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school, which he attended during John Leyden's ushership. Dr 

 Lee was born in 1779 at Torwoodlee Mains, in the parish of 

 Stow, where his father was farmer. In a note in the "Minstrelsy 

 of the Scottish Border," we are warned that the "Caddon Ford," 

 in the "ballad of the Outlaw Murray," which King James and 

 five thousand of his men were crossing, awed by the " derke 

 Foreste them before," was " a ford on the Tweed, not the mouth 

 of the Caddon burn near Yair." 



A very remarkable discovery of ancient remains of the transi- 

 tion period, betwixt the iron and bronze eras, was made in the 

 beginning of May, 1872, half-way between Clovenfords and 

 Caddon-foot. An account of it was communicated by Mr Alex. 

 Michie to the Hawick Archaeological Society, and appears in the 

 Transactions of that year, p. 141 . A party of workmen employed 

 in quarrying stones on a hill-side, which is near Caddon Linns, 

 came on a number of articles, including several iron hammers 

 and spear-heads, as well as bronze ornaments. According to Mr 

 Michie, the bronze ornaments, &c, lay undermost, with the iron 

 implements carefully deposited above them, both covered with 

 about a foot and a half of black loamy soil, which again was 

 covered by several large stones imbedded in the turf. There 

 were no external features to mark the spot further than that the 

 spur of the hill on which they were found is thickly strewed with 

 loose boulders. Before Mr Michie reached the place, a rival 

 collector had outstripped him, " saw the workmen, and secured 

 most of the principal relics, consisting of four iron hammers, 

 each of a different construction, and varying in size from twelve 

 inches in length down to three ; also four iron spear-heads, be- 

 sides a number of other articles, use unknown, but to all appear- 

 ance judging from the portions left these might safely be called 

 pike-heads. In addition to these the workmen secured several 

 of the iron weapons, as also what they took to be a gold broach, 

 but which turned out on examination to be bronze." From the 

 action of rust most of the iron articles fell to pieces when exposed 

 to the air, or were broken by the workmen. Mr Michie recovered 

 several articles, which he deposited in the Hawick Museum. 

 " They consist of two iron hammers, what I take to be a portion 

 of a pike-head, and several pieces of bronze, apparently portions 

 of a bronze broach or buckle," unfortunately broken by the work- 

 men. Several iron and bronze articles still remained in possession 



