of Edinburgh, Session 1882-83. 
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Yl.— NOTES ON FLINT NODULES FOUND ON RAISED SEA- 
BEACHES AND DRIFT GRAVEL IN WIGTOWNSHIRE. BY 
REV. GEORGE WILSON, COR. MEM. S.A. SCOT. 
Mr Milne Home asks me (January 1883) for an extract on 
this subject from an article by me (in vol. i. of the Collections of 
the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire ArchcBological Association), on the 
Ancient Stone Implements of Wigtownshire, and to give some addi- 
tional notes. The passage occurs at page 4. 
“ The Glenluce implements of flint and other kinds of stone, and 
of bronze, were first described in 1876, in my notes of some of the 
articles then presented by me to the Museum of Antiquities in 
Edinburgh {Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. xi. pp. 580-587). The 
Glenluce flints, &c., are chiefly found on or near certain old sea- 
beaches at the north shore of the Bay of Luce. These are about 
20 feet above the sea-level, and run from north-east to south-west, 
in parallel storm-beaches, from a point near Park Hay, in Glenluce, 
to a point near Sandhead, in Stoneykirk, a distance of about six 
miles. These beaches are in most places covered by sand hills, 
called the Torrs. They contain rnsraj wcder-worn nodules of flint. 
How did these flints get there? In the paper referred to, I 
hazarded the opinion that they are ‘the relics of a (vanished) 
Scottish deposit of chalk : ’ but geologists demurred to this, and 
were inclined to think they had been imported as articles of 
commerce. One correspondent, who is an eminent geologist, thought 
they had been brought in coracles from the north of Ireland, where 
flint is plentiful. I am now able to state that they have been 
deposited by natural agency, for I have found them in the stratified 
gravel, in a large excavation at Dunragit railway station, and in a 
gravel pit at Genoch, which is near some of the old beaches where 
I have found flints, both wrought and unwrought. It is for geolo- 
gists to discuss whether they have drifted from the north of Ireland 
of an ancient river, in which he detected “pieces of red sandstone ‘of Cambrian 
derivation’ — which make it clear that the higher grounds from wdiich they 
were borne could not have lain to the S. or E,, but to the N. W. or North." 
From fragments of vhite sandstone (also found by him), he says, “We may with 
some probability infer, that the course of the stream (which brought them 
came from the north, where the great white oolite sandstones rise to the sur 
face.” — Lond. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii. p. 309. 
