4^2 Mr. Hardy's Account of Eyemouth Fort. 



ing N.W. and S.E. On digging deeper, the spaces between 

 and around them to the boundary wall, are found to be filled 

 with broken pottery, the debris of cylindrical vessels, exhibit- 

 ing a succession of rings as if turned on a lathe, of great 

 variety of shape, with rounded bottoms but no handles, and 

 with lids or covers, surmounted by rude figures of animals, 

 birds, men, and sometimes by fanciful shapes of grotesque 

 monsters. Having cleared out these and raised the horizontal 

 stone, a simple Hat vase, with wide mouth, of a finer descrip- 

 tion of pottery, is found under each, sometimes with a cover, 

 sometimes without, often broken or even crushed by the 

 weight of the superincumbent slab, in which is deposited 

 the articles of value, with a few fragments of incinerated 

 bone, and a little black mould. The ornaments and utensils, 

 many of which Avere on the table, consisted of gold pendants, 

 rings, fibulse, chains, small vases of bronze or alloy, for con- 

 taining scents, or the antimony or collyrium used to blacken 

 the eyelids, the rods for applying the same, bronze-tazzas and 

 caps, beads, «S:c. The workmanship of the gold articles was 

 rude though elegant,many of them not chased with the graver, 

 but the pattern formed by twisting thin plates or slips of gold 

 into the required pattern. Others were more skilfully wrought 

 in filagree, and some had the remains of stones or glass set 

 in them. Several of the tazzas were remarkable for having a 

 large, solid, oval knob in the centre, soldered to the bottom, 

 the object of which is not apparent. Besides these were 

 many implements of iron, much oxidized, as spears, knives, 

 sickles, razors, tweezers, &c. ; and some finer weapons, as 

 spears set in a richly chased metal alloy, and in one instance, 

 a metal mirror. A few weapons of bronze were also met with. 

 Drawings and sections of the tombs, on a large scale, were 

 attached to the wall ; and drawings of the pottery and more 

 perishable articles were handed round. 



An Account of Eyemouth Fort. By James Haedy. 



The only remains of the Fort at Eyemouth, (near which the 

 members of the Club assembled), are " The foundations of the 

 walls of a small quadrangular tower on the verge of a deep 

 trench at the land-ward extremity of the clifi"; " with a series 

 of oblong mounds and pits scattered round it. This fortifica- 

 tion, once a source of disquietude to both realms, was first 

 erected by the Duke of Somerset, in 1547 ; his first survey 



