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Midside Maggie's Girdle. By Robert Romanes, Esq., 

 F.S.A. Scot., Harryburn. (Plate VI.) 



[Illustrations by permission from Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. "Circular 



Plate," Vol. X., p. 321; Plate XII., Fig. 1; "Hall's Marks," 



Vol. xxui., p. 445.] 



It will interest the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, to 

 have it recorded in its Proceedings, that this old and 

 interesting relic of the Hall Marks and Circular Plate — of 

 which the above are illustrations — has found a permanent 

 resting place in the National Museum of Antiquities for 

 Scotland. 



The Girdle, which was first exhibited to the Club at a 

 meeting held at Lauder, on 24th June 1869, was very fully 

 and accurately described by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., of 

 Wolfelee, in the Address delivered by him to the Club at 

 Berwick, on 30th September 1869 ; was recorded in the 

 Club's Proceedings of that year ; and at the same time Sir 



