Report of Meeting.^ for 1 SOO. By Dr J. Hardy. 71 



We had not finished our search when rain began to fall, and 

 the mists assembling round the hill tops became denser and 

 blacker, and sent out flying detachments as if to envelop us, so 

 that we judged that the best expedient was to run through the 

 mustering storm ; and the carriages being brought round, under 

 a covering of umbrellas, waterproofs, and wrappers, we sustained 

 no material damage, coming out into sunshine before we reached 

 Hawick. We learned afterwai-ds that we had escaped by this 

 timely retreat from a violent thunderstorm accompanied by a 

 deluge of rain that crossed the hill country immediately to the 

 south of where we had been. The remainder of the day was 

 spent at Hawick in visiting the Nurseries or the Museum, and in 

 inspecting the buildings of this thriving town. For the anti- 

 quaries the object of most entertainment was the Museum. 

 There are several local antiquities here that would be the better 

 of being figured and described. I selected the collection of 

 Bronze objects that had been brought to the Museum by a 

 drainer from the precincts of Euberslaw, and these have been 

 drawn by Mr Guthrie for a Plate in some future Part of the 

 Club's Proceedings. They are thus described by Mr George F. 

 Black, in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- 

 land, 1887-88, p. 395. 



"Hoard of Bronze objects, found at Rnberslaw, Teviotdale, Roxburgh- 

 shire, consisting of five bottoms of Patellae, one of which is tinned on the 

 inside; one Handle; one Handle and portion of the Eim attached; frag- 

 ments of the sides of two or three vessels ; handle of a large vessel 

 ornamented with human figures in relief, the eyes of which are of silver." 



There is also a " vessel of thin bronze 8 inches in diameter by 4 inches 

 in depth, riveted and patched — found on Adderstone Moss." 



The dinner was in the Tower Hotel, the President, Major 

 General Sir William Grossman in the chair. There were also 

 present at this meeting: — The Eight Hon. Lord Napier and 

 Ettrick, K.T.; Capt. Eliott-Lockhart (of Cleghorn) Branxholnie 

 Tower ; Capt. AV. Macmillan Scott of Wauchope ; Ex-SheriflP 

 Russell, Edinburgh ; Mr Scott-Dudgeon, Longnewton ; Mr AVm. 

 B. Boyd of Faldonside ; Mr and Mrs G. Muirhead, Mains of 

 Haddo, Aberdeen ; Mr J. J. Yernon, F.S.A. Scot., Hawick ; 

 Major Thompson, Walworth Hall ; Mr Henry Eutherford of 

 Fairnington ; Sir George B. Douglas, Bart, of Springwood Park; 

 Capt. Forbes, E.N., Berwick; Rev. John Walker, Whalton 

 Eectory ; Rev. Ambrose Jones, Stannington ; Eev. P. Mhc- 

 Douall, Stoney Stratford ; Dr James Hardy, Secretary ; Mr J. 



