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found on the east sideof the house atSunderland Hall, in 1791, and 

 is still preserved there. Its height is 7 inches ; girth 1 9 inches ; 

 diameter of mouth 5 inches. The metal is joined down the side. 

 Colour uniform green. 



There is a series of these handled tripod pots in the museum 

 of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ; and as some of them 

 are of local interest, and are illustrative of the Thirlestane and 

 Sunderland Hall examples, they may be quoted here from the 

 Catalogue, p. 102. No. 234. Pot, 7 by 4^ inches, with 3 feet, 

 handle 4 inches long, dug up on the farm of Long Tester, 

 Haddingtonshire. (W. W. Hay, 1831). No. 235. Pot, 7 by 5 

 inches, with 3 feet (handle broken) found at Dudhope near 

 Galashiels, Selkirkshire. (Eobt. Mercer of Scotsbank, 1862). No. 

 273. Pot, 8 1 by 5^ inches, with 3 feet, and plain handle 6^ 

 inches long, foundat Langton, Berwickshire. (John Gow, 1867). 

 No. 238. Pot, 8 inches high (broken) with 3 feet and handle 

 (broken) ornamented with double concentric circles, found in 

 draining the Pot Loch, Scotsbank, Selkirkshire. (Gideon Scott, 

 1870). 



Additional Notes to Papers of 1882 and 1883. By Miss 



KUSSELL. 



The name of Deloraine in Selkirkshire is sufficiently well known, owing 

 to The Lay of the Last Minstrel ; but it is not generally known that in the 

 country it is uniformly, and correctly, pronounced Del6ran. 



The received derivation is " De Loraine," Mary of Lorraine-Guise 

 having been one of the queens who had the royal jointure-lands of Ettrick 

 Forest ; but neither that nor other proper names which have been suggested 

 appear to me to contain the elements of the name as pronounced. 



I had come to this conclusion lately, when something suggested the 

 the name of St Oran, the well-known companion of St Columba; and then 

 remembered that the small stream is called Rankilburn, and that there is 

 an old church upon it, and that Ean-kil means church-boundary or division 

 in Gaelic ; Dal-Oran would be Oran's Portion : and as the name seems to 

 be this word unchanged, I infer that the church is probably one of those 

 founded by Aidan and the twelve monks from lona, under Oswy of 

 Northumbria, about A.D. 640. The church being pushed close up to the 

 British frontier is quite like the policy of the Saxon kings j the line of the 

 Oatrail, whether traceable or traditional, goes by Rankilburn. The 

 element " Kil," or church, in this name, I find has been remarked before. 



