The Eev. J. M. Joass has kindly sent to me this bronze blade (now exhibited), which was recently found in a cabinet at Dunrobin, where it had been laid carefully aside and forgotten. From a note attached to it, however, Mr Joass has no doubt it is the " dagger" blade described by the Eev. John Mackenzie, in his account of the parish of Eogart, Sutherland, in 1834, which was published in the "New Statistical Account of Scotland," vol. xv., Edinburgh, 1845. The Eev. Mr Mackenzie refers to it as

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... llows:-"Tradition accords with the rude but certain monuments of battles, in showing that Eogart was in past times the scene of violent contests, and of much bloodshed. A ridge of hills crossing the eastern extremity of the parish from north to south, and extending from Strathbrora to Strathfleet, is covered with tumuli, which appear to have been thrown over the slain where they fell. One of these was opened lately by dykers erecting a fence around the glebe, having no idea that they invaded the resting-place of a warrior, probably of an ancestor. They found in the centre of it a stone coffin, containing mouldered bones, and the blade of a dirk or short dagger, which seemed to have been wielded by the hand of some leader, being of a more costly description than the common 1. Bronze Blade found in a tumulus at Rogart, Sutherland. (Actual size.) 2. Section across blade.