118 Notices concerning Oznam Parish. By J. Hardy. 



Greenough found it near Fort-William, in the Highlands of 

 Scotland ; and I observed it in Mainland, one of the Shetland 

 Islands." (Jameson's System of Mineralogy, vol. i., pp. 206-7.) 

 There is thus a possibility of this beautiful implement having 

 been manufactured in this country, but greater likelihood that the 

 original owner either brought it himself or obtained it by barter 

 from the continent. 



Mr Stavert writes me that nothing else has been found since, 

 except one of the stones of a quern, which the workmen unfor- 

 tunately broke for road-metal. These however are to be obtained 

 wherever there have been old houses, as well as in British camps. 



The only other article to be noticed is a curious brass ring, 

 which was shown to me by Mr George Simson, Oourthill, parish 

 of Nenthorn, who picked it up 

 about 40 years ago, on a stony 

 glitter on one of the hills on the 

 farm of Eiccalton (his native 

 place) near the head of Oxnam 

 Water. It is here engraved of 

 the natural size. It is ornamented 

 on one side only, and closes by an 

 overlap of the two ends. There 

 was probably a clasp across the 

 two ends of the ring to keep them 

 closed. It appears to me to be a 

 key-ring, of an older date than X"'** Rin 9, Sicealton, Box. 



those used for suspending watch-keys. 



Mr Simson in sending it called my attention to a field on the 

 farm of Eiccalton called the " Priestfield " where there appear 

 to be some foundations of old buildings, that I had not the oppor- 

 tunity of examining. About this field Mr T. Elliot Boog informs 

 me : "I have always an impression that at Eiccalton some 

 interesting discoveries might be made. I have drained a large 

 portion of the farm, but the "Priestfield," where there is what 

 is still known as the "Kirstening Well," has never been touched. 

 [This is also called the "Priest's field well:" there are foundations 

 near it.] There are evident remains of a church and probably 

 a small hamlet. The "Priestfield" has been partly under cul- 

 tivation — probably a hundred years ago — but is really now only 

 a "hillside." (Spylaw, Kelso, 28th Oct. 1885.) 



This ' Priestfield ' appears to have belonged to Jedburgh Abbey 



