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called the Bridge of Edincain — a name which almost exactly 

 coincides with the present one of Edinken's Bridge. lu the 

 course of the succeeding century, however, it is called, in the 

 parochial registers. King Edward'' s Bridge; and in the former 

 Statistical Eeport of the parish, it bears the name of Edirkens, 

 actually, however, Edirkin, which is there traced to that, not 

 of Edwin, but of Edward. Near this bridge there stood, some 

 years ago, four large stones, such as might be supposed to 

 indicate a burial-place of some distinguished person. These 

 were removed a considerable time ago; but last year (1835) 

 the place where they stood was identified from a subterranean 

 examination instituted at the spot. Besides a few small stones, 

 which were found at the depth of 4 feet — not enclosed, however, 

 in any kind of cofiin — a large urn was discovered, surrounded 

 with black ashes, and containing a quantity of bones, very 

 white and apparently burner!. Among them was a small 

 under-jaw, as if of a female or young person. The urn, when 

 found, was inverted, and its situation was quite shallow." 

 Then follow some more conjectures about the names Edwin 

 and Edward — p. 242. Several stone cofl&ns have been met 

 with in the parish. Two of these, enclosing a ring and part 

 of a sword, were found some years ago on the farm of 

 Skateraw. There has been preserved a pretty little vase, 

 found on another of the farms. The writer conjectured that 

 they were "probably the remains of bloody warfare" — p. 243. 

 The ring, etc., have been recently acquired, by purchase, by 

 the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, from a descendant of a 

 former tenant of Skateraw, which is spelled in a singular 

 manner to avoid the real name apparently. The real Skateraw 

 was a fishing station ; the houses, as usual, being built in a 

 row. Three standing stones are marked at Thornton Mains, 

 on the left hand of Oldhainstocks Road, a road leading to 

 within a short distance of Branxton. (Forrest's Map, 1799.)* 

 A bridge crosses the burn between it and Thornton. A 

 linn is to west of it. 



There had been more bridges than one here. The original 

 Edinken's bridge was, as reported, demolished by one of the 

 farmers, to stop a public footpath that crossed one of the 



* See fuller account of this Skateraw find, Club's Hist., Vol. xiv., 

 p. 396. 



