l50 Collections of Pre-histoHo Antiquities. 



water- worn pebbles, found at Clackmae, Earlston. (10) 

 Hammerstofies of quartzite and other hard stones, one from 

 Sorrowlessfield Mains, Earlston ; one from Cowdenknowes, 

 Earlston ; one from Brotherstone, Merton ; one from Brew- 

 house, Lauder; one from Spottiswood, Gordon. 



Bronze. — On the farm of Essenside, Ashkirk, a number of 

 bronze implements have been found, two of which, a gouge 

 and socketed axe, were sent for exhibition. The gouge is of 

 the usual socketed form, SvV inches in length, and f inch in 

 outer diameter across the mouth. The gouge end is slightly 

 expanded, and the sides show the marks of junction of the 

 two halves of the mould. The axe is of ordinary form, 3^ 

 inches in length and 2 inches across the cutting end. The 

 mouth is flattish circular in form, and is ornamented with a 

 raised moulding round the edge. The sides show the marks 

 of the junction of the two halves of the mould.* 



Flanged axe, 3|^ inches in length by 1^ inch across the 

 cutting end, which scarcely expands, with stopridge, found 

 in ploughing heather two miles above Longcroft. 



Ingot of dark coloured bronze in the form of a rude flat 

 axe, 2^ inches in length by 1^ inch across the broadest end, 

 found at Hillhouse, Lauder, in 1893. 



Penannular ring or armlet of bronze, 2^ inches in greatest 

 diameter, found at Essenside, Ashkirk. It is exactly similar 

 to, though not so thick as, that found at Killin, Perthshire.f 



Bronze cheek-ring of bridle-bit of early Iron Age date, 2^ 

 inches in diameter, found at Bowerhouse, Lauder. Mr Scott 

 states that there were a number of other objects found with 

 this ring, but that all the articles had been destroyed. 



Two small yellow beads of glass, coloured with oxide of 

 iron, one found at Lauder and the other at Philiphaugh, 

 Selkirkshire, are identical with a number in the Museum, 

 found on the Oulbin Sands, Elginshire. 



* In the Proceedings Berwickshire Naturalists' Clnb, Vol. X£., 1895-96, 

 p. 492, two additional socketed axes, found on the same farm, are 

 figured and described. 



f Scotland in Pagan Times : Bronze and Stone Ages, p. 152 ; Proc. 

 Sac. Ant. Scot., Vol. xvi., p. 29. 



