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With the exception of my writing table, and
another table or two for my own & my typists
use, all the furniture has been removed
from our building.
We have now commenced work at Dunpender
Law and are finding many objects of interest.
We began on 6th. inst. and Cree is giving
personal & daily supervision for the month,
In June Mr J.G.A. Baird takes control, and
in July Mr Craw and young Murray. I
shall go there once a week to help and see
how matters are progressing. By this ar:
:rangement we shall always have some
one on the spot to direct the workmen.
Already we have found several good relics,
an iron spear head, a spiral bronze ring,
a bronze terret, a bronze dress fastener, a
bronze pin, a pierced hinge plate,
much pottery including a good many pieces
of Samian ware, a segment of a yellow glass
armlet, two segments of jet or lignite, a yellow
bead, a lead whorl, a playing-man of stone,
a glass ball inset with enamel colour.
The structural remains are most difficult
to make anything of, but in one hut site
we have clearly evidence of three occupations

but all the relics in it have belonged to the
?second & first. In the latest occupation much use was
made of large blocks of stone set on end or on
edge and so far we have found no remains of
actual building. The place has been so large
that it is more than probable we shall find
sites that have only had single occupations,
whereas if the enceinte had been smaller each
occupation might have made full use of the
whole area.
On Friday I am going to Skye to assist
Callander for a week in his survey of the
Ancient Mons. [Monuments] I have no doubt I can be of
use from my experience, and as a Member
of the Royal Commission, I get my holiday
for nothing.
The floors of the two cellars have all been
cemented and shelving put up around the
inner one. We have been busy all day
taking all the collection of rubbish which
formerly lay in a muddle all over the place
into it. What a collection it is - boxes & boxes
of stones, bones, old shoes, Roman pottery, orien:
:tal idols etc. We are going to have cupboards
all round the outer cellar & racks in the centre
of it, which will give us proper accommodation that
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