. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. ance of the kind wasevidently requisite ere thegrain furnished by the boun-tiful Creator could, to any ex-tent, be converted into food. One of them would therefore befound in every household. The people were attached to theiruse, and, after the introduction of water-mills, were decidedlyaverse to give them up. The Government, who wished toencourage the water-mills, therefore, in 1284, during thereign of Alexander III., passed the following enactment :— That na man sail presume to
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. ance of the kind wasevidently requisite ere thegrain furnished by the boun-tiful Creator could, to any ex-tent, be converted into food. One of them would therefore befound in every household. The people were attached to theiruse, and, after the introduction of water-mills, were decidedlyaverse to give them up. The Government, who wished toencourage the water-mills, therefore, in 1284, during thereign of Alexander III., passed the following enactment :— That na man sail presume to grind quheit, maislhock, or rye,with hand mylnes, except he be compelled be storm, or belack of mylnes, quhilk sould grind the samen. And in thiscase, gif a man grinds at hand mylnes, he sail gif the thretteinmeasure as multer; and gif anie man contraveins this our pro-hibition, he sail tine his hand mylnes perpetuallie. This lawfailed to some extent to effect the end contemplated, and insome remote districts of Scotland the querns continued in usealmost to our own times. At nearly all the old farm towns in. PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN THE BIGGAR DISTRICT. 7 the Biggar district, these primitive and once useful utensils werelately to be found very generally built into the wall of some ofthe office-houses. Those of most recent date were hollowedout like a trough, and the corn, or rather the barley, wasplaced inside and bruised by a stone, or sometimes by a pieceof wood called a knocker, and hence these utensils were usu-ally denominated knocking stones. Another article that must he ascribed to a very remote an-tiquity is the ornamented stone ball It is found in variousparts of Scotland. Four or five very fine specimens are to beseen in the Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland at Edin-burgh. One of them, found at the Roman road near Carlisle,was presented to the Museum by the late James Brown, Esq.,Edmonston, Biggar. They are all nearly alike in size, butthey differ very much in th
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