Articles

The Continuing Decline of the Rook in Dumfriesshire: Results of the 2008 Centenary Census
by L.R. Griffin, D. Skilling, R.T. Smith and J.G. Young
1

Extracts from the Notebook of the late James H Wilson: A Glencaple Wildfowler, 1872–1947
by John G Young
31

An Enclosure and other features at Evan Road, Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway
by Lindsay J. Dunbar
41

Brittonic Place-names from South-West Scotland, Part 8: Sark
by Andrew Breeze
49

A possible Discoid Gravemarker at Kirkconnel Lea
by George Thomson
51

Another Look at Bagimond
by Alex Maxwell Findlater
59

Hoddom: A Mediaeval Estate in Annandale
by Alex Maxwell Findlater
77

The Statistical Accounts
by A.E. MacRobert
83

The Development of Cally Designed Landscape
by Nic Coombey
95

Sir Herbert Maxwell: Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1908–1934
by Jane Murray
115

Addenda Antiquaria

An Observation of Kirkcudbright’s Town Wall
by David Devereux
136

A Concealed Sock from Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire
by John Pickin
138

A Bog Body from Leswalt, Wigtownshire
by John Pickin
140

A Grooved Stone Tool from Wanlock head — Loom-weight or Prehistoric Mining Hammer?
by John Pickin
141

Reviews

St Ninian and the Earliest Christianity in Scotland: Review of a Lecture Day in Whithorn
reviewed by Jane Murray
144

Place and memory: Excavations at the Pict’s Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994–8, ed. by Julian Thomas and From Cairn to Cemetery: An Archaeological Investigation of the Chambered Cairns and early Bronze Age mortuary deposits at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn, South-west Scotland by Vickie Cummings and Chris Fowler
reviewed by Jane Murray
145

We Will Remember Them: Kirkcudbright’s Sons (1939–1945) by Ian Devlin
reviewed by Alastair Gair
150

Kirkcudbright Shipping 1200–2005 by David R Collin
reviewed by James Copland
150

Obituaries

Duncan Adamson
152

Francis John Stewart
153

Proceedings
156