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3. Plate II., fig. 4. A very perfect, smaller-sized celt, of pre- 

 cisely the same variety of greywacke slate as No. 1 ; but lighter 

 and thinner. The butt-end has a blunt conical edge ; both sur- 

 faces are convex, but one is smoother than the other. The 

 scratches of the original polishing still remain, it being dressed 

 all over. It has a smooth narrow lateral space. In forming the 

 broad end, the one side has been more bevelled than the other. 

 The cutting edge is beautifully polished, and has been designedly 

 blunted all round ; and has a greenish tint. It is of the same 

 material, has the same white tarnish, the same rusty streaks, and 

 tawny freckles, and the same surface of the unpolished hollows, 

 as No. 1. We may therefore conclude, that it was manufactured 

 in Lauderdale, from the same quarry as that celt. It is in 

 length, 5^ inches; breadth 1-2-2^- inches; thickness 1 inch; 

 weight 9 oz. Found on the Palinsburn estate, and communicated 

 by Watson Askew, Esq. 



4. Plate II., fig. 5. Pather smaller than the last, and more 

 tapered at the smaller end, of a finer pale grey slate, which 

 admits of a higher polish, considerably freckled with iron-nodules 

 (decayed pyrites), less convex, somewhat flattened on the ridge ; 

 a much thicker polished side area ; with a remarkably fine sharp 

 edge at the widest end, which is flatter on one side than the 

 other ; the butt-end is cut directly across and blunted. Before 

 it has been polished one side has been rubbed down lengthways. 

 This is a fresh polished article, with the shine of the polishing 

 process unimpaired. It appears never to have been used. 

 Length 4f- inches ; breadth from 1-2J inches ; thickness, ^ inch ; 

 weight 7|- oz. This was found in Feb., 1876, by Mr Balsillie, 

 Jun., of Dykegatehead, parish of Whitsome, on the surface in a 

 turnip field, where sheep were netted on, on the south side of the 

 Pistol Plantings. The soil is gravelly. It may have been 

 turned up from a grave. 



5. Plate IY., fig. 1., full size. A neat small celt finely polished 

 all over, leaving no traces of the manner in which it has been 

 planed, of a pale grey slate, similar to the last, but not identical, 

 marked with many brown river-like broken lines in its composi- 

 tion ; rounded sloped to the sides ; where the side area is not so 

 broad as the last, and more accurately formed ; the whole article 

 having had much pains taken with it. It is sloped down to the 

 butt-end, which is finely sharpened ; and is triangularly equally 



