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old wall, which was said to have stood upwards ot two hundred 
years, and the hammer here described was found embedded in it. 
The hammer is of whinstone, and measures 113 inches in length, 
by 44 inches across the widest part at the butt end, tapering to a 
point at the other, and is 2} inches in thickness. A haft-hole has 
been perforated through the flat face at about 3 inches from the 
butt end. 
A hammer of greenstone, 10 inches in length, by 44 inches in 
breadth and 3 inches in thickness, was found at Kirk of Dunscore, 
and presented to the National Museum in 1827. It is a finely- 
made specimen, with a broad rounded butt gradually tapering to a 
sharp cutting edge at the other extremity. It weighs 64 Ibs. The 
haft-hole is 2 inches in diameter on the outside, narrowing to 13 
inch in the middle of the thickness. 
The third and last specimen is of whinstone, 74 inches in 
length, by 3 inches in breadth and 2# inches in thickness, and is 
unsymmetrical in form. The haft-hole is 2 inches in diameter on 
the outside, narrowing to one inch in the middle of the thickness. 
Several fine specimens of these implements are in the collec- 
tion of the late Dr Grierson at Thornhill, and have been briefly 
described by me in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 
Scotland, Vol. X. (New Series), pp. 374, 375. 
A large and characteristic specimen of this type of implement 
was found on the site of a lake dwelling in the Loch of Friars’ 
Carse, and is now in the possession of the proprietor of the place. 
It is of hard whinstone, 10 inches in length, by 5 inches in greatest 
breadth and nearly 3 inches in thickness, and has been several 
times figured.* 
It is an interesting fact in archeology that this type of 
implement is much more common in the south than in the north 
of Scotland. Ayr, Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, and Dumfries are the 
four shires in which they are found in greatest number. 
In the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art there is a fine 
specimen of a hammer of a type peculiar to Shetland and the 
extreme north of Scotland. It is said to have been found in a 
wall at Dumfries, and is the largest specimen of the type known to 
me to have been found in Scotland. It measures 5 inches in 
* Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. IV., New 
Series, p. 76; Munro, Scottish Lake Dwellings, p. 156, and Lake Dwellings of 
Europe, p. 440; Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times, Second Series, p. 317. 
