REV R G S ANDERSON (1867 - 1939)
R G S Anderson was born at Ceres in Fife in 1867. After
training as a minister he worked in Canada, the Isle of Man and
Glasgow. He moved to Wigtownshire in 1919 and was minister to
the United Free Churches at the Isle of Whithorn and Castle
Kennedy.
Anderson, like many ministers of his generation, had a keen
interest in archaeology and built up a large collection of
antiquities. Some items were donated to the National Museum
of Antiquities (now part of National Museums Scotland) in Edinburgh
but the majority were kept at Anderson's home. On his death
in 1939 the collection was bequeathed to Wigtownshire County
Council where it formed the nucleus of Stranraer Museum.
The bulk of the Anderson collection comprises archaeological
finds from Wigtownshire. The stone axes, lithics and Bronze
Age metalwork are particularly significant. There is also
some non-local archaeological material, including flints from the
Isle of Man, Roman material from Silchester, an inscribed clay
brick from Babylon and, bizarrely, fragments of stone from both the
Sphinx and the Great Pyramid.
Anderson also acquired items of local folk life. Objects
of this type in the collection include witch and charm stones,
stone butter weights and a drover's staff.
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