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guessed it to be one, and thinking it might be full of coins 
emptied out the contents with his knife. Mr Dickie arriving on 
the scene, got him to replace the contents, which appeared to be 
nothing but clay, or rather fine sand. In looking about they 
noticed some pieces of bone, and these they also put into the 
urn. Mr Dickie gave the urn to me, which I now exhibit and 
present to this Society. On visiting the place I ascertained that 
it was lying on its side, and was at the depth of four feet and a 
half below the surface. It is of red clay, burnt, unglazed, very 
fine in texture, ornamented with three lines—two at its widest 
part, with a row of dots between, and one } inch from the top. 
Between the top line and that next below there are fine diagonal 
cross-lines. The three lines are clearly cut as if made by a sharp 
instrument. From the accompanying drawing, kindly made by 
Mr Robert Barbour, its dimensions will be easily seen. It is 24 
inches high, 14 inches in diameter at the base, and slopes grace- 
fully to its greatest diameter, which is 3 inches at 1} from the 
base, then gradually contracts to 24 inches at the top. There 
are two small holes pierced through one side about half an inch 
apart. I have looked carefully for a lid or covering, and also for 
a larger urn, but up to the present have not discovered either, 
On Friday evening Mr Barbour and I visited the place, and on 
digging to the depth of 4} feet we found numerous pieces of 
bones, lying on the same level as the urn had been, and within a 
radius of 1} feet. These bones we collected, also two pieces of 
charcoal, and some of the darker coloured sand with a piece of 
the skull embedded therein. The fragments of bones are not 
larger than an inch and a half, and are evidently portions of a 
human skeleton, and I think a full grown male. However, I 
have these specimens for further examination by experts if desir- 
able. When the greystone was buried, I have ascertained that 
a hole was dug at the side, and that it was pushed into it, in the 
direction from the wall or towards the north. The urn was 
found on the south side of the stone when buried, and we found 
the fragments of bones on the south side of the place where the 
stone had lain, so we may conclude that the urn and bones were 
very close together, and that they were buried in a grave four 
and a half feet below the present level of the field, or three feet 
and a half below the top layer of soil, and that the greystone 
originally marked the site of this interment. From these par- 
ticulars, I venture to express the opinion that the urn is an 
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