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the zew ground I have collected what may have been the rivets 
of a shield. Of course, we must always remain in the dark, or 
nearly so, as to the articles which may have been imported, but 
when we know that these old people had at least eleven “ iron- 
works ” (and very likely several times that number), it is most likely 
that all the iron articles recovered are native to the place; and 
at the period when these works were in “ full swing” it may have 
been the “ black country” of the south of Scotland. 
A few tobacco pipes, elf pipes of the old small-headed type, 
with the boll removed at but a small angle from the line of the 
stem, have been got mostly on the new ground ; any of them I have 
seen are dirty grey in colour. No stone pipes—such as those got 
in America—have, so far as I know, been found on the Torrs or 
in Scotland. Before the introduction of tobacco, sphagnum was 
the “‘weed” used for smoking, and “‘dishalage” (Zusst/ago Farfara) 
is still smoked by people who have got a “sitten-doon caul.” 
I think I am within the mark when I say that at least three 
hundred coins have been got on the Torrs, but, so far as I can 
learn, none of them are Roman, the oldest being Anglo-Saxon 
Styca, and probably of the eighth or ninth century. A spot 
prolific in coins occurs on Clachshiant, and another on Laigh 
Torrs on the new ground at the huts. The last-named site, where 
some mud floors have been laid bare and are at present to be 
seen, has furnished a great variety of articles, especially fragments 
of pottery, some of very elegant designs and even hand-painted ; 
complete glass bottles of large size are said at one time to have 
been common, and “bronze” and iron articles abundant ; sleeve 
links have been got, and I have one showing a minute and 
beautiful design in enamelled work. The pottery got here, 
although having a somewhat recent look and so apt to be passed 
over by the young archzologist, is very much rarer than the old 
hand-made pottery and urns of the old ground ; in Ayrshire, after 
thirty-one years’ search, I have seen not more than half-a-dozen 
fragments belonging to this particular type, which consists of a 
considerable number of varieties. From its somewhat recent look 
it seems to be “tabooed” from museums. The articles got at the 
huts are likely to be several hundred years old (probably none of 
them are less than two hundred years old), and in the district there 
is no tradition as to houses ever having been here. The people 
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