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Scott. There is a faintly marked stop-ridge, above wliich the 

 blade has been ornamented by thickly set parallel hammer 

 or punch marks. The sides are fluted in a cable pattern. 

 Parallel to the cutting edge are three slight fluted hollows, 

 and on the blade above are segments of concentric hollows of 

 the same kind, forming, what heralds would call, "flanches," 

 in the blade. Sir John Evans's Bronze Implements, p. 59, 

 fig. 23. Figure from Proc. Soc. Ant., vol. xii., p. 601 ; also 

 repeated in Dr Anderson's Scotland in Pagan Times, p. 195. 



8. — In Corsbie Moss, Legerwood, a bronze Sword and 

 Spear Head were found, the former having, it was said, a 

 scabbard, apparently of metal, but so corroded as to fall to 

 pieces on removal. This may have been made of leather, 

 stained by the metal. Sir J. Evans's Bronze Implements, 

 p. 290, who refers to Proc. Soc. Ant., vol. iii., p. 121. The 

 Sword was perfect. 



9. — A bronze Sword was found on Edraersdean farm [now 

 united to Ecclaw] parish of Cockburnspath, before 1830, by 

 James Shiel, the farm manager there. It probably was sent 

 to the proprietor of the estate at Balgone. 



10.— The late Mr TurnbuU of Abbey St. Bathans told me, 

 at the Cranshaws Meeting of the Club, that he had obtained 

 from EUemford farm a bronze Javelin Head. 



11. — There were preserved at Penmanshiel, before 1830, 

 two bronze flanged Palstaves of the largest size, without central 

 stop, which had belonged to a deceased relative. It was not 

 known what they were, nor whence derived, but as he was 

 long engaged with the improvements on Northfield estate, 

 Coldingham, the probability is that they came from one of 

 the old camps in that neighbourhood. It is recorded that, in 

 1810-11, when Mr Brodie (afterwards residing near Ayton) 

 was farmer, a large cairn was demolished on the summit of 

 the Bell Hill, near St. Abbs, in which an Urn, measuring 

 about 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches high, similar 

 to those figured in the Club's Proc, vol. i., pp. 54-5, was 

 got, which subsequently came into Dr Johnston's possession. 

 Dr Johnston's date is 1820, but Mr Carr's statement (Hist. 

 of Coldingham, p. 10, note) as he resided near Mr Brodie, 

 is probably more correct. These bronzes, however, may have 

 belonged to an earlier period of agricultural overturn. It is 

 strange that, with so many old remains of British occupation 



