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xxxiv -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

British and late Celtic sites, the bronze tweezers (fig. C.) which came
from the broch of Kettleburn (No. 588), the Roman pottery and glass

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FIG. C. - Bronze Tweezers from the Broch of Kettleburn (4 1/2 inches in length).
Front and side views.

from the Keiss brochs, and the occasional objects of iron, all bear out
this conclusion. Included among the relics are querns both rotary
and of the saddle type (fig. D.), whorls for the spindle, and round
objects of stone probably weights for the loom, stone mortars and

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FIG. D. - Rubbing-stones, Querns, Stone Vessels, Pivot stone, etc., from the
"Road Broch," Keiss.

pounding stones, lamps and drinking cups of stone, two pins of bronze
of similar type (the one from Bowermadden (fig. E.), the other from
Nybster), each having a fixed annular head on a short, right-angled
projection from the stalk, a ring and an armlet of bronze, an iron
spearhead, which came from the broch of Dunbeath (No. 215),
and a few fragments of iron knives which came from the broch of
Yarrows. With regard to the last two items, it must be observed
that neither the position nor depth at which the spearhead was found
is noted, nor is it stated whether the fragments of knives came from
the actual broch or the secondary structures around it. Specially
noteworthy are a number of quartzite pebbles of ovoid shape, painted