Articles

Notes on the Old Fur Market of Dumfries
by Derek Skilling
1

Some Notes on the Name ‘Ninian’
by Henry Gough-Cooper
5

The Partition of a Kingdom: Strathclyde 1092–1153
by J.G. Scott
11

Kenmure Castle
by Alastair M.T. Maxwell-Irving
41

The Tower-Houses of Kirtleside
by Alastair M.T. Maxwell-Irving
55

Crime and Punishment in 17th and 18th Century Records of Dumfries — Part I
by Marion M. Stewart
69

Some Notes on the Old Military Road in Dumfries and Galloway
by Alex D. Anderson
79

The Development of Kirkcudbright in the late 18th Century — Town Planning in a Galloway Context
by D.E. Marsden
89

John Walker, an 18th Century Naturalist — His life and times in the rural parish of Moffat
by Dr. George Thomson
97

Addenda Antiquaria

Two Late Mesolithic Sites in the Luce Bay Area
by P.J. Cherry and J. Cherry
109

Two Polished Flint Knives from Galloway
by John Pickin
110

Extracts from Dumfries Burgh Court Records
by A.E. Truckell
112

Four Annandale Medical Men
by J.B. Wilson
115

Lochmaben’s Sham and Pretended Councils
by J.B. Wilson
117

Reviews

Excavations at Navan Fort 1961–71 by the late D. M. Waterman, completed and edited by Chris Lynn
reviewed by W.F. Cormack
119

Discovering Galloway by Innes Macleod
reviewed by James Williams
120

Sir William Burrell’s Northern Tour, 1758 edited by John G. Dunbar
reviewed by W.F. Cormack
121

Obituary

Professor Anne S. Robertson (W. F. Cormack)
122

Proceedings 1996–1997
123

List of Members and Subscribers
124