Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 73

A barbed point was recovered from the river bed. It had five pairs of barbs and had been well finished with stone tools.

The remains of an Iron Age site comprised a hearth between the footings for two small walls and a midden heap. Find included pottery sherds, a bone comb, animal bone, a large iron rivet, a flat piece of iron and bloomery cinder.

Report on the excavation of a rough circle of 10 stones one of which was carved. A causeway leading from the circle to an outlying slab was identified. It had cup and ring mark carvings. A stone cist within the circle contained burnt human bone and the remains were identified as an adult and a child aged six to eight years. Finds included pottery, charcoal (mainly hazel) and a flint flake.

Report on excavations in 1936 and 1937. The unusual rectangular form of the fort was dictated by the space available. Features examined included the rampart, ditch and intervallum and the east gateway. All the internal features (principia, praetorium, granaries, barracks, ovens) were examined and evidence was found to suggest that the fort had been deliberately dismantled. Artefacts included an unbroken sword from a foundation trench of the principia.

Further excavations of a group of Iron Age dwellings. The largest is a substantial stone-built circular structure identified as a 'potter's workshop' due to the large quantity of associated pottery and peat fires within. Three less substantial circular structures are located close by. The fourth stone-built structure is rectangular and thought to be of later date. The excavator identified two phases of occupation. Animal bone and worked stone were present.

A stone built cist containing a cinerary urn with the cremated remains of an adult was discovered at Outerston Hill, Midlothian. Pyre debris, including a burnt worked flint flake and large sherds of a smashed and burnt second pottery vessel were also present. A second stone cist at West Pinkerton, Broxburn, East Lothian contained two adult male skeletons and a Beaker vessel. The earlier skeleton had apparently been disturbed during the burial of the second. The method of manufacture of prehistoric vessels is discussed.

An earth-house discovered during plough comprised a passageway into a widened chamber with clay walls and a slabbed roof. A small quantity of pottery and a hammer stone were among the few artefacts.

The literary evidence provides some grounds for the argument that the terraces are probably not of later date than the late Middle Ages and had gone out of use by 1700 at the latest. A gazetteer of 136 sites is included.

A stone cist was discovered during ploughing. It comprised four side slabs with a cover slab and was orientated broadly west-east. The cist contained a Beaker vessel and the fragmented remains of a skeleton aged 3-5 years.

Description of a carved panel from Castle of Killochan near Girvan probably dating from 1530-1540. The Montrose panels are a group of eighteen believed to have come from the hall of a hospital founded in 1516.

The objects were discovered in peat moss on Stornoway. The armlets are bent and one of the finger-rings is broken.