154 Collections of Pre-historic Antiquities. 



water-worn pebble of quartzite, 2f incbes in length, with a 

 perforation, f inch in diameter, pecked from each face, found 

 at Prieston, Bowden. 



Miscellaneous Stone Implements. — ( I ) An egg-shaped pebble of 

 basalt, 2| inches in length by 2f inches in diameter, " one 

 of a lot of the same kind found at Marlefield." (2) Mould 

 of sandstone, l^ by 1^ inches, for casting small objects of a 

 circular form, found at Billerwell. (3) Two whetstones of 

 micaceous stone found at Bemersyde Camp, St. Boswells, and 

 one found at Cessford. (4) Triangular block of reddish 

 sandstone, with coarsely pecked hollow on one face. If inch 

 in diameter and f inch in depth, found at Cessford. (5) 

 Anvil-stone of reddish-grey quartzite, 3f inches by 3^ and If 

 inch thick, finely smoothed, with smooth depression on each 

 face and the periphery showing marks of abrasion, found at 

 Old Melrose. (6) Pebble of greenstone, 3f inches by 3 inches, 

 with hollow on each face, found at Donholm. (7) Irregularly 

 shaped block of gneiss, 3f by 3 by 2^ inches, with a hollow 

 depression on each of two adjoining sides, found at Oxnam. 

 (8) Oblong oval pebble of greenstone, 6 inches by 4^ inches, 

 with one of the broad faces converted into an oblong cup-shaped 

 hollow, found near Jedburgh. (9) Two hammerstones of 

 reddish quartz, one disc-shaped, 3| inches in diameter, with 

 slight depression on each face and the periphery showing marks 

 of abrasion ; the second, oval-shaped, 4^ inches in length, with 

 depression on each face ; both found at Smailholm. ( 1 0) 

 Hammerstone of greenstone, 4^ by 3|- inches, irregularly 

 shaped, with pecked liollow on each face and the periphery 

 much abraded, found at Bemersyde, St. Boswells. (11) 

 Hammerstones, principally of quartzite and spherical in form, 

 two from Wester Wooden, two from Cessford, two from Kitty- 

 field, Melrose, two from Bemersyde Camp, St. Boswells. (12) 

 An oblong plano-convex shaped implement of diorite, Gf inches 

 in length by 3^ inches in breadth, with edge at each end, and 

 a perforation formed from each side through the broad face, 

 found in a wall between Ormiston and Roxburgh. 



Whorls. — The whorls found in Eoxburghshire number nine 

 in all, and are all of ordinary forms, mostly unornamented. 

 One was found at Eennieston, one at Bedrule, one at Samieston, 

 Jedburgh, one near Kelso, four at Denholm, and one at Cessford. 



