Remarks on a bronze implement, and bones of the ox and dog, found in a bed of undisturbed gravel at kinleith, near Currie, Mid-Lothian / by John Alex. Smith.

Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks on a bronze implement, and bones of the ox and dog, found in a bed of undisturbed gravel at kinleith, near Currie, Mid-Lothian / by John Alex. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    REMARKS, &G. Locality.—A little to the east of the village of Currie, and rather more than five miles to the west of Edinburgh, the Water of Leith receives on its right bank the streamlet of the Kinleith Burn, which flows in a rapid though short course from the Pentland Hills imme- diately to the south. Below the junction of the Kinleith Burn, the narrow valley of the Water of Leith gradually becomes wider, and opens into an oval-shaped haugh of tolerably level land, measuring altogether some 8 or 10 acres; and, at the lower extremity of this valley, where the banks on each side again approach the stream, the bed of the river, as the Ordnance Survey Map informs us, is 400 feet above the level of the sea. The Water of Leith runs along the northern border of tbe haugh just referred to ; and on the level part of the ground are situated the paper mills of Kinleith, about midway between the stream and the sloping bank, which bounds the valley on the south. The engine chimney rises at the south side of the works, and from its prominent position in the gorge of the little valley, it has on two different occasions been struck and partially injured by lightning; in consequence of which the proprietor,. Mr Henry Bruce, deter- mined last summer to build a new chimney, a little to the south and east of tho^old one. For this purpose, a circular space of ground, about 23 feet in diameter, was marked out on the green turf of the level haugh, at a distance of 293 feet from the present bed of the stream; and the process of excavation commenced. The superficial vegetable mould was first cut through and removed' when finely laminated beds of sand and clay were exposed- in some places the former, in others the latter being most abundant. [Specimens of the pure sand, and clay, were exhibited.] Section of Beds.-These beds of sand and clay measured from 5