134 On a Roman Bronze Patella from Palace, &c. 



P CIPIPOLIBI, and having on the outside opposite to the 

 handle a human face in relief, surrounded by a moveable ring for 

 lifting the vessel." 



Another bronze patella found along with a Pennanular brooch 

 and a clasp or handle at Longfaugh, Crichton, Midlothian, was 

 presented to the Scottish Antiq. Society by the Earl of Stair in 

 1863, and is figured in the Catalogue, p. 127. 



The bowl of a Berwickshire example of a Eoman Patella, 6J 

 inches in diameter, was alighted upon, about the year 1837, with 

 other bronze objects and numerous iron implements enclosed 

 between two globular caldrons of thin beaten-bronze, in cutting 

 a drain in a haugh near the water Eye at Blackburn Mill, in the 

 parish of Oockburnspath. The owner of the estate of that period, 

 Mr W. Waring Hay of Newton, presented the entire collection to 

 the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the 

 circumstances are recorded in the Proceedings of the Society vol. 

 i. p. 43. Dr Joseph Anderson has very recently, in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the same Society, vol. xix. p. 312, while discussing 

 the relative age of bronze caldrons constructed of rivetted plates of 

 thin bronze metal, brought afresh to view this remarkable medley 

 of articles of apparently different periods combined together. It 

 is noticeable in this case, as well as in the examples of the Patellae 

 north of the Borders, that they are furnished not by Eoman settle- 

 ments, but are associated with structures or implements or 

 ornaments belonging to native British tribes. My present belief 

 also is that the instance from Bolton on the river Aln is from a 

 British camp, of the strong character of the native castramentation 

 so frequently exemplified on the surrounding hills of Titlington 

 and Beanly. 



" In cutting a drain in a haugh or meadow," says Dr Anderson, " adjoining 

 the water of Eye, near Oockburnspath, Berwickshire [between 3 or 4 miles 

 distance at least] " in or about the year 1837, two caldrons of thin-beaten 

 bronze were found lying on the snbsoil below the peat. They were of 

 different sizes — one measuring 13 inches diameter and 1\ inches in depth, 

 the other 21 inches diameter and 10 inches in depth. When found, the one 

 caldron was inverted over the other, and both were filled with a quantity 

 of implements and other articles of bronze and iron, but chiefly of the latter 

 material. Among the iron implements are hammers, knives, bolts, hooks, 

 staples, punches, a gouge, some broken buckles and blades, a chain with 

 pot-hooks, and the outer shell of a lamp or crusie of ancient form. Among 

 the bronze objects was the bowl of a Roman patella, 6j inches diameter 

 [and two bronze ornaments.] The whole deposit seemed to have been 

 contained in a wooden pail of lai'ge size, as there were found with it a 



