18 Report of Meetings for 1879, by James Hardy. 



so wasted, that when exposed to the air, they fell to pieces. Of 

 this I have a portion. Of another domestic utensil, but in this 

 instance a brass pot, I find a notice in the Berwick Advertiser 

 of July 15, 1843. "In the course of last week, there was 

 dug up from a moss, in the neighbourhood of Eenton, a large 

 brass-pot, which from its peculiar form and the manner in which 

 it is in various places corroded and worn, has evidently been 

 concealed for many centuries. It has been sold (in Berwick) 

 for old metal." In 1872, another bronze pot was dug up in 

 Greenwood moss, and is now in the possession of Miss Stirling 

 of Eenton House. It is a very neat example, and is entirely 

 smooth ; the three ribbed feet are very short, and barely suflB.ce 

 to keep the pot off the ground. It is furnished with loops for 

 a handle. It is 11 inches high; and 33 inches in circuit at 

 its greatest circumference. I have a bronze pot very similar, 

 which is 10 inches in diameter at the top, and 7 inches at the 

 neck ; its greatest circumference is 35^ inches ; and it stands 

 11 inches high. The only ornament that it has are three low 

 parallel ridges round the middle. It was ploughed up from 

 a peaty deposit- in a field at Ecklaw, which lies up towards 

 Hoprig-shiels, in the parish of Cockburnspath. There is 

 something mysterious about these bronze-pots and caldrons 

 being in most cases extracted from peat-mosses, or weU- 

 eyes. I notice that in Mr Campbell's West Highland Tales, No. 

 xxxi. (ii. p. 104) — " Osean after the Feen", written down in the 

 island of Barra, that Osean cooks nine gigantic stags in the great 

 caldron of the Teen, which was deposited within a knoll of 

 rushes, that being the exact description of a grown-up well-head. 

 It was certainly a most effective mode of concealment. 



After dinner at the Eed Lion Inn, Mr Watson, Dunse, ex- 

 hibited the skin of a Stockdove {Columla^nas) shot at Nisbet near 

 Dunse, where several had been seen. It was mentioned that 

 Mr George Bolam, Berwick, had found two eggs of the Stock- 

 dove in a rabbit-hole at Hutton Bridge ; and Mr Muirhead said 

 that recently a Dotterel had appeared on Lamberton moor, where 

 birds of that kind had not been seen for several years. About 

 the same period, a flock frequented the hill above the post-road 

 near Headchesters, on Eedheugh farm, on a newly-sown field 

 near the moor edge. Mr Thomson mentioned that he had seen 

 in Mr Brotherston's shop at Kelso a very fine female Peregrine 



