360 Discovery of Ancient Graves. 



being in the vicinity of Eutherford Boat, where there is a 

 public ferry. 



JOHN HARDIE, P.O. 



2. — Maker STOUN, Eoxburghshire. 



While the foresters here were engaged digging pits for 

 planting young trees in a plantation called the Limepots, 

 situated to the south-west of a quarry near Manorhill, they 

 came upon a large boulder stone partially buried in the 

 earth; which, when they had removed, they found it to 

 be a cover for a trapeziform stone coffin, in which lay the 

 remains of a human body. The head lay in the narrow 

 end towards the east, and the coffin was in an east and 

 west position. The dimensions of the cavity were — the 

 straight side, 2 feet 8 inches ; slanting side, 2 feet 5 inches ; 

 wide end, 19 inches; straight end, 13 inches; vertical 

 measurement, from end to end, 2 feet 9 J inches; depth, 15 

 inches : dimensions of cover — length, 2 feet 1 1 inches ; 

 narrow end, 15 inches; wide end, 2 feet 3 inches. The 

 wide end, where the feet laj', slanted outward, while that 

 of the narrow end slanted inward, and formed a sharp angle 

 wherein lay the head. All the bones, including the skull, 

 were very much decayed. Only parts of the latter were to 

 be seen, but the teeth were quite sound and white. A 

 similar discovery was made last October, in a field on the 

 farm of Dalcove Mains. — Kelso Mail, 19th February 1896. 



3. — Cist at Redcoll, near Longniddry, East Lothian. 

 By Edward J. Wilson, Abbey St. Bathans. 



" Last Saturday I was walking by Spittalrig, Trabroun, 

 Lenridge, and Redcoll to Longniddry. On the top of a 

 knoll (a protruding part of the whinstone dyke which runs 

 E. and W., midway between Eedcoll and Longniddry) I 

 found a stone coffiu slab. It was partly exposed at the 

 higher end, and the stones forming the sides and end seem 

 to be not so rude as I had elsewhere observed them. I 



