Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...making the railway near Fochabers, Elginshire.--Trea-sure Trove, 1873. 4. Two Penannular Rings or Arm lets, with slightly expanded ends, found under a tumulus at Alloa. Purchased 1828. 5. Two large and three small Penan nular Rings, found in an urn, on the estate of the Earl of Fife, in Gold Ornament, 7 in. diameter. (F 2.) Banffshire.--Earl of Fife, 1832. 6. Two Penannular Rings and Circular Capsule of penannular form, found in a moss in the West Highland's in 1856.--P. Denny, Dumbarton, 1857. 7. Large thick Penannular Ring or Armlet, found at Bonnyside, Stirling share.--Treasure Trove, 1852. 8. Tore Armlet or Neck Ring, being a thin twisted band, with recurved ends, found at Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire.--Purchased 1851. 9. Tore Armlet or Neck Ring, being a thin twisted band, with recurved ends, found in a " Pictish Burg" at the head of Little Lochbroom, Ross-shire.--Hugh Mackenzie of Ardross, 1860. 10. Two Tore Armlets or Neck Rings, and two Armlets of smaller size, formed of a thin band of gold spirally twisted, with recurved ends, found with thirty others near a tumulus at Urquhart, Elginshire.--Rev. Henry Walker, 1857. 11. Cast of a Tore or Twisted Band, with recurved ends, probably an armlet, found on the moor of Rannoch, Perthshire. 12. Cast of a Tore of two thick wires, spirally twisted, about 4 feet long, with long recurved and solid ends, found at Slateford, Edinburghshire. 13. Small Ring, about an inch diameter, of plaited wires, found in a moss in the island of Fladda Chuinn, one of the Hebrides.--Purchased 1851. 14. Six small Rings of plaited wires, Penannular Ring an inch in diameter, two portions of Rings, and two rounded oblong pieces of Gold cut at the ends, found in the ruins of ancient structures in the...