tal or
pottery as they might find; to support their theories, or to serve other
private and obscure ends.

Thus, at Langbank, were found a bronze brooch, and a "Late Celtic" (200
B.C.?--A.D.) comb. These, of course, upset the theory held by some
inquirers, that the site was Neolithic, that is, was very much earlier
than the Christian era. If the excavators held that theory, and were
unscrupulous, was it not as easy for them to conceal the objects which
disproved the hypothesis, as to insert the disputed objects--which do not
prove it?

Of course Dr. Munro nowhere suggests that any excavator is the guilty
"faker."

I now quote Dr. Munro's account of the _unfamiliar_ objects alleged to
have been found in Dunbuie. He begins by citing the late Mr. Adam
Millar, F.S.A.Scot., who described Dunbuie in the _Proceedings S. A.
Scot._ (vol. XXX. pp. 291-308.)

"The fort," writes Mr. Millar, "has been examined very thoroughly by
picking out the stones in the interior one by one, and riddling the
fine soil and small stones. The same treatment has been applied to
the refuse heap which was found on the outside, and the result of the
search is a very remarkable collection of weapons, implements,
ornaments, and figured stones." There is no description of the
precise position of any of these relics in the ruins, with the
exception of two upper stones of querns and a limpet shell having on
its inner surface the presentation of a human face, which are stated
to have been found in the interior of the fort. No objects of metal
or fragments of pottery were discovered in course of the excavations,
and of bone there were only two small pointed objects and an awl
having a perforation at one end. The majority of the following worked
objects of stone, bone, and shell are so remarkable and archaic in
character that their presence in a fort, which cannot be placed
earlier than the Broch period, and probably long after the departure
of the Romans from North Britain, has led some archaeologists to
question their genuineness as relics of any phase of Scottish
civilisation.

OBJECTS OF STONE.--Nine spear-heads, like arrow-points, of slate, six
of which have linear patterns scratched on them. Some are perforated
with round holes, and all were made by grinding and polishing. One
object of slate, shaped like a knife, was made by chipping. "This
knife," says Mr. Millar,