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the door-sill of the vault of the Hollows Tower on the river Esk, 

 the residence of " Johnie Armstrong, " (Gilnoekie), of tragic fame, 

 and supposed to have been erected by that Border reiver in the early- 

 part of the sixteenth century. Whence it was at first procured is 

 not stated, but there might still be tangible evidence remaining 

 in the neighbourhood if earnestly sought out. A representation 

 of a double spiral, like that on the stone at the Hollows, resemb- 

 ling the volutes on an Ionic column, is of ready access in the 

 Catalogue of the Museum of the 8. A. 8. p.l 15, from a sculptured 

 stone found in a '* Pict's House " in Eday, Orkney. A very re- 

 markable association of the double pagan volute with a Christian 

 cross may be seen in a figure in the 8cottish 8ociety of Anti- 

 quaries' volume for 1880-81, page 121, in a contribution by Mr 

 William Stevenson on the Antiquities of the Islands of Colonsay 

 and Oransay. A barbarous figure with a human head and a 

 fish's tail, has the arms converted into involute spirals on the 

 transverse beam of the cross. 



The survival of the original central cup and concentric circles 

 of the older Northumbrian sculptures, is suflB.ciently pronounced 

 in the Morwick group ; but art had advanced since a more prim- 

 ative age, and was forming new combinations apparently more 

 ornamental than significant, both in what was added and what 

 was retrenched. This modification is also exemplified in some 

 figures on the sculptured rock at Cuddy's Cove, near Doddington, 

 which have other more modern accompaniments. On one of 

 them the pagan circles and cup are displayed in the centre of a 

 small cross ; shewing a pagan and Christian emblem combined, 

 it may have been contemporaneously. We find there also the 

 horse-shoe arch. 



Ancient British Flint Implements found at Loiu Farnham, 

 Coquetdale. By D. D. DixoN. Plates VI., and VII. 



The accompanying Plates VI and VII show a group of sixteen 

 neolithic flint implements, which have been turned up by the 

 plough in the fields at Low Farnham, in Coquetdale, and collected 

 by Mr John Nicholson. Besides this selection of the various forms, 

 there have been upwards of fifty other flints found. Many of them 

 appear to have been broken by use, and others are apparently 

 chippings struck off in the course of manufacture. Although 

 there is none found in the neighbourhood, flint probably formed 



