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meetings, and representations were made to the late proprietor 

 of the field, and to the tenant, but without success. Last year 

 tlie field in which this stone was situated was purchased by ^Mr 

 William Dickie, Victoria Terrace, Dumfries, and soon afterwards 

 I waited upon him, and solicited him to favour this Society and 

 the community at large by again raising the stone, and placing it 

 in such a suitable position that the public could have access 

 thereto. Mr Dickie kindly promised to grant this request as 

 soon as he obtained possession of the field ; and I have now to 

 report that this stone was dug up on Monday, the 21st March, 

 1887, and that it is at present lying within eight feet of its 

 original site, it being that distance to the north. Time will not 

 permit me to notice the history of this stone further than to say 

 that it is one of a so-called Druidical Circle which formerly stood 

 on that knoll, and that it was on tlie northern point of the circle. 

 T may mention, however, that Mr W. G. Gibson informs me that 

 the late Mr John Brodie remembered several stones standing 

 there in a circle, and that he frequently played leap-frog over 

 them when a boy. Mr Brodie also stated that three of these 

 stones were buried in the foundaticms of Mr Reid's liouse, a 

 fourth was built into the wall at the Mile-house, and a fifth 

 was lying at the entrance gate of the field. The greystone, that 

 at the Mile-house, and the one at the gate are boulders of Silurian 

 grit, and are dissimilar from the rocks quarried in the district 

 Tt was in searching for the greystone that the Urn, the subject 

 of this paper, was found. On Thursday, 17th March, 1887, 

 workmen commenced excavating for the foundations of a house 

 which Mr Dickie purposes building there, and they picked up 

 three old coins — two halfpennies and a farthing — and the bowl 

 of an elfin or old tobacco pipe. These I exhibit and present to 

 the Society. The coins are too much worn, by being so long in 

 the earth, to be deciphered correctly, and the pipe I believe to be 

 of no very distant date. These were found in the top layer of 

 mould, which has been frequently ploughed and manured. 

 Thinking that articles of greater interest might be found, I men- 

 tioned it to Mr Dickie, who promised to make arrangements with 

 the contractor for their security and receipt. On Monday tlie 

 greystone was discovered, and in excavating around it, one of the 

 workmen noticed something which he said " looked like a turnip," 

 and lifted it to the surface on his spade. As Mr Dickie and I 

 had been speaking of urns on the Thursday, the man at once 



