peeblesshire-1967-vol-1/03_019

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SEVENTEENTH REPORT

of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

MAY IT PLEASURE YOUR MAJESTY, -
We, Your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient
and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the con-
temporary culture, civilisation and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the
earliest times to the year 1707, and such further Monuments and Constructions of a date
subsequent to that year as may seem in our discretion worthy of mention therein, and to
specify those which seem most worthy of preservation, humbly present to Your Majesty
the Report on the Ancient Monuments of Peeblesshire, being the Seventeenth Report on
the work of the Commission since its first appointment.
2. We record with grateful respect the receipt of the gracious message that accompanied
Your Majesty's acceptance of the volume embodying our Sixteenth Report with Inventory
of the Ancient Monuments of Stirlingshire.
3. We have to thank Your Majesty for the appointment of Professor K. H. Jackson,
Litt.D., D.Litt., D.Litt.Celt., F.B.A., under Your Majesty's Royal Sign Warrant of 28th
October 1963, and for the appointment of Professor G. Donaldson, Ph.D., D.Litt., under
Your Majesty's Royal Sign Warrant of 7th May, 1964.
4. It is with great regret that we have to record the loss suffered by the Commis-
sion through the death, in May, 1963, of Professor W. Croft Dickinson, C.B.E., M.C.,
D.Lit., LL.D., for many years our valued advisor on problems concerned with Scottish
history.
We have further to deplore the loss of an esteemed colleague in Professor Sir Ian Richmond,
C.B.E., Litt.D., D.Lit., LL.D., F.B.A., P.S.A., who died in October, 1965, when the
Peeblesshire Inventory was already in the press. He had given unstinted service to the
Commission since his appointment in 1944, and his wise counsel and profound knowledge of
Roman archaeology were of the greatest help to us in the prosecution of our work.
5. Following our usual practice we have prepared a detailed, illustrated Inventory of the
Ancient Monuments of Peeblesshire, which under the advice of the Lords Commissioners of
Your Majesty's Treasury will be issued as a non-Parliamentary publication.
6. Peeblesshire is particularly rich in prehistoric remains of the 2nd and 1st millennia
B.C., and the survey has disclosed several previously unrecognised categories of habitation
sites, cemeteries and barrows, as well as large numbers of unrecorded examples of other

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