Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 63

An account of a medallion made to commemorate the victory of Admiral Sir George Rodney over the French in a battle which took place in 1782 off the Isle of the Saints near Dominica in the West Indies.

Excavation of the cairn revealed a chamber containing disarticulated human bone, Neolithic and Beaker pottery, a stone axe and animal bone. A secondary cist contained a skeleton and two Beaker vessels. Investigation of mounds in the vicinity of a known Viking grave at Reay Links revealed four empty long cists and an unstratified bronze strap end of early medieval date.

A stone cist below a mound contained three individuals. The first two had been disarticulated when the third individual was interred. No artefacts were recovered. A report on the human bones is included.

A stone cist contained a crouched adult female skeleton accompanied by jet beads, a fragment of a bronze awl, an obsidian flake and some charcoal.

The kiln was discovered close to the ruined Cistercian convent. Debris within the chambers of the kiln contained broken tiles and wasters. Tiles of the type found do not occur elsewhere in Scotland. A discussion of floor tiles across Scotland is included.

The article considers the use of megaliths and large boulders as markers for boundaries and meeting places and the traditions surrounding them in the Loch Lomond area. An incised cross pillar at Suie is thought to be early Christian. In Alloway, the relationship of crosses at Cambusdoon and Blairston with Mungo's Well are considered. A short cist discovered at Ednam contained a crouched skeleton and a worked flint.

A description of thirteen newly discovered carved slabs from a variety of sites.

Five burials within one of the cairns were associated with jet beads and buttons, worked flints, pottery and charcoal. The second cairn covered a single burial with pottery and charcoal. Human bone in both cairns was very poorly preserved.

An architectural account of a fortified mansion which originated in the 16th century. Detailed plans of the original building and all its additions are included. The adjacent family vault is also described. AB

A substantial programme of excavation revealed an early Agricolan fort which was succeeded by one of Antonine date. The form of the Antonine fort is described in some detail. Mumrills was the site of one of the praesidia established on the\r\nline of the isthmus by Agricola in AD 80 or 81. The fortified enclosure, which was defended by a wooden palisade and a single ditch, was exceptionally large. The occupation, however, was a short one, covering perhaps not more than a single winter. In or about AD 142 Mumrills was selected as the site of what was, so far as is known, much the largest of the castella on the line of the Antonine Wall. Both then and in the Agricolan period, therefore, it may have been the station of the officer in general command of the frontier. The artefacts are reported on extensively.