MONDAY, 11th December 1905.

LIEUT.-COL. A. B. M'HARDY, C.B., Vice-President, in the Chair.

A ballot having been taken,

Mr HUGH DONALDSON, Camelon, Falkirk

was duly elected a Fellow of the Society.

The following purchases acquired by the Purchase Committee for the Museum and Library during the year ending 30th November 1905 were exhibited ::

Finger-ring of copper, the body of the ring flat and strap-shaped, a small ivory knob and a black button, found in digging a foundation at Liberton.

Snuff-horn made of a ram's horn, 11 inches across the curve, with a hinged iron lid and iron mountings and chain, found under the hearthstone of an old house in Gallowgate, Aberdeen.

Whorl of sandstone, scored on both sides with one concentric ring and twelve radiating lines, found at Delvine, Perthshire.

Fancy Box of wood, 7 inches in length, 5 inches in breadth, and 17 inches in depth, the interior divided into three compartments, and having a small mirror fixed on the inside of the lid, the exterior overlaid with designs and pictorial representations of houses, etc., executed in coloured straw, made by French prisoners in Edinburgh Castle.

Teetotum, inlaid with wood of the Fortingall Yew.

Bronze Spearhead, 4 inches in length, with a flat loop on each side. of the socket, ploughed up at Cauldshiels, East Lothian.

Five leaf-shaped Arrow-heads of flint; one Arrow-head with barbs and stem; one small Fabricator, 14 inches in length; one double-edged Saw, 13 inches in length, the edges slightly concave; five Scrapers

and two Flakes-all found in one field at Easter Balgillo, Tannadice, Forfarshire.

Flanged Axe of bronze, 63 inches in length by 23 inches in breadth over the cutting edge, with pronounced flanges and stop-ridges, found in digging a foundation near the Convalescent Home at Corstorphine.

Flanged Axe of bronze, 5 inches in length and 2 inches across the cutting face, with pronounced flanges and stop-ridges; and slightly flanged Axe, 4 inches in length, with narrow upper part, expanding to an almost semicircular cutting edge, 2 inches in breadth-both found in Aberdeenshire.

Five bronze Axes, of palstave form, considerably corroded on the surface, being part of a hoard of seven found in the beginning of June

1905, on the farm of Caldonshill, in the parish of Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire. They were found all together about a foot below a hedge which was being removed from the front of the farmhouse. Mr Blair, the farmer, did not at first recognise the importance of the find, having never seen bronze axes, and they were left lying about till the beginning of July, when others happened to see them and they were dispersed. One found its way to the National Museum in July, the other four were recovered by the King's Remembrancer, and two have not been traced. Three of the five in the Museum are of the variety having a rather narrow upper part with slight flanges, a side-loop, and an expanding lower part, with a prominent swelling or mid-rib tapering towards the cutting face. They are nearly the same size, about 63 inches in length by 24 inches across the cutting face. Only one (fig. 1) retains the sideloop, which seems to have failed in the casting, as it remains unperforated. The fourth axe is of the same variety, but has been broken, and only the lower part remains. The fifth is smaller in size, being only 5 inches in length by 24 inches in breadth across the cutting face, and has no loop at the side, but prominent wings, a well-developed stopridge, and no mid-rib.

Carved Panel of oak (fig. 2), 1 foot 11 inches in height by 10 inches in breadth, having in the upper part a figure of a horseman, bearded and looking backwards, and underneath two grotesque figures, and a female figure, nude, and holding in one hand a club upraised, and with the other grasping what seems to be the tail of a serpent. The panel is said to have been taken from the parish church when it was pulled down in 1811. It passed into the possession of the Fifeshire Antiquarian Society, from whom it has now been acquired for the National Museum through the good offices of Rev. James Campbell, D.D., F.S.A. Scot., Minister of Balmerino. The Society is also indebted to Rev. Dr Campbell for the use of the block from his Balmerino and its Abbey : A Parish History (new edition), 1899, published by W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh. The panel is supposed to have come originally either from the Abbey of Balmerino, or from its chapel of St Ayle.

Nine Communion Tokens, including Liberton, with the figure of the old church on reverse; Peterculter, 1787; Rothiemay (no date); Dunse, 1771; Carnwath, 1807; Kingussie, 1802; and three others.

Crown Half-Groat of James II., Aberdeen Mint-an unpublished example. It was found in the bank of the Burn of Balnaguard, in the parish of Grantully, by a man fishing there, and brought to the notice of the Society by Rev. John M'Lean, Grantully, F.S.A. Scot.

Index to the four volumes of General Pitt-Rivers's Excavations in Wiltshire, etc., 4to, 1905; The Burgh Records of Glasgow, vol. iii. Rymer's Fœdera, Conventiones, etc. (London, 1727), 20 vols., folio; Dechelette's Vases Céramique de la Gaule Romaine, 2 vols.; Mortimer's Forty Years' Researches in the Burial Mounds of Yorkshire, 4to, 1905; Hampel's Alterthumer des fruhen Mittelalters in Ungarn, 3 vols., 4to, 1905.

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