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Wc are indebted to ]\Ir Bruce of Dalshangaii for the follomng 

 note of observations taken during 1889 at Dalshangan, in the 

 parish of Carsphairn, which is about 500 feet above sea level. 

 Temperature— highest, in June 79-5 deg ; lowest, in March, 14 

 deg; range, 65-5 deg. ; mean temperature of the year, 45-9. Rain- 

 fall — rainiest month, December, 6-07 in. ; driest, June, 073 in. 

 Total for year, 44-50 in. 



II. Notice of Antiquities found in Dumfriesshire, and now t>resetvtd 



in the National Museum in Edinburgh. By Geokge F. 



Black, Ph.D. 



In describing the objects and implements from Dumfriesshire 



in the National Museum it will be convenient to take them in the 



order of their antiquity. According to this arrangement the 



implements of flint and stone are the first to be described. 



Tiie implements of flint, stone, and bronze found in Dumfries- 

 shire and now in the National INIuseum are few compared with the 

 number from one or two of the neighbouring counties, as, for 

 example, Wigtownshire.* Nevertheless, the specimens, such as 

 they are, are interesting and valuable for the purposes of compara- 

 tive archaeology. 



STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



I. Axes. — Axehead, or celt of felstonc, 6i inches in length, 

 by three inches across the widest part at the cutting edge, which 

 is of oblique form. The sides are flat, and the cutting edge is 

 slightly fractured on each face. The obliquity of the cutting edge 

 is supposed by some archaeologists to be due to resharpening. This 

 axehead was found at Dinwoodie Green, and was added to the 

 Museum by purcliase. An axe of the rare type, with sharp sides, 

 was discovered in blowing up some large stones, possibly those of 

 a dolmen, at Mains, near Dumfries, in 1779, and is described in 

 the Archaologia (vol, vii., p. 414) as of " fine granite stone, highly 

 polished, 9 inches long, 4;^ broad at one end, tapering to the other, 

 its thickness in the middle % of an inch, and quite sharp at the 

 edges all round." t 



II. Wedge-shaped Hammers. — About the year 1840, Mr 

 Graham, of the farm of Westhills, near the Solway, took down an 



* The great abundance of the specimens from Wigtownshire is clue to 

 the fact that the sandhills of Glenluce, like those at Culbin, Elginshire, 

 occupy the site of a prehistoric flint implement manufactory. 



t Quoted by Evans, Ancient Stone Implemenln, p. 97. 



