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Perforated Hammer. — A perforated hammer of gneiss, imperfect 

 at one end on one side, and with the haft hole bored through 

 the broad face, polished, found in Rule Water, at Bonchester 

 Bridge, Hawick. 



Whetstones. — Fig. 7 represents an unusually large and fine 

 specimen of an implement of this class. The original is of 

 dark coloured quartz, 5| inches in length by i^- inch in breadth 

 on each side at the middle, and was found at Oxnam. In the 

 Arbuthnot Museum, Peterhead, is one 5^ inches in length by 

 I an inch in breadth, which was found at Abbey of Deer, 

 Buchan.* (2) Of silicious sandstone, 3 inches in 

 length, with perforation at one end for suspension, 

 found at Denholm. (3) Imperfect, of soft steatitic 

 itone, found near the Roman road at Cappuck. (4) 

 Of fine sandstone, 9f inches in length by If inch 

 in breadth, and l^ inch thick, finely formed and 

 perfect, and showing no signs of use, with perfora- 

 tion at one end, found near Maidenhall. 



Stone Ball. — A portion of a small ball of gneiss, 

 l^ inches in diameter, with the surface cut into 

 imall projecting knobs, was found in the present 

 ^ear at Kirkton, Hawick. This is the first recorded 

 example of one of these enigmatical objects having 

 been found ia any of the south-eastern counties. 

 There is in the National Museum a specimen with 

 lix discs, said to have been found in Dumfriesshire, 

 md the half of another found in Wigtownshire. In 

 the Grierson Museum at Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, 

 is a fine specimen of white quartz, which was found 

 in Cree Moss, Wigtownshire.! These are the only 

 specimens recorded as having been found in the 

 south counties. 



Perforated Pebbles. — (1) Disc-shaped, of sandstone, 4^ inches 

 in diameter, with roughly circular perforation pecked from each 

 face, found at Denholm. (2) Of sandstone, roughly circular, 

 3^ inches in diameter, with a perforation, ^ inch in diameter, 

 pecked from each face, found at Rennieston. (3) Flattish 

 water-worn sandstone pebble, irregularly circular in outline, 

 3 inches in diameter, found at Smailholm. (4) Oval-shaped 

 * Ihid., Vol. XXII., p. 336. 



t Catalogue of the Grierson Museum, 1894, p. 74. 

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Fig. 7. 



Whetstone 



found at 



Oxnam (i.) 



