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of Science and Art (Trans. Soc Antiq. of Scot., 1889-90, p. 208-9); 

 two stone axes, one from Mains, found in 1779 (Archavlugia, vii., 

 414), and another found at James Street (i.e., the west portion of 

 M'Lellan Street), Dumfries, which evidently had been used also as 

 a hammer stone {Tran.<i. D. & G. N. H. & A. Soc, 1876-8, p. 18). 

 There is also a large stone axe at Tullie House, Carlisle, labelled 

 "Dumfries" (A 11 No. 203). A hammer stone was found on the 

 Whitesands (op. cit., 1910-11, p. 321). A stone celt was found on 

 removing one of the arches of the Old Bridge {op. cit., 1862-3, p. 49), 

 and another was found at Kelton, Dumfries (op. cit., 1886-7, p. 76). 

 Two whorls of claystone were found on Dargavel Farm {op. cit., 

 1910-11, p. 324), and a stone sinker was found in the Nith near the 

 Caul {op. cit., 1909-10, p. 235). Two stone cists have been laid 

 bare, one near Tinwald Downs {op. cit., 1863-4, p. 2), and the other 

 on The Quarry Hill, Locharbriggs (op. cit., 1896-7, p. 74). 



23 All that can with certainty be said of these coins is that 

 they were struck in the western part of England at a rather late 

 period of the British Coinage. To this may be added the pro- 

 bability that on them is preserved a portion, or possibly the whole 

 of the name of some prince, and that he reigned over the Boduni, 

 a tribe whose capital, according to Ptolemy, was Corinium (Ciren- 

 cester), and who were located in and around Gloucestershire, the 

 county in which the coins have principally been found. John 

 Evans, F.S.A., in "Notes on an Ancient British Gold Coin 

 inscribed ' Bodvoc,' " by George Sim, Proc Soc. Antiq. Scot., iv., 

 432. 



25a The shrine of St. Ninian at Whithorn was visited by great 

 numbers of pilgrims, and Dumfries lay en route for the majority of 

 these. In 1425 James I. granted a protocol to all strangers coming 

 into Scotland on lailgrimage to the shrine. Royal visits were fre- 

 quently made, and we may note the following: — Edward H., then 

 Prince of Wales, in 1300; Robert Bruce, in 1329 (lioyal Com. Ancient 

 Mon., Wigtown, p. 163); Margaret, mother of James IV., in 1473; 

 James IV.", in 1491, 1492, 1496, 1497, 1498, 1501, 1503 (twice), 1604, 

 1505, 1506, 1507 (twice), 1508; James V., 1526, 1533 {Tran.s. Scottish 

 Ecclesiological Society, vol. i., p. 148). 



24 At Castledykes the river flows over a rocky bottom. This 

 was at one time much higher than now, having been blasted away 

 for navigation purposes and to allow freer way for the water. This 

 natural dam would provide a shallow and broken water suitable 

 for a ford. Similarly there was a "rack" near Bank Street which 

 kept the river back and broadened it, aiding, if not making, the 

 ford at Nith Street. This rack was known as the Chapel Rack 

 from the Chapel of the Willies adjacent, and was cut in 1704. 



25 This lane runs up to Church Street. Its course is then 

 doubtful. It may have turned up to Bilbow and run by the 

 Rotchell Road. Its course becomes clear at the Newabbey Road 

 from that point being now called Park Road. 



