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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 
the 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 the northern point of the circle. 
I 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 foundations of Mr Reid’s house, 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 the 
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 
