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channels which join on the north side of the road and were 
feund continuing on the other side of the road for a few yards, 
and reaching a depth of 15 feet. The theory propounded re- 
garding them is that to the north of the Monastery, where 
there is still some hollow and rushy ground, there may have 
been a small lake, and that the water from here was used by 
the monks to drive a water mill to grind their corn. Near 
the water channels there is also a well, and higher up there is 
another one of later date. 
Small articles were not found very profusely, and those 
of interest have been removed by Major Keswick to Cowhill. 
He has kindly consented to the Antiquarian Society taking 
charge of the pottery and glass fragments. These and the 
other finds were viewed at Cowhill Tower. Amongst them 
were an interesting grave cover, with a sword incised upon 
it suggesting the grave of a Knight of Jerusalem, also a 
sculptured head, probably an ecclesiastic, dating from the 
13th century, and which has now been built into a doorway 
on the west side of Cowhill Tower. The figure is high- 
cheeked, and shown with a short clipped beard, and is in all 
respects similar to other sculpture found at Whithorn Priory. 
Several pieces of moulded stone of a 13th century date were 
also found, in addition to a considerable amount of broken 
pottery and a few fragments of glass, the former being 
described by an expert as belonging to the 15th century. 
One of the pieces shows an early type of greybeard jug, one of 
the handles being moulded with a bearded face, the beard 
forming the handle. Another fragment was of a shape quite 
unfamiliar to the expert to whom it was submitted. A 
Skulls and human bones were found in large quantities 
in the place mentioned as a chapter house, but they seemed 
to have been put in anyway. In the field beyond, graves in 
regular layers were exposed. 
At the manse the visitors were shown some sculptured 
fragments, which had been found at various times on the site 
of the Abbey, consisting of the boss of a cross and two por- 
tions of a cross shaft showing sculpture with human figures, 
suggesting Adam and Eve, and serpents or dragons, but with- 
out any interlaced work. 
