Articles

Ostracods from the West Moat at Caerlaverock Castle
by Mervin Kontrovitz and Huw I. Griffiths
1

The Reverend William Little (1797?–1867), A Preliminary Account of his Entomological Activities
by E. Geoffrey Hancock, Ronald M. Dobson and James Williams
5

Punt Gunning for Wildfowl and Waders
by John Young
17

Excavation of an Iron Age Round House and Associated Palisaded Enclosure at Whitecrook Quarry, Glenluce
by Douglas Gordon et al.
23

Rosnat, Whithorn and Cornwall
by Andrew Breeze
43

A Note on the Dating of Barhobble Chapel Bones and the Historical Context of their Deposition
by Richard Oram
51

'A Loop in the Forth is Worth an Earldom in the North' — The Rediscovery of Scotland's Monastic Landscapes: Monastic Granges in Dumfriesshire and Galloway
by Derek Hall
55

Evidences for 'Lost' Thirteenth-Century Enclosure/Courtyard Castles in S W Scotland: An Overview Assessment and Survey
by Richard Smith
67

The Origin of the Irvings
by Alastair Maxwell-Irving
81

Glenstocken, Gutcher's Island, Colvend
by Jane Brann, Nic Coombey and Geoffrey Stell
91

Smuggling and Kirkcudbright Merchant Companies in the Eighteenth Century
by Frances Wilkins
105

'Mokisins', 'Cloaks' and 'A Belt of Peculiar Fabric': Recovering the History of the Thomas Whyte Collection of North American Clothing formerly in the Grierson Museum
by Alison Brown
131

The Birtwhistles of Galloway and Craven: Drovers, Industrialists, Writers and Spies
by Tony Stephens
151

Strolling Players, Minstrels and Living People: Entertainers in Galloway and in Dumfries 1861–1871
by Innes Macleod
181

'I have the Prospect of going to Galloway': the Rev Walter Gregor and the Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom
by Stephen Miller
211

Addenda Antiquaria

A Neolithic Roughout Axehead from Dunragit
by John Pickin
225

The Lochenkit Moor Covenanters — a Newly Discovered Account of a 'Killing Times' Incident
by David F. Devereux
229

Kirk Sessions as Bridge Builders — Lochfoot and Twynholm
by Alex Anderson and James Williams
232

Elshieshiels Records
by Dr J.B. Wilson
238

Walter Newall and Moffat Baths (now Moffat Town Hall)
by Antony Wolff
239

Reviews

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, by James E. Fraser and From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, by Alex Woolf.
Volumes 1 and 2 of The New Edinburgh History of Scotland
reviewed by Andrew Breeze
243

Obituary

Rev David Edward Marsden MA, BA, DPS (1929–2009)
245

Proceedings
246

Revised Rules of the Society
253