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beautifully ornamented bracelet of copper from High Torrs. 
The trappers inform me that the part most prolific in ‘“‘ bronze” is 
that on either side of the march fence between Clachshiant and 
High Torrs. Rings have been got; one said to be inscribed with 
runes has gone out of the country, but it is to be hoped it will find 
its way back ; penanular rings or brooches, low-shaped fibulee, fish 
hooks, buckles, buttons (I have one from new ground with the 
name of a London firm on it), pendants, keys, needles, mountings, 
paper fasteners, etc. 
Melting pots, probably mostly used for bronze and lead, are 
rarely got. I have seen in Ayrshire particles of gold sticking to a 
fragment of a crucible. Archzologically the word “bronze” is 
used as a sort of generic term: many of the articles may be of 
brass, copper, or “mixed metal.” Iron articles are sometimes 
found coated with “bronze”; and bronze articles inlaid with 
* nielo” and silver have been found. 
Scraps of lead are frequent, especially on the new ground, 
and occasionally whorls, bullets, etc., of it are got. 
On a flat part of the Torrs, not far from Horse Hill, there was 
blown bare some fourteen years ago, a part where a burial mound 
had been raised over an interment. I saw it at the time when it 
was still fresh and the place dry and level, but it is now occupied 
by a water hole. This mound had been covered to a certain 
extent by water-worn stones, and when it was blown away the 
stones were left as a ring on the sand. This ring was ten paces 
in diameter and six feet broad, but has since been much destroyed 
by people searching for articles in it; a large proportion of the 
stones were white quartz. In the centre of it, when I saw it first, 
there was a lot of calcined bones, and the trapper took two urns 
from it which are now in the museum at Edinburgh. The urns, 
strange to say, were not got in the centre of the ring, but in the 
part now covered by the stones, so that this interment had pro- 
bably taken place in a ring mound. 
Five hundred yards south of Mid Torrs steading there is a lot 
of light coloured stones which probably had been connected 
with an interment; many broken stones are lying round about- 
them. ’ 
In an urn from Mid Torrs there was got a bronze dagger, a 
polisher, and four white quartz pebbles. I have seen an Ayrshire 
