one of jet If inch in 

 diameter, found in Lochar Moss in 1840, the other (100) of fine 

 mottled jasper 1| inches in diameter, finely polished, found at 

 Holestane, Durisdeor.* 



* An almost identical ring of mottled jasper found in the river Lyon, near 

 Fortingall, and a larger ring of the same material found near Inverness, are 

 in the National Museum. 



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