232 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Apr. 2, 



Putting together all the evidence which the antiquities yet dis- 

 covered along the Scottish coast-line afford as to the date of the last 

 upheaval of the country, we are led to infer that this upheaval must 

 have taken place long after the first human population settled in the 

 island — ^long after metal implements had come into use, after even 

 the introduction of iron ; and reviewing the position and nature of 

 the relics of the Eoman occupation, we see no ground why the move- 

 ment may not have been effected since the first century of our era ; 

 nay, there appear to be several cogent arguments to make that date 

 the limit of its antiquity. 



Although lines of raised beach, or marine littoral deposits, may 

 be traced round the greater part of the Scottish coast-line, I am not 

 aware that remains of art have been found imbedded in any of 

 them, except in the districts described in the preceding pages. 

 The elevation of the land appears to have been general over the 

 whole of the central districts of Scotland between the Firth of 

 Clyde and the Firths of Forth and Tay. Whether or not the 

 movement extended northwards into the Highland districts, or south- 

 wards into England, must be determined by future observation. In 

 the mean time, we seem at last to have a date for one of the latest, 

 but not least important, changes which have affected a part of the 

 British Isles. 



April 2, 1862. 



Charles Longman, Esq., Shendish, Hemel Hempstead, and Thomas 

 Wyles, Esq., AUesley Park College, Coventry, were elected Fellows. 

 Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, Professor at the University of 

 Gottingen, and M. Pierre Merian, late Professor and Eector of the 

 University of Basel, were elected Foreign Members. 



The following communications were read; — 



of art found along the present coast-line at a height of less than 20 feet above 

 high-water-mark. The causeway of logs, for instance, which crossed a part of the 

 Kincardine Moss, in the Carse of Stirling, is commonly spoken of as Eoman ; but 

 this is mere conjecture. The bronze vessel found in the same moss, and cited by 

 some writers as a Eoman camp-kettle, is most certainly of ancient British work- 

 manship. (See Dr. Wilson's ' Prehistoric Annals,' p. 247.) It is quite possible, 

 indeed, that Eoman masonry may be found at a lower level than 20 feet above 

 the present high- water-mark, just as in ovir own day piers and other pieces 

 of stone-work are constructed which the tide covers twice every twenty-four 

 hours. It does not appear, however, that anything of the kind has yet been 

 described. In short, so far as I am a^re, there are no remains of Eoman build- 

 ings which would be submerged by adepression of the land to the extent of 20 

 or 25 feet ; and there seems, therefore, to be no archseological evidence to con- 

 tradict the conclusion that the land has been actually raised to that extent since 

 the beginning of our era, while the evidence which does exist, whether of anti- 

 quaries or of antiquities, tends materially to confirm that conclusion. 



