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surveyor, of the environs of the hall, within a semicircular 

 radius of 1 J or 2 miles from the river, which might be accom- 

 plished at trifling cost, on a sheet of the 25-inch ordnance 

 survey. This would probably throw light on the origin of 

 the principal edifice, and lead to inferences indicative of the 

 purpose for which it was erected. 



The most remarkable relic discovered in clearing out the 

 ruins is an octagonal bronze fibula or brooch with a chased 

 pattern, which has been submitted for the opinion of Mr. 

 Albert Way. 



Several ancient burial places have been examined during 

 the season in the neighbourhood of Hawick. In February 

 last Dr. Brydon of Hawick, assisted by Lord Rosehill and 

 some members of the Hawick Archaeological Society, opened 

 some ancient burial places on the farm of Tiendside, on the 

 Teviot, about five miles above the town. Their examination, 

 which was prosecuted on two several occasions, disclosed a 

 group of -four regular cists, and a fifth of somewhat different 

 form. In one of the former only the remains of a human 

 skeleton were found, which had been deposited in a sitting 

 posture, with some bits of charcoal. In a second they met 

 with a terra cotta vessel about six inches high, incinerated 

 bones of some animal, a flint chip or arrow head, a piece of 

 radiated iron pyrites, and some black mould. Of the con- 

 tents of the third and fourth cists, little was discovered to 

 show the purpose for which they had been used. The whole 

 four occupied a semicircular space, at the back of which was 

 the last-mentioned cavity, containing a large quantity of 

 charcoal and burnt bones, among which were five human 

 teeth in good preservation, part of a pelvis and a thigh-bone, 

 which crumbled to pieces, a small flint knife and some flint 

 chippings, the fragments of an earthen vessel, &c. " The 

 whole floor was paved with flint stones, which were covered 

 with a continuous layer of charcoal. From this it appears 

 that the body, having been surrounded by firewood, was 

 burned in a sitting posture."* ' 



* Trans. Hawick Arch, Soc. for Apiil, 1869. 



