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14 to fragments by the stroke of a shovel. Further to the eastward, two at least, and probably more, bronze celts of large size were found, along with a small cup or lamp of symmetrical form, and ornamented with a uniform pattern. In the same locality, five bronze swords, said to be the finest of the kind ever found in Scotland, have also been unearthed.

In January 1895, a-stone cist was discovered close to the North British Railway Station, Portobello (south side), at a depth of about three feet, built of stone slabs evidently split for the purpose, 44 by 47 inches inside, with two large stones covering it. Nothing was found but a little calcined clay matter and an accumulation of sand, which had filtered in.

We have a curious reference in a charter of Kelso Abbey, granted about 1466, to a cairn of stones which stood near the south-east corner of the garden wall at Mount Lodge, Portobello. In the charter, where it is referred to as forming part of the boundary of the lands of Figgate, it is described as "a certain heap of stones there deposited.” It has long since disappeared, but it must have been of considerable size, and in all probability marked the site of an ancient place of sepulture.