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apparently as a Whetstone ; small piece of rough British 

 pottery ; several pieces of pottery, including one of very fine red 

 clay, glazed on inside, and resembling Saniian ware ; — these were 

 found very recently by Mr W. Steele, Melrose. Small polished 

 axe (Celt) of mottled greenish stone (felsite), found recently in 

 taking down an old house at Gattonside. Its dimensions are, 

 length, 2f ins. ; breadth, across the cutting edges, nearly 2 ins., 

 tapering to about \\ ins. at the butt end. Its greatest thickness 

 is nearly ^ in. Perforated axe of granite from Craigend, Gala- 

 water. Its dimensions are, length, 5^ ins. ; greatest breadth, 

 2f ins. It is \h in. thick at the butt end, which has a rounded 

 form. A portion appears to have been taken off the other end, 

 the cutting edge being now represented by an oblique fractured 

 surface. The perforation is at right angles to the cutting edge, 

 and is 1^ inch at the outside, narrowing to g inch at the centre. 

 The surface is much corruded, and resembles that of a weathered 

 granite boulder. Good specimen of the old Scotch iron cruzie, 

 on three-legged staud. [This is to be figured.] Old iron horse 

 shoe from the battlefield of Philiphaugh. Two iron Cannon 

 Balls and a Stone Whorl, found on the farm of Housebyres 

 (Alwyn Water), near Melrose ; several Stone Balls of various 

 sizes found in the neighbourhood. Two old Horn Cutty Spoons 

 made from Goats' Horns ; a quantity of Fairy Stones got from 

 Mr Geo. Bruce, the tenant of the farm of Langlee, on which the 

 Fairy Dean is situated. 



Hawick for the Slitrig and Robert's Linx. 

 August 27th. — The weather had hitherto favoured the meet- 

 ings, but at Hawick the Club encountered a lowering sky, 

 which at length pOured out a copious downfall of rain. Taking 

 the day by the forelock, by an early start, the Club reached its 

 destination. Except at the opening portion of the drive and in 

 the finely wooded environs of Stobs Castle, the route of the hill- 

 environed Slitrig is a bare one, but being new, and terminating 

 among an amphitheatre of singularly shaped, and ever and anon 

 appearing and disappearing, dark hued hills, it had elements in 

 it of the wonder one feels in rough untrodden wildernesses ; and 

 several of the places skirted had a history ; the hills were many 

 of them crowned with old British forts ; some of these had been 

 Border Watches: — 



