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Archæological and historical collections relating to Ayrshire & Galloway (1878)

Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association · Edinburgh, Printed for the Ayrshire and Galloway archæological association · leaf 89

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LS, By the kindness of Mrs. Maitland of Freugh, I am enabled to give acut, full size, of the half of a torque of gold which was found in Stoneykirkparish about forty years ago (Fig. 30). The finder kept one half forhimself and brought the other to the Laird. The half here representedweighs 3f… … Fig. 30. Full size. specimen of primitive art should have been mutilated in such a barbarousway. On the farm of Boreland, in Old Luce parish, there was turned up,several years ago, by the plough, what was described to me as the handle ofa jug of gold. It was sold to a watchmaker in Stranraer, and…

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