The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . easuring 3iinches in diameter, were discovered about two years later on the sameisland, and added to the Scottish Museum. Another, four inches indiameter, flat on the inside, and rounded without, as is most frequentlythe case, was obtained from a tumulus in the parish of Logie, Forfar-shire, along with an urn full of ashes, and the remains of four skele-tons.^ In 1832, some labourers levelling a sandy field at Dubbs, inthe parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, came upon a paved area five feetunder the surface, measuring six yards long and two broa
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . easuring 3iinches in diameter, were discovered about two years later on the sameisland, and added to the Scottish Museum. Another, four inches indiameter, flat on the inside, and rounded without, as is most frequentlythe case, was obtained from a tumulus in the parish of Logie, Forfar-shire, along with an urn full of ashes, and the remains of four skele-tons.^ In 1832, some labourers levelling a sandy field at Dubbs, inthe parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, came upon a paved area five feetunder the surface, measuring six yards long and two broad. Acrossthe one end lay a stone of about a ton weight, and at the otherthere was found a stone cist, measuring three feet in length by twoin breadth. Within it were two urns, one of gray and the other ofblack pottery, both apparently filled only with earth, and besidethem lay five studs or buttons of difterent sizes, formed of highly > Kiiilui-jrlon ami Kilbride, p. 21 7, = ^ Statistical Ac-count, vol. ix. and Plate i. p. • 1>HI!S()\AL (HINAMHNTS. 301 polished jet. The ui-ns were broken, but the studs were preservedby tlie late Colonel Hamilton. They are convex on the one side,and concave on the other, with knobs left in the latter, seemingly forattaching- them to the dress. The largest is more than an inch Two other rings of polished shale, similar to thosealready described, were discovered in 1786, lying beside a skeleton,on removing a large flat stone within the area of one of those circulartowers in Caithness, commonly termed burghs, or Pictish them lay a bone pin, and two fine oval brooches, (the Skaal-formet Spande of Danish antiquaries,) such as have been frequentlydiscovered in the NortJiern and Western Isles, and are now generallyascribed to the era of the Vikings. Such examples, it is obvious, might be greatly multiplied, butenough have been cited to enable us to trace the use of those orna-ments from probably the
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