546 On Ancient Stone and Flint Instruments, by J. Hardy. 



Burnfoot, where it formed part of the collection gathered from 

 the land by the late Mr William Purves. Furnished by Mr 

 Lillie. 



Fig. 4. This is a very fine, thin, oblong-oval piece of flint of 

 a deep brown tortoise-shell colour, with some rounded specks of 

 gray. The flint of this and the next is almost identical in aspect. 

 It belongs to the class of knives treated of by Mr Evans, in his 

 "Ancient Stone Implements of Britain," p. 302, etc. It has 

 been formed of one large flake, which has been repeatedly 

 chipped on both sides to thin it. The edges have been more 

 minutely chipped all round to sharpen them, and excepting on 

 one side and part of one end, have been ground smooth. A flaw 

 or hiatus in the ground end has been chipped. This would make 

 a good butter, or cheese, or tallow slicer. Length, 4 ; breadth, 

 2£ ; thickness, £ inches. Weight, 3£ oz. This is from Mr E.. 

 Benton's collection, who notes that it was " found by A. Kerr, in 

 a field on the farm of Butterlaw, near Coldstream, about 1867." 



Fig. 5 is a good example of a duck-bill Scraper. It is of a fine 

 deep brown coloured flint, mixed with yellowish gray. It is 

 rather coarsely chipped all round the edges ; the butt end has 

 also been chipped. A few longitudinal flakes have been struck 

 from the one face, but the other has the smooth natural fracture. 

 Length, 2J ; greatest breadth, 1% ; smaller end, f- inches. I have 

 selected this as the best of several other chipped flints gathered 

 by Mr Eenton at Threeburnford, in Lauderdale, 1876-7. 

 Plate X. 



Fig. 1 is a fragment of an Urn obtained in November, 1874, 

 at Elliesheugh, on the farm of Cliftoncote, in the parish of How- 

 nam, and has already been described by Mr Thomas Craig, in 

 the present vol. of the " Proceedings," p. 130. The design is a 

 sort of V-shaped ornament, either upright or reversed, which has 

 been impressed on the soft clay of the urn, by portions of plaited 

 thong or rush. A plaited line had also been carried all round 

 below the lip of the urn, and above the zig-zag attempts at 

 decoration. This line is shewn in the figure, which has been 

 drawn reversed. The shot-like holes in the thickness of the rim, 

 as well as on the interior surface of the urn, appear to be the re- 

 sult of design. The holes in the inside are represented on the 

 plate. They are shallow, and have been made by a piece of 

 blunt stick, perhaps. 



