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Spear-head found at Rutherford. By the President. 



(PLATE II.) 



The drawing represented on Plate II. was obligingly sent 

 to me by Mr Thomas Scott of Earlston. It very faithfully 

 portrays an ancient bronze Spear-head, which was found 

 by a man named John Hood, on a ploughed field near 

 Kutherford, about the middle of May 1899. 



The blade and socket measure about eight inches in 

 length, and, except for the corrosion at the edges, the 

 weapon is in a good state of preservation. 



An Ancient Apothecary's Mortar. By the Peesident. 

 (PLATE III.) 



The old bronze Mortar, for the drawing of which (given 

 on Plate III.) I am indebted to Mr Adam Laing of Hawick, 

 was presented to the Museum of the Hawick Archaeological 

 Society by the late Mr Anderson of Woodburn, in 1881. 

 It is a very substantial vessel, and measures about eight 

 inches in height, and one inch more in diameter at the top. 

 The inscription reads: "Gilbert Primros, Chirvrgien, 1569." 

 Gilbert Primros was a well-known physician in France, in 

 the middle of the 16th century, and an ancestor of the 

 present Earl of Eosebery. 



