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length, by 23 inches in breadth and 14 inch in thickness, present- 
ing in the cross section a flattened oval. The shaft-hole is 
partially perforated from each face, and is at a right angle to the 
edges, which are rounded instead of sharp. The implement has 
therefore in all probability been intended for a weapon instead of 
a tool. 
III. Quern.—A Quern, consisting of an upper stone 20 
inches in diameter and a lower stone 21 inches in diameter, both 
of quartz, found in a peat bog at Canobie, and presented to the 
National Museum in 1863. The upper stone has three small 
socket-holes for the handle on its upper face. 
IV. Carved Stone Bali.—A hall of felspathic greenstone, 23 
inches in diameter, ornamented with six projecting circular discs, 
is stated by Dr (now (Sir) Daniel Wilson to have been “ found 
near the line of the old Roman way which 
runs through Dumfriesshire on its north- 
ern from Carlisle.” While the large per- 
forated hammers already described are 
common in the south of Scotland and 
rare in the northern counties, exactly the 
reverse is the case with these stone balls. 
The only other south country specimens 
known to me is an imperfect one found 
Fig. 1.—Carved Stone Ball in 1886 on the farm of Stelloch, Glasser- 
pe aE unyrieaelire. ton, Wigtownshire, and presented to the 
National Museum by Sir Herbert Maxwell, and a fine one of white 
quartz, 3 inches in diameter, with six projecting discs, found in 
Cree Moss, Wigtownshire, and now in the Thornhill Museum. In 
the north-eastern counties, especially in Aberdeenshire, they are 
found in considerable numbers. Only one specimen is known to 
me to have been found outside Scotland, namely, the one in the 
British Museum, which is said to have been found near Ballymena, 
County Antrim, in 1850. In all probability this specimen may 
really be a Scotch one carried over, lost and afterwards found in 
the place mentioned. The Dumfriesshire specimen is shown in 
fig. 1, and has also been figured elsewhere.* 
* Catalogue of the Museum, 1876, p. 39 ; Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals of 
Scotland, Vol. L., p. 195 ; Evans’ Ancient Stone Implements, p. 376 ; Proceed- 
ings of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, Vol. XI., p. 36; Anderson, 
Scotland in Pagan Times, First Series, p. 169. 
