Report of the Meetings for 1894. 43 



Francis Lynn, F S A. Scot., Galashiels; Charles Eae and Mrs 

 Eae, Cleithaugh, Jedburgh; G. Hardy, Oldcambus East Mains ; 

 James Hood, Linnhead ; G. Murray Wilson, Kilmeny, Hawick ; 

 Mr 0. 0. Murray, London, etc. 



The party was divided into two companies. The one walked 

 along the line of the cliffs to visit the Castle Dykes Camp. 

 It was found to be little more than a site, a vestige of military 

 occupation, and only exists now as a Place-Name. It was 

 entire between 40 and 50 years ago. More recently, in an 

 adjoining field, several long graves, with skeletons laid at 

 full length (some of them "head and tail") within, and 

 covered by slabs of sandstone, have been impinged upon by 

 deep cultivation. Two of the crania were submitted to 

 Professor Rolleston, who declared that they had belonged to 

 a Teutonic race. It was not unlikely an early Anglo-Saxon 

 cemetery of the Christian period, like the one on Springfield 

 farm, near Oldhamstocks. Castle Dykes is also the name 

 of the field between Dunglass Mill and Billsdean. 



Under the guidance of Mr James Hood, the other party 

 descended under the cliff of the Eamsheuch Bay. There, 

 conspicuous on a gravelly beach on the verge of the sea, 

 was a glorious display of the Horned Poppy, Glaucium luteum. 

 Careful searchers amongst the botanists could not find the 

 rare Carex extensa, though our zealous Secretary has since 

 obtained fresh specimens of it from this locality, which he 

 first recorded. Growing near were Sonchus asper (Hoffm), 

 Cardans tenuiflorus (Curt.), Arenaria peploides (L.), and Senecio 

 viscosus (L.) In a little marsh, a small distance off, were 

 quantities of Carex vulpina. Oenanthe crocata (L.) was also 

 observed near at hand. We clambered along the shore at 

 the base of a fine section of Calciferous Sandstone Rocks^ 

 which, along with the geology of the route, has been carefully 

 described by Mr Ralph Richardson, F.R.SE. Dr Hardy also 

 states that the geology of Dunglass Dean and of the coast 

 of Berwickshire, eastward to Siccar Point, with notices of its 

 fossils, has already been described by Mr George Tate, in 

 1853, Club's Proc, iii., pp. 131-136. The meeting of that 

 year was held at Cockburnspath, 18th June. He has left 

 fuller notices and sections of that part of the coast in his 

 MSS. The sandstones and the shales containing concretions of 

 clay-iron ore and limestones, noticed during the walk, are of 



