diadaly incurred. Lagitud nally, the ends alky and mother the ele being in a plane at right angles to the city the who much weathered. It measures 61 mchos in longch by mehe m W-4eh, and closely resembles in form and character the tie mplement et polished flint from Forny Brae, Slains, Alonloonshine, Bound in the Proceelings, vol. x. p. 598, and also the adeo ho implement from th Barras, Drumlithie, Kincardineshire, figured in vol vill pT1

of this form are rare in Scotland, those being the only pamphor bacRN Five Arrow-heads of flint.

Small Saw of flint formed from a flat flake, 14 inches in Inoth

Scraper with tang, 2 inches in length by & inch in the Fores

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contemplated to deal first with the strongly fortified Stations,' where it is to be presumed that the occupation by the Romans was of greater duration than in the Camps' with a comparatively weak fortification. Our choice of Camelon was decided by information from Mr MacLuckie, a Fellow of the Society, that one-half of the Station had been feued for the erection of new foundries, and that the work had already been begun on the ground. This was in last spring, and we immediately applied to Mr Forbes of Callendar, the proprietor, and to the farm tenant for leave to excavate, which was readily granted by both. The work, now drawing to a close, has been steadily carried on for about six months under the general superintendence of Mr Thomas Ross, and we have been singularly fortunate in having the regular and voluntary services of Mr M. Buchanan, Falkirk, a trained draughtsman and surveyor, who has planned everything week by week as the work progressed. We have also been much indebted to Mr MacLuckie for general advice in conducting our negotiations and operations. We were fortunate also in securing the services of Mr Alexander Mackie as Clerk of Works, who had already had considerable experience in conducting excavations for us at Abernethy Fort and at Birrenswark.

The Station at Camelon resembles Birrens in consisting of two rectangles in apposition, and we were only able to excavate a portion of the southern one, as the construction of the new foundries went on rapidly during our work, but the northern one, which has not yet been feued for building, has been sufficiently excavated to yield as perfect a plan of the Station as we got either at Birrens or at Ardoch. The finds, also, were fully as interesting as those found in our former excavations, except that we found no inscriptions to throw light on the date of the place, as we did at Birrens. I will not anticipate further the full description of the excavations, which in the course of the session will be communicated to the Society.

Although this was the only work of the kind undertaken by the Society last year, the results of several other important excavations were Ind before it during the session.

One of these, on the farm of Hyndford near Lanark, was undertaken by Mr Andrew Smith, who has since become a Fellow of our Society. The site is in a marshy hollow, which becomes quite a lake in a rainy season, and the remains could only be dealt with successfully in summer, when dry weather prevailed. As was expected, the place proved to be at crannog, and a large number of very interesting relics were discovered, which were exhibited when the paper by Dr Munro describing the excavations was read. The occurrence of a considerable number of articles, which are characteristic of Roman sites, was specially remarkable, and was a warning to antiquarian excavators not to found too hastily upon finds alone as proof of the origin of ancient remains.

The results of the other excavation, at Dumbuck, on the bank of the Clyde near Dumbarton, were partially communicated by Mr John Bruce, who in conjunction with another Fellow of the Society, the late Mr Adam Millar, and Mr Donelly, the discoverer of the remains, undertook the excavation on behalf of the Helensburgh Antiquarian Society. The work was mainly done by their own hands, notwithstanding its arduous nature, owing to the site being only exposed for a few hours at low tide. As it was not quite completed, however, and as the boxes containing the finds had been miscarried by the railway on the evening when Mr Bruce read his paper, he has kindly consented to recast it for the present session, when it will be read and the whole of the finds exhibited. Some of these, as you are probably aware, are of a peculiar kind, and have given rise to controversy, their genuineness having been strenuously denied. But whatever may be thought of them, they will be brought before the Society by Mr Bruce in a manner, I believe, to which no exception can be taken.

Excellent work has also been done by the Marquis of Bute, formerly Vice-President of our Society, in excavating the foundations or repairing the fabric of mediæval buildings in various parts of Scotland, and in excavating the site of the ancient ecclesiastical settlement at St Blane's, Bute.

Useful excavations have also been carried out by Sir Francis Tress

Barry, an Honorary Fellow of the Society, at Keiss, Caithness, The results have been witnessed from year to year by Dr Joseph Anderson, who will communicate them to the Society in the present session.

It is not often that the Society can be congratulated on the receipt of a legacy. Last year, however, at the annual meeting, the Council had the satisfaction of announcing that a former much-esteemed Fellow of the Society, the Hon. Mr Bouverie Primrose, had bequeathed to us unconditionally the sum of £150. This sum the Council have disposed of by adding it to the Rhind Legacy Fund for Excavation, having been induced to do so by the increasing importance attached to this mode of promoting the study of archæology in our own country. It has been resolved to use the interest only of the Rhind-Primrose Fund in defraying the expense of excavations, and as this amounts to little more than £13, it can suffice for but very limited undertakings. It is to be hoped, however, that the Fund may prove the nucleus to which additions may be made by legacies or gifts from other patriotic archaeologists.

The Council, in carrying out their scheme for the excavation of Roman sites in Scotland, have been obliged to draw considerably upon the Capital Fund of the Society. But expenditure from this source cannot be prudently carried much further, and unless the Excavation Fund can be considerably supplemented, large undertakings of this kind must be given up. This would be a misfortune, not only from the archæological point of view, but for the interests of our Society. In these days, when scientific or quasi-scientific societies are so numerous, and the competition for members is so great, we can only continue to maintain interest in our work by reason of its high character, and one of the most effectual means of doing this is by the systematic prosecution of excavation, a kind of research which lies so peculiarly in the domain of archæology, and which it is not advisable that private persons who are not experts should undertake,

We have reason to believe, indeed, that our excavations have led to considerable additions to our Fellowship, and thus the expenditure has

not been unproductive from the financial point of view. I need hardly remind you of another gain, in the addition to the National Museum of many articles, some of them of great money value.

The Rhind Lectureship, for the endowment of which the Society is indebted to a former Fellow, Mr A. H. Rhind of Sibster, has supplied an annual series of lectures, open to the public as well as to the Fellows, for twenty-two years. During that time many different aspects of archæology and ethnology (chiefly in their relations to Scotland) have been presented, and perhaps there has been none more interesting or more likely to be generally appreciated than the course for the current year to be delivered by Mr Thomas Ross on Architecture in Scotland. I need hardly remind you of the admirable course on Heraldry of last year by the Lyon King-of-Arms.

We owe to the generosity of a distinguished Fellow, still living, another Fund, the Gunning Fellowship, which has proved of great service in promoting the study of Archæology. For some years the interest accruing, amounting formerly to £40, and of late to about £30, has been paid to Mr Romilly Allen, for the purpose of obtaining drawings and photographs for the great work on the Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, which he and Dr Joseph Anderson were appointed to edit in 1893, and which, I am glad to be able to say, is now approaching completion.

Last year the Gunning Fellowship was conferred on Mr Coles, with the view of his investigating and planning the remarkable group of Stone Circles near Banchory. His Report will be presented in the course of this session, and I shall only say of his investigation that in one case, by a slight excavation, he discovered that a circle which has hitherto been supposed to be single, is in reality double. This is an apt illustration of the advantage of combining excavation with the external examination of field remains. How many vain theories have been started as to the origin and purpose of stone circles from a mere surface examination, which might never have been started, or at least would have been held in check, by a revelation of what was below the surface!