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At the extreme eastern part of the estate are the Thorlieshope Lime 

 Works and Fairloans Quarries (freestone), the former of which, near the 

 famous Deadwater Well, are still worked. The house of Thorlieshope and 

 the whole estate are now the property of Sir Robert Jardine, M.P., of 

 Castlemilk, Dumfriesshire. 



Thus far I am indebted to Mr Wilson. We next visited the house of 

 Mr Frank Turnbull, Mrs Johnston's chief shepherd, who is a collector of 

 coins, flint arrow heads, and antiques. Attention was directed chiefly to 

 what was local ; his extensive collection of modern coins was of considerable 

 money value, and in excellent preservation. There were several Edward I. 

 silver penuies, one of the Durham coinage ; a Henry VII. or VIII. silver 

 noble (?) ; some Queen Elizabeth shillings ; a Roman bronze (not local) ; 

 a shilling of Charles I., found in the shepherd's garden at Wormscleugh. 

 This last was of the milled sort, with the king's head, wearing a laced 

 band, and an inscription, CAROLVS. D. G. MA. BR. FR. ET. HI. REX. 

 On the reverse, an escutcheon of the arms divided by a cross, CHRISTO. 

 AVSPICE. REGNO. The value XII is behind the head. These show at 

 least that the people had money to lose. He had besides an iron sword of 

 modern shape, with iron handle, about a hundred years old, found on 

 Hudshouse Rig, supposed to be connected with the Highlanders of 1745, 

 who coming down by the Note-o'-the-Gate at starvation point, fell upon 

 the flocks, and one of them died by overgorgiug himself. According to 

 another version : they stole some sheep at Hudshouse " and boiled them 

 in an iron pot used for containing tar for buisting sheep. One of their 

 number died from the effects of the tar, and a sum of money was given to 

 Ringan Armstrong, the shepherd, for linen to bury him in. After the 

 army left, Ringan gave the body decent burial, and the place is still known 

 as the ' Hielandman's Grave.' " (Jeffrey's Roxburghshire, IV., p. 201). 

 He had given another sword to the late Mr Oliver of Laugraw. He had 

 an account of four flint arrow heads, two of which he still retains. These 

 are neatly chipped. The largest and finest was from a peat-hag on Cheviot, 

 with which none of Dr. Evans's figures in " Ancient Stone Implements of 

 Great Britain " correspond. The figure nearest to it, is Fig. 162 of L. 

 Jewitt's " Grave Mounds," which is from Derbyshire, and is notched near 

 the base, for tying to the shaft with a thong. The Cheviot flint however 

 has a rounded-out arched notch in the ceutre of the base, and its two ears 

 or lower barbs are rounded. It is 2g inches long ; |- inch across the base 

 at the ears ; and ~ at the notch ; it is f inch to the notch ; the remainder 

 is sub-lanceolate, as in Mr Jewitt's figure. He says it is not common in 

 England. The second flint is a small one, and was dug up in his garden in 

 front of his door. It is barbed unsymmetrically, with a stoutish stem, 

 something like Dr. Evans's Figs. 303 and 30-1, from the Yorkshire Wolds, 

 but neither exactly correspond with it. Its length is 1| inch ; length of 

 its stem f inch ; breadth of stem f inch ; breadth across the barbs f inch. 

 A third, presented to the Antiquarian Museum in Edinburgh, was found in 

 the syke behind the Saughtree Mission Church. The fourth from Thorlies- 

 hope, he had seen, and compared it to No. I., perhaps on account of its 

 size. None of these have any connection with the Battle of Degsastau. 



