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FRSGS, CORE. MEM. Soo. ANT. SOOT. During September 1911 My 4 26 PROCEEDING SOCIETYE TH F O S , MAKC , 191211 H . III. ARCHAEOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM . CASH G KILLIN . C ,Y B . F.R.S.G.S., CORE. MEM. Soo. ANT. SOOT. During September 1911 my wife and I spent some holiday time at Society'e th d ha Killin se reportPerthshire W th . n o s e Stone Circles, and also archaeologica . J Eomilll r paperM y b s Alien r HugD , h Macmillan. HaggartD r M whicn d i , an ,note e har d e antisomth f -eo quitiee districtth visitee f o sW . d severae placeth d thingf o lan s s therein described reporw r additionano ou td an , l gleanings. 1." Dochart Bridge.— f Killi o e wesAt e maid th nth en t n road crosses the river Dochart by a stone bridge of two main arches. The bridge t builstraighta i sno n i t , line acros rivere st th make bu , slighsa t ogee curve whicr fo , h evideno thern s i e t reason. Just abov e bridgeth e streae th mdivides i westere th y db nislane parth f Inchbuidhf do o t , on whic s builh i e maith t n centra e bridgel northere th pie f Th o r . n channel is by far the more important, the southern one running only when the river is fairly high. Each arch carries on its eastern face a carved stone dating panel; the north one has under a crown the date e undes th ha soute d 183 e coronea th r an 0hon ; . B lettere . th t E . sI date 1760. It is curious that the letters and the figures 17 are carved in relief, but the figures 60 are incised. ' In the west face of the north arch are fixed two large nails, showing the height to which the water reached in two notable floods. 2. The McNab Salmon Trap.—As has been said, the southern channe Dochare th f o l t Killia t n bridge usually passe t littlsbu e water. rathes i t I r narrow acrosd bees an , s uppeha s it n d builen r wala t f o l very large blocks of stone, some of them secured by iron bars. The result of this arrangement is that when the river is in spate any salmon AECH^OLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM KILLIN. 265 that are then able to ;ascend the southern channel are stopped by the wall, and can easily be caught when the spate is over. e McTh Nab . 3 Burying-Ground. e maiTh n — centrae l th pie f o r bridge stands alreads a , yislane saidth Inchbuidhf n w do o , lo t a d an , wate possibls i t i r walo et k unde northere th r nbridge arcth d f ho ean gain access to the main part of the island, which is down stream from the bridge. This island contains the burial-ground of the McNabs. In the " good old days " the McNabs were the dominant race of this par Perthshirof t e; thei housold r Kinnelof e l still stands, though modernised ; and their deeds, especially the fierce deeds of " Smooth " John, for ma notabl e locae th parth f l o w tlegendary no t Bu . districte th n i Mt , thougcno Nab e t ar stimeha s partie thef so m visit the scenes of the former greatness of their clan. Their burial-place, however, remain Inchbuidhn o s romantica d an , , pathetic, somewhat melancholy plac. is t ei The usua la littl e islanaccesy th b e s o flighdi t s f stono t e steps down from the east side of the bridge. The whole island is perhaps about two hundred and fifty yards long. The surface of the western section is partly rock and partly mossy turf, and is all low-lying. massivNeao stepe tw rth e sear stone pillars littla d e an ,beyon d them a high wall stretches acros e islandth s , having three open archways e easterf thio th st d sectionA nen . it ,n i some seventy yards from the bridge, the level suddenly rises, and at the rise there is an earthen mound some five feet high, right across, quite suggesting an intention of defence e middlTh . e sectioe islandth f o n , some hundred an d thirty yard length n si highese th s i ,pathwae t th part d an ,y alon, git deep in turf and moss, has somewhat the character of an avenue. At its east end there stretches a ditch with an inner earthen rampart beyond, right across, again suggesting defensiv editche workth n ,I . and in front of the bank, is an imperfect and broken dry-stone dyke, and through an opening in this we enter the third section of the island, some sixty yards long, the burial-ground proper. 6 26 PROCEEDING SOCIETYE TH F O S , MARC , 191211 H . Near the western end of this section is a walled enclosure within which the McNab chiefs used to be buried. The east and west walls have each on {he top one of those curious busts so common in ancient Scottish burial-grounds e heath ; d wit a hfla a heavyt d facan e, short bag-wige outside westh th n f tO o ea walbroke . s i d l an n badly mended marble slab in memory of a M°Nab who died in military servic n Spaini e . Withi e enclosureth n , onle stonon y e has a legible inscription, and that is a century old. The most interesting stone is a flat-lying one, with a curiously rude carving of a life-size image of a man, seemingly dressed in the kilt. The other stones are rough slabs, one having a round hole drilled through d anothean , it r bearing obscure carving something like what heralds cal "a l mill-rind." walle easTothe the of td enclosur graveordinarthe the of seare y members of the clan. Many grave-mounds can be seen, and some of them have rough stone slabs laid on them. Two stones stand erect. One centura , y old, bear grime verssa th f e,o ill-measured, admonitory kind, so often occurring on old tombstones. The other, a small one, has on its back a cherub, two crossed spades, a coffin, and the date 1776 s facIt e. bear inscriptione sth , " Hear lay core Patricf sth o s k M°Na Taylon bi Aucharnn ri dieo w ,d 1777. datese spellingTh e "th , , and the first " in " are curious. A visi thio t t s burial-ground, besides the. sadness natura placa o t l e of burial, gives also a feeling of regret at the failure and disappearance oa claf n once strong, though thid e landfierceth sAn n feelin.i , s gi intensified by the lack of care for the preservation of the memorials. The stones are moss- and turf-covered; the inscriptions, where any existed, have becom becomine ar r o e g illegible. transic "Si t gloria mundi." And as if to emphasise the lesson, the old kitchen range and cooking-pots from Kinnell House have been set up within a wooden frame in the middle section of the island, where, under the destructive influenc f exposuro e e weatherth o t e , they willone er l g ARCHAEOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM KILLIN. 267 soirejoie th l thosn ni e whom perchance they daye serveth s n i thad t moreo n e .ar 4. Kinnell Stone Circle. — This has been properly reported in the Proceedings, vol. xliv I mentio .tha y orden t sa i consisti t t o ni t r s "e seve th stones x f o o si eighfr nt o no ,t " mentione Macmillanr D y db , and that after careful search we could not find the cup-marks he reports there. Scale o( Pig . Cup-marke1 . d Ston Mid-Lin eo x Farm. Cup-marked5 Stone Killinn o Shooting Range. — Thireportes wa s d Alier figured M an 1882n ni havo seeme y t b d H t e. no srecognise d fully that the stone lies on the site of an obvious croft. The sites of house, garden, and cultivated field are all quite plain on the ground, stone th ed liean house soute s th justh f heo o t site, practicalls it t ya door. Dr Macmillan reported in 1884 the former use of the large " cu "pa knockin'-stane.s "a " 6. Cup-marked Stone on Mid-Lix Farm (fig. 1). — In 1882 or 1883 this was reported to Mr Alien by Mr Haggart ; it was shown to _me 268 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MARCH 11, 1912. by Mr Haggart. It lies about 100 yards south of the railway, and 20 yard e sGle th eas triangulanf w o tOgl lo a e s i roadr t I pyrami. d; wese th tn o facecupe e th s,ar whic hangln a lie about f sea o t 35°d ,an measures 5 feet across its base, and just over 3 feet along its median line. It carries twenty-one cups, as shown in the figure. One cup has roun rina t di g 6J inche diametern si cupe Th s .var diameten yi r from 2J to 3 inches, and in depth from 4 to f inch. In his paper on " Cup-marked Stones near Aberfeldy," rea 1884n di r MacmillaD , n t knosaino wd a singl di tha e eh t exampl a concentri f o e c ring round a cup on the stones found on the shores of Loch Tay or in Glendochart or Glen Lochay.
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