Stone Qist near Eckford. By J. G. Winning. 179 



Mr Forrest, Jedburgh, writes me that when lie visited Otter- 

 burn in 1839 or 1840, there were two very perfect Urns in the 

 house. One must have disappeared since. 



This Urn and the one subsequently detected at Weater 

 Wooden, furnish a key to the character of any others likely to 

 occur in cists in that neighbourhood. Seldom, however, does 

 the design of any two Urns correspond ; and it is thus desirable, 

 that as relics of primitive art, every peculiarly marked example 

 obtainable should be engraved. 



Notes on the Opening of a Stone Cist near Eckford Village, 

 in the Parish of Eckford, Roxburghshire. By John G. 

 Winning. 



In accordance with instructions received from Win. Eliott 

 Lockhart, Esq., of Borthwickbrae, etc., Chamberlain to His 

 Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, I went to Eckford, on Saturday, 

 6th June, 1885, in order to examine a stone cist reported to have 

 been found in a field at Eckford, belonging to His Grace. I 

 there met the Bev. Dr Leishman, of Linton, President of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, who had heard of the find, and 

 who was present during the whole examination. 



Accompanied by James Clinton, forester to His Grace at 

 Eckford, and Peter Tait, joiner, the tenant of the field, we went 

 to the place where the cist was found. This place is situatod on 

 the top of a gentle knoll, rising a little above the 200 contour 

 line of the Ordnance Survey, and is within the field marked 

 " part 482 " on said Survey. This field is locally called " Pocky, 

 knowe." 



Peter Tait informed us that the week previous — but on what 

 day he was uncertain — the ploughman who was preparing the 

 field for a turnip crop, told him he had come on a flagstone. He 

 went a day or two after to the field, and saw large stones, and 

 on lifting them found the cist, and saw bones in it, but he did 

 not disturb the place. He heard some boys had been at it, and 

 had taken a tooth away. (This tooth was subsequently re- 

 covered). The ploughman who came on the cist, had left the 

 district. 



