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High Gillespie had found some object of
interest in digging a drain I cautiously
interrogated his wife who produced three
nice socketed & looped celts of bronze all
found together on the farm 4’ below the
surface. The finder believes there were more
but did not attach any importance to them
when he found them. I got him to let me
take them away on the understanding
that Dr. [Doctor] Anderson could make him an
offer for them which he would be free to
refuse if he thought insufficient. He
was evidently pleasantly surprised when
I suggested that they might be worth £2 or £3. [£2.0.0. or £3.0.0.].
Across the Gillespie burn below the shepherd’s
house and a few hundred yards higher up
the stream on the left bank and on a
natural terrace on the side of Craignargit
Hill are a large number of small cairn-
-like heaps of stones and what appear
to be the remains of a few small circular
huts. Over the whole area are the ruins
of old enclosing walls and some of the
cairn like heaps may have been formed of
stones gathered from cultivated plots.
At the same level on the hill side about

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