The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . elics is only a sad commentary on the miserable fruits resultingchiefly from the operation of the law of treasure-trove. A short wayto the east of Chesterlees Station, in the parish of Dolphinton, La-narkshire, an ornament of pure gold Avas found, which is said to haveresembled the snaffle-bit of a horses bridle.^ As tliis is usually atwisted iron rod, there can be little doubt that the Chesterlees relicwas a funicular tore. A gold chain ploughed up on the glebelands of Mortlach parish, Banffshire, and described in the Old Statis-tical Accou
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . elics is only a sad commentary on the miserable fruits resultingchiefly from the operation of the law of treasure-trove. A short wayto the east of Chesterlees Station, in the parish of Dolphinton, La-narkshire, an ornament of pure gold Avas found, which is said to haveresembled the snaffle-bit of a horses bridle.^ As tliis is usually atwisted iron rod, there can be little doubt that the Chesterlees relicwas a funicular tore. A gold chain ploughed up on the glebelands of Mortlach parish, Banffshire, and described in the Old Statis-tical Account of the parish, as like an ornament for the neck of one 1 The drawing is simply marked a gold ba\e been communicated to me by a lady collar found at Braidwood Castle, Edin- wlio bad often beard of this discovery in lior burgbshire, but there can be little doubt younger days, as one of the remarkable of its being the same referred to in the text. events of her native place. The additional particulars concerning it Now Statist. Ace. vol. vi. p. u .. PEUSONAL (iHNAiMKNTS. 319 of the chiefs; and anotlier golden chain found at Thrumstcr, inthe 2^iiiish of Wick, Caithness, wliicli in a year of famine the dis-coverer sold to a bailie in Wick for a boll of oatmeal, may both beassumed, with little hesitation, to have been golden tores. The term,indeed, has been used by experienced antiquaries. Gale descri1)es atore found near Old Verulam in 1748, as a wreathed or vermicularornament, being a solid chain of gold. One example, however, is onrecord of a gold linked chain found in an early Scottish sepulchraldeposit. Nearly a mile to the east of Newton of Tillicairn, Aberdeen-shire, on the top of a ridge on which are several cairns, there is one ofunusually large size, appropriately designated Cairnmore. In 1818this was partially opened to obtain a supply of stones for buildingmaterials, when a quantity of bones were found, among which lay asmall gold chain of four links, attached to a pin
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