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grave have been recovered, but they are in a fragmentary 

 condition. The cranium has been of considerable size, and 

 very thick in the substance, ^ inch in most of the fractures. 

 There are five strong, well-sized teeth left in a portion of 

 the jaw, all healthy, two of them molars ; except one, all 

 much worn down on the surface, indicating a farinaceous 

 food, and a person advanced in life. The long straight 

 portions of leg bones (none of them entire) remaining, 

 indicate a tall man. The bones will be sent to an expert. 

 The covering on the top of the Cist was composed of two 

 parallel slabs, 5 feet long and 7 inches each X 1 foot 2 

 iuclies across. 



IV. — List of some Berwickshike and Boudeu Bkonzk 

 Implements. 



To FAVOUR the prosecution of furtlu-r inquiries, I have 

 gathered, chiefly from the Proceediuj^s of the Scottish Society 

 of Antiquaries, a detailed list, with references, of the Bronze 

 Im[)lements and Weapons, hitherto recorded from Berwickshire 

 (two excepted, but still within the field of the Club's 

 investigations), and omitting Bronze Caldrons. 



1. — 14th June 1886. Purchased. Bronze rapier-shaped 

 Blade, 11^ inches in lenjjth, by 1 inch in greatest breadth 

 at the base of the blade, which, tlnoughout the greatest 

 part of its lon;^th. does not exceed f inch in breadth; found 

 at Milne-Graden. Proc. Soc Ant., vol. ii., p 302, 1885-6. 



2.— 5th June 1887. Purchased. Flat ("e\t or Axe Head of 

 Bronze, 6^ inches in length, by 3f inches across the cutting 

 face; from Berwickshire. Proc. Soc. Ant, 1886-7, ]>. 2S7. 



3. — 1888-1890. Purchased. Ferrule of bronze for a spear 

 shaft, which is thus described as " 7f inches in length, by 

 1 inch across the mouth or open end, with a rivet hole at 

 a distance of H inch below the openiiig. This Ferrule was 

 found at Leetside, in the parish of Whitsotne, Berwickshire, 

 and is the second example of its kind known to have been 

 found in Scotland. A few have been found in England and 

 elsewhere." Proc. Soc. Ant., 1889-1890, p. 16. 



This is the same bronze implement of wliicli a more full 

 account, accompanied by figure, is given in the Club's Proc, 



