396 On some Pre-historic Antiquities. By Dr Hardy. 



vol. XI., p. 532, 1886. Dr Stuart's informant has not given 

 the measurements accurately. The date of discovery was 

 20th July 1886. 



4.— 1889-90. Purchased. Rapier Blade of bronze, lOf 

 inches in length, imperfect at the socket end, but showing 

 remains of 3 rivet holes ; found at Kilham, Bowmont Water 

 (Northumberland) in the Cheviots. Proc. Soc. Ant., 1889- 

 1890, p. 16. 



5. — 12th December 1892. Purchased. Bronze Dagger Blade 

 [no central rib] " 5f inches in length, fractured across the 

 middle, having two rivet holes with rivets, and two fractured 

 in the base of the blade and the gold mounting of the end 

 of the hilt ; found in a Cist in a Cairn at Sketraw [Skateraw 

 is the correct name] Dunbar." The following is the account 

 given of the discovery as it was taken down, in 1836, to the 

 dictation of Mrs Bowler, who preserved the articles. "They 

 were found in a field on the farm of Sketraw, which was 

 occupied from 1806 to 1814 by my brother-in-law, Mr H. 

 Lee, a noted agriculturist of his day. In this field there 

 was an immense cairn of stones, which, being removed for 

 agricultural purposes, there was found at the bottom of the 

 pile a large stone, measuring 9 feet in length, 5 feet in 

 width, and nearly 3 feet in thickness. Beneath it was a 

 grave ; the sides composed of 4 slabs neatly fitted together. 

 The bottom was of fine dust or earth, perfectly smooth, of a 

 brown colour, which, upon examination, was found to contain 

 some of the larger bones and part of the skull of a human 

 skeleton. Near the feet were pieces of a substance resembling 

 fragments of a blue glass bottle. On the right side lay the 

 ancient relic (the dagger blade) of a flat triangular shape, 

 which I preserved. On taking it up, the man broke it 

 through the middle, and the gold ring fell from it." Both 

 are figured. Proc. Soc. Ant., Scot., 1892, pp. 7-8. Skateraw 

 is a farm in East Lothian, in the parish of Innerwick. 



6. — A bronze Palstave or Axe from Windshiel, near Duns, 

 in the Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh, has the flanges 

 somewhat hammered over. Sir John Evans, Bronze 

 Implements, p. 98. 



7. — A bronze Celt, with but slightly raised flanges and 

 peculiar ornamentation, was found at Greenlees, near Spottis- 

 woode, Berwickshire, and is in the collection of Lady John 



