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found at Norham Castle, and shows a flat surface with con- 

 centric grooves, the other surface was convex and ornamented, 

 but it has been much battered and obliterated, and the per- 

 foration is blocked up with a piece of stone. As most of 

 these relics have been found within the ruined castle and 

 castle moat they are doubtless of considerable antiquity, and 

 the style of ornamentation, consisting of pellets and radi- 

 ating ribs, having a resemblance to the figures on the silver 

 pennies of the Edwards and Henries, their date may be some 

 time in the fifteenth century. It is more difficult to say to what 

 purpose they were applied. Similar forms of earthenware 

 and stone have been regarded as spindle whorls, but there 

 are no objects associated with our leaden relics to throw light 

 on the subject. It is much to be regretted that nearly all 

 the leaden rings found previous to 1858, and there were a 

 considerable number of them, were melted down for bullets 

 for the Handsell Monday's shooting. 



T. Y. GREET. 



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Anthemis cotula. Fields near Lucker Station, in 1865. 

 Dr. Maclagan, of Berwick. 



Dr. Johnston states in the Botany of the Eastern Borders 

 that this plant is mentioned as a common weed by Benley 

 and CuUey, but that it had never occurred to him on the 

 Eastern Borders. 



