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We are indebted to Mr Bruce of Dalshangan for the following 
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, 0°73 in. 
Total for year, 44-50 in. 
Il. Notice of Antiquities found in Dumfriesshire, and now preserved 
in the National Museum in Edinburgh. By GeorGe F. 
Back, 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. 
The implements of flint, stone, and bronze found in Dumfries 
shire and now in the National Museum 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 archeology. 
STONE IMPLEMENTS. 
1. Axes.—Axchead, or celt of felstone, 64 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 archzologists to be due to resharpening. This 
axehead was found at Dinwoodie Green, and was added to the 
Museum by purchase. 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 17 79, and is described in 
the Archwologia (vol. vii., p. 414) as of “ fine granite stone, highly 
polished, 9 inches long, 43 broad at one end, tapering to the other, 
its thickness in the middle ¢ of an inch, and quite sharp at the 
edges all round.” + 
Il. 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 due to 
the fact that the sandhills of Glenluce, like those at Culbin, Elginshire, 
occupy the site of a prehistoric flint implement manufactory. 
+ Quoted by Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, p. 97. 
