L88 Shippath Dean. By Dr Charles Stuart. 



which is ligured and described in vol. x., p. 304, of the " Pro- 

 ceedings " of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for 1883. The 

 Wooden urn, however, appears to be more elaborately orna- 

 mented. 



[The Urn has been presented to the Society of Antiquaries of 

 (Scotland, by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. The engraving 

 is from a pen and ink drawing by Mr J. T. Dixon, from a photo- 

 graph by Mr G. A. Robinson, Hawick. Mr Greig, Wooden, also 

 • ommunicated an outline sketch, measurements of the urn, and 

 with an account of its discovery. The zig-zag lines in three 

 spaces are not so distinctly represented in the photo and drawing 

 as they are in the sketch. This is an urn, of the food-vessel 

 t;vpe, of very considerable size, and elaborately ornamented. 



J. H.] 



Shippath Dean, in Lammermoor. By Dr Charles Stuart, 

 Chirnside. 



Owing to inclement weather, the Club was deterred from 

 visiting this interesting locality, on the occasion of its meeting 

 at Cockburnspath in September last. As a short description of 

 the place may prove interesting to some of our members, and 

 may be the means of inducing them on some future occasion to 

 visit the region for . themselves, we offer the following notes, 

 from papers already written, the results of observations on the 

 spot, taken on two occasions. About the first or second week in 

 July is the best time to go ; and it was in that month that we 

 were there. The road from Cockburnspath is veiy hilly and 

 rough, and a sure footed horse desirable, as the bed of a stream 

 constitutes the only road for a certain distance ; which in a heavy 

 flood must make it a difficult place 'to get to at all. Passing 

 Koprig and Oldhamstocks, Stottingcleugh, where the road ter- 

 minates, is reached in little more than an hour's drive. Leaving 

 our conveyance here, the dean behind the house was ascended. 

 It is well wooded and steep. The Guelder Eose, Viburnum 

 opulus, was the only plant worth mentioning got here, and it 

 grows wild in most of the Lammermoor deans. Coming out at 

 the head of the ravine, we kept by a wire fence along some 

 cultivated fields, till we reached the heather, and held over the 

 moor in a north-west direction. A Meadow Pipit flew off her 



