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having a central courtyard round which a passage ran giving 

 access to the rooms. Such buildings have been found in 

 many forts, though seldom has the plan been obtained more 

 completely than at Newstead. They have usually been 

 assigned as the quarters of the Commandant. Immediately 

 to the North of this lay a long buttressed building, which 

 no doubt formed one of the store-houses of the garrison. 

 At the South- West corner of this building part of a stone 

 pillar stood upright, and so near the surface that the ploughs 

 had left their track across it. With regard to the articles 

 found, there had been discoverd a quantity of ordinary rough 

 pottery, Samian ware, and large pieces with potters' marks 

 similar to those found in Antonine's Wall. They had also 

 found a circular brooch of pale blue enamel, with six round 

 spots of red enamel, which were very rare in Scotland, Camelon 

 being the only place where good specimens of them had 

 been obtained. With regard to coins, they got a number of 

 denarii of Nero, Vespasian, Domitian, Hadrian, Vitellius, 

 Antoninus Pius, and Crispina, and brass specimens of Faustina, 

 the Elder, and of Trajan. One fragment of stone with an 

 inscription upon it had been found, and also several iron, 

 implements. In concluding his remarks, Mr Curie stated 

 that they had found under the rampart the ditch of an 

 older camp, and in the bottom of the ditch they came upon 

 a typical Eoman stilus of bronze. 



On the motion of the President, who explained that on 

 account of the invitation being receive'd after the issue of 

 the ordinary notices of the meeting a smaller number had 

 been able to avail themselves of it than he could have 

 desired, Mr Curie was heartily thanked for the opportunity 

 granted the members to inspect the Fort, and for the 

 painstaking way in which he had sought to put them in 

 possession of the facts which the operations of the Society 

 of Antiquaries had brought to light. 



At 4-30 both sections of the excursion arrived at the 

 Eailway Hotel, where dinner was served, and 

 Club the usual toasts were proposed, Mr Wm. B. 



Dinner. Boyd, President, occupying the chair. Con- 



siderable interest was aroused through the 

 exhibition by Sir George Douglas of a silver-mounted Malacca 



