Amber and Jkt in Anciknt Biriai.s. 119 



bugle beads, 6 flat plates, and a pendant of Jet or Cannel 

 Coal.29 At Houston, Renfrewshire, in a cist were many 

 trinkets of a jet black substance, and more necklaces at 

 Abcrlemno, Forfarshire; also at Rothie, Aberdeenshire; at 

 Rafford, Elginshire; Fordoun House, Kincardineshire; and 

 i.cuchland Toll, near Brechin. A very fine necklace of Jet 

 was found at Mount Stewart, Bute, of more than one hun- 

 dred pieces. Buttons of Jet appeared in a cist at Dundee 

 Law, also on Crawford Moor, Lanarkshire. Jet beads have 

 been found at Keith Marshall in East Lothian and at Aber- 

 ncthy, and a ring of Jet in a cairn in the parish of Inchinnane 

 about the year 175^^, and preserved in the parish of East 

 Kilbride as an inestimable specific in diseases.^ 



In this paper our chief interest lies in the finds of Jet 

 in Tialloway, and, above all, in the description of those dis- 

 co\cred by the Rev. George Wilson, of Glenluce. He gave 

 his collection from this district to the Society of Antiquaries 

 of Scotland, where it may be seen in their museum. An 

 entire Jet bracelet was found when digging in a crannog 

 at Barnhapple Loch, Derskilpin, Glenluce, October, 1880. 

 The beads found in a small clay urn, we are told, were met 

 with near Stranraer, where a railway cutting was being made 

 in 1859-1860. Mr Wilson says : — " The Rev. Daniel Con- 

 way, of St. John's Chapel, Port-Glasgow, wrote to me as 

 follows : — ' Some navvies came upon a number of clay urns 

 about the size of a coffee cup, and having the herring-bone 

 design marked upon them near the rim on the outside. I 

 had one of them in mv hands, in which were found a number 

 of Lignite beads. The urns were placed with mouth down- 

 wards on a slate-like slab.'" He continues: — "The 

 labourer to whom he referred me described the locality where 

 they were found. It is a little to the east of the signal box 

 at Stranraer Station, where a cutting runs through the 

 march fence of Little Airds Farm. Father Conway promised 

 to try and trace the beads for me, and in January, 1878, 

 wrote to me : — ' I herewith send you the beads, and gi\e you 



29 ]>n,c. of Sor. Ant. Smt.. vol. 14. p. 26. 



30 Evans' Anrievt Stone ImpJementx. p. 462. 



