398 Dagger and Buckle found on Fame Island. 



thereabouts, so few distinctive examples of the weapons or 

 implements of the aborigines should have been preserved. 

 Two belonging to the Stone Age, found on Lumsdean farm, 

 are figured and described in the Proceedings, vol. viii., see 

 p. 162, Plate I., fig. 4, now in Berwick Museum; and p. 

 547, Plate X., fig. 2, now in Lady John Scott's collection 

 at Spottiswoode. 



On a Dagr/er and Buckle found luith a Skeleton on the 

 Inner Fame Island. By Ralph G. Huggup, Gloster 

 Hill. (Plate XII.) 



[On a visit I paid to Gloster Hill, ISth August 1893, Mr 

 Huggup showed me. among his interesting collection of 

 curiosities, an iron Dagger with a brass or bronze BucIcIp, 

 which, I thouarht, ought to be recorded. At my request, 

 he made a sketch of the objects, and has furnished the 

 following particulars about their discovery. J.H.] 



Gloster Hill, 



24tli November 1894. 

 My dear Dr Hardy, 



I hope I may be able to ^ive you some information 

 about the Dagger aud Buckle, of wbich I made a sketch for you ; 

 but I never heard much about them except from my father, in whose 

 possession they were when I first saw them. 



On referring to the Admiralty list of Lighthouses of the British 

 Islands, in my library, I find that the light on the Inner Fame Island 

 was first exhibited in 1776, and the smaller one was added in 1816. 

 This statement, I think, must be inaccurate, except that it may refer 

 to a grating with a fire of coals, which was lighted nightly here, and 

 I have heard old Robin Patterson of North Sunderland talk about 

 taking coals to the island in his boat ; but I think the present 

 lighthouses were bailt between 1835 and 1850, when it would be 

 necessary to have a good road in order to cart the stones from the 

 only landing place on the island, situated on its eastern side, up to 

 the building on the western clifE. In making or improvinsr this road, 

 several skeletons were found, which, according to the story I heard, 

 each measured about seven feet in length ; and on the — what T 

 suppose an Anatomist would call the "Lumbar Vertebra" — of one of 

 them lay the articles in my possession. The idea of the finders 

 seems to be probable, viz. that the poor beggar had been planted "all 

 standing," having on a belt clasped with the bronze Buckle and with 



