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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

All the parishes, numbering twenty-four, have provided monuments of
one kind or another. The largest class consists of the seventy-one monuments
which may be grouped as prehistoric, including fortified sites, stone-circles and
cairns ; while the castellated and domestic structures amount to fifty-four,
the ecclesiastical to twenty-nine, and the other items are fragmentary or of minor
types.
In spite of financial and other difficulties Your Majesty's Commissioners
have been able to continue, though on a reduced scale, their survey of monu-
ments in the Western Isles, a part of their work to which they attach particular
importance. They hope to be placed in a position to complete this section
within a short time.
Your Commissioners would express their gratification at the selection to
fill one of the vacancies in their number of Dr. George Macdonald, whose
eminence in the field of Roman Archæology in Britain is well known.
Your Majesty's Commissioners desire in concluding their Report to record
their appreciation of the thorough manner in which Mr. W. Mackay Mackenzie
has carried out his duties as Secretary to the Commission. Not only has he
performed the clerical and editorial work but with the co-operation of one
or other of the architects, Mr. Watson and Mr. Calder, to whom also special
commendation is due, he has personally conducted the survey of monuments
in the Outer Hebrides under unusually disagreeable conditions of weather and
transport. They would remark further that all photographs in the Inventories,
with the exception of the few attributed to other sources, are the work of
members of the Staff.
The issue of the present volume has been delayed by the necessity of
incorporating the results of excavations made at Dirleton Castle and Tantallon
by Your Majesty's Office of Works. Your Commissioners note with satisfaction
that these historic structures have now passed under the control of that
Department and are being put into a condition which will ensure their
preservation.

HERBERT MAXWELL, Chairman.
THOMAS ROSS.
G. BALDWIN BROWN.
ALEXR. O. CURLE.
THOMAS H. BRYCE.
GEO. MACDONALD.
W. MACKAY MACKENZIE, Secretary.

EDINBURGH, 30th June, 1924.

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