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outside covered with lozenge or rather fusil pattern. No. 3, 

 small urn is entire, 2£ inches across, cup-shaped, with crescent 

 or finger nail indentations. All these were in the East Cairnfold 

 field, Lilburn Hill farm. The three urns are of the most primi- 

 tive description, the clay material of the urns having been most 

 imperfectly burned with wood or peat. The fragments and the 

 bones which they contained are in the possession of Mr George 

 Tait, the tenant." 



There is a large inscribed stone — a sandstone from Lilburn — 

 preserved in the British Museum, to which Mr Eobert Blair, 

 F.S.A., directed nry attention, of which a figure has been ob- 

 tained from the pencil of Mr C. H. Read, F.S.A., and now 

 engraved for the first time — Fig. 3. The figure has contained 

 two more circles or broken circles than Fig. 1, but is similar in 

 character. Compare also with Mr Tate's plate Y., Fig. 4. 

 (Club's Hist., vol. V.) from Gledlaw. 



In regard to this, Mr Moffatt writes: " One cist, about 18 years 

 ago, with inscribed 

 stones, and con- 

 taining a few 

 bones, was turned 

 up upon Lilburn 

 South Stead farm. 

 The inscribed 

 stone in the Bri- 

 tish Museum is 

 probably the large 

 stone from this 

 cist." 



Mr Moffatt con- 

 tinues : " There 

 are three well de- 

 fined Tumuli upon 

 Lilburn Estate ; 

 No. 1. (a large 

 oblong) in the 

 South Bank plan- 

 tation adjoining Lilburn Grange Haugh : No. 2 (a large medium 

 oblong) in the middle of the Moorfoot plantation, which has been 

 planted over this spring ; and No. 3 (dome-shaped) in North 

 Ponders-field, Lilburn Grange farm." 

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Fig. 8. 



